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« Reply #2355 on: February 18, 2012, 08:51:25 PM »

Is it just the sheet metal that is off the car or does the body stick outside the inner plane?
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« Reply #2356 on: February 18, 2012, 08:59:37 PM »

Is it just the sheet metal thas is off the car or does the body stick outside the innerplane?

After careful consideration of that question , and having not seen the car in the flesh my answer would be "Divino"

EDIT:   I think you're right there Phoenix, seems we may still be the only folk running E/GL

EDIT 2: Just called the Colonel he is going to send a front-on shot, then I will be able to answer ....
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« Reply #2357 on: February 19, 2012, 04:04:28 PM »





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« Reply #2358 on: February 19, 2012, 04:07:15 PM »

So it uses a VW torsion bar front end
a Ford 9" differential
and a Ford inline cross flow six
It's interesting to be sure
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« Reply #2359 on: February 19, 2012, 05:17:29 PM »

How many days to go?
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« Reply #2360 on: February 19, 2012, 05:47:28 PM »

Good to see another Ozzy lakester pop up. Cross-flow 250's are a good breathing engine with lotsa good parts available but it looks like he's hurting in the aero department.
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« Reply #2361 on: February 19, 2012, 06:59:16 PM »

Good to see another Ozzy lakester pop up. Cross-flow 250's are a good breathing engine with lotsa good parts available but it looks like he's hurting in the aero department.
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Enlighten me on the 6 - is this based on the 170-200 ci?

Are the guys in the trailer that short, or is the car that tall?

Looks like you've got a classic Ford-Holden smackdown in the works. 

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« Reply #2362 on: February 19, 2012, 07:52:43 PM »

Enlighten me on the 6 - is this based on the 170-200 ci?
Are the guys in the trailer that short, or is the car that tall?
Looks like you've got a classic Ford-Holden smackdown in the works. 
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Yeah, it's a version of a motor they've been wringing the last drops out of for a good 45 years now.Those two guys could walk between your begs with a hat on Chris, no they aren't very tall.

Smackdown is an interesting word.I can quote Enzo Ferrari here " aerodynamics are for people who can't build engines" and say from what I'm looking at Greg is going to need a bigger, better built bullet than us, with a turbo and good head they can make serious power those things but naturally aspirated he's going to be struggling up the same hill we are.

He'll need four runs to get to 200 and break our record this year, then it would be a challenge, until then we'll just meander along the way we are and see him in 2013.

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« Reply #2363 on: February 19, 2012, 07:53:40 PM »

Good looking tanks thanks for the pictures. cheers
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« Reply #2364 on: February 19, 2012, 10:29:15 PM »

The old version non crossflow 200's & 250's were basically the US engine. The last of them were in the XB Falcons & had a cast-in intake & a 1 barrel carb. There was a hypo version of that called the 2V-250, it had a bolt on intake & a 2 barrel carb. Kind of a rare piece even back then. I ran a 65 XP Falcon hard top down there in the 80's with a 2V-250 & a blow through turbo, it could clean up a healthy 351 Cleveland.  XC Falcon was the first of the crossflow's with an Iron head. They changed the casting of the block to except this head design, which is actually a copy of the Cleveland canted valve design. XE was the first of the "aluminium" heads, XF was the start of the Bosch EFI.
Then I left home, so now you're on your own from here.
Gogg's & Co's engine is actually the Buick 3.8 as we know it.
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« Reply #2365 on: February 20, 2012, 03:00:49 AM »

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It's basically the motor out of a taxi cab

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I was working at a ford dealer when Australia changed to unleaded fuel
XE was the start of the Bosch Jetronic fuel injection
They had a limited production with camshafts made of a special cheesium alloy which showed up much quicker on the injected cars than the carburetted cars.  I changed a lot of cams on those piles of carp.
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« Reply #2366 on: February 20, 2012, 07:25:12 AM »

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A Monaro guy working in a Ford dealership, gotta put food on the table. angry
I never got brand locked, I just liked different. I built a lot of different engines for other peoples tastes back then. How about a turbo'd Kimberly engine in a Marina??
 I had an HG 350 for a while, until some one out at Castlereigh decided I shouldn't have it any more.
How long you had the HK?
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« Reply #2367 on: February 20, 2012, 07:48:21 AM »

I've had the HK for about 15 years
When I was at ford I had a VF Valiant Ute with a 327 chev in it
I took the motor out of my Datsun 1600 (510) cos it broke the body
My first car was a for XL Futura. It broke down at my Dads farm and was there until about two years ago when someone stole it
Also had a MkIII Zephyr. It met with an "accident". See if I can find the clip from the newspaper
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« Reply #2368 on: February 20, 2012, 04:31:11 PM »

You've definately messed with some different stuff.  cheers
I saw a MkIII here a few years ago. After all these years, they're a weird looking thing to me now.
Hiding in the barn at the end of the valley here I have a 70 R/T Coronet 440 Sublime car, a 70 R/T Challenger plumb crazy, a 70  Challenger Deputy 225 slant plumb crazy & some other less significant things. I figure if I need to go to Gairdner to go fast in the liner, they would buy my ticket.
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« Reply #2369 on: February 20, 2012, 05:15:45 PM »

I've had the HK for about 15 years
When I was at ford I had a VF Valiant Ute with a 327 chev in it
I took the motor out of my Datsun 1600 (510) cos it broke the body
My first car was a Ford XL Futura. It broke down at my Dads farm and was there until about two years ago when someone stole it
Also had a MkIII Zephyr. It met with an "accident". See if I can find the clip from the newspaper
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I have , of course, heard all of these stories before and mostly more than once. I still laugh on repeat hearings and even seeing them just then as a line of text I chuckled. I won't spoil his thunder about the Zephyr, but he was hung out to dry. I reckon you've had the HK for 12years G....I thought you got it when I was at Thornbury...the second time I saw it you did the Blues Brothers park out front.......
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