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[rexy]

Pigeon pair.

 

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A proper race car with a proper engine.

Interesting strut work.

 

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Green

 

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Shineys favourite green

 

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Green

 

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[rexy]

More mother trucking green

 

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Better cos its got more black?

 

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Australia, you can do better.

 

Like this!

 

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[rexy]

Not really a colour?

 

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Again, better with more black?

And it being a hatch of course.

 

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[rexy]

The top 60 hall is always interesting. Its a terrible place to take pics with lots of glare from peoples staged displays.

 

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Spectacular colour

 

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Orange really is the king of colours.

 

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You could even win this one.

 

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[Shiney005]

Offset smoke stack through the hood so presumably a 4 or 6 cyl consumer of the fuel of Satan.

Mercedes OM 606 engine. Nissan front and rear ends too.  The car isn't finished yet, but I love it.

 

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[rexy]

Thought my tubbed vh sle was decent untill it lost rego....confused how some have rego again

 

You just need to find the right people to deal with. Finding them is the hard part.

I would suggest finding the equivalent of MPW who is close to you.

[RallyRed]

Great  pics and report.    Those HP  numbers are just insane....can only imagine the stresses in the engine, must be 99.9% on the verge of splitting  bores, bustin' cranks etc etc.  Regardless,amazing numbers!!

[Shiney005]

Watch the youtube videos of them Col. They are on a hub dyno and you wont believe how high they climb up on the suspension. If they keep going up in horsepower, you are going to see a catastrophic suspension / chassis / body failure.

[RallyRed]

Yeah mate, one  of those hub machines had a failure , or as you say, the  car has  one,  there'd be stuff everywhere.

[Ice]

Yeah mate, one  of those hub machines had a failure , or as you say, the  car has  one,  there'd be stuff everywhere.

What could possibly go wrong at 3500 HP on the dyno 

i wouldn’t be standing any where close to it 

[rexy]

Watch the youtube videos of them Col. They are on a hub dyno and you wont believe how high they climb up on the suspension. If they keep going up in horsepower, you are going to see a catastrophic suspension / chassis / body failure.

 

 

Great  pics and report.    Those HP  numbers are just insane....can only imagine the stresses in the engine, must be 99.9% on the verge of splitting  bores, bustin' cranks etc etc.  Regardless,amazing numbers!!

 

 

Yeah mate, one  of those hub machines had a failure , or as you say, the  car has  one,  there'd be stuff everywhere.

 

 

What could possibly go wrong at 3500 HP on the dyno 

i wouldn’t be standing any where close to it 

 

 

Gentlemen, there is no concern required!

 

Don't forget, these are not your mates stock 6 cylinder bodies with a hot SBC wedged in them. These are dedicated well engineered race cars. The stress on the suspension and drivetrain is less than they face in competition.

 

While there have been very occasional failures on the dyno at the nats they are usually related to transmissions or occasionally engines.

No one has ever been injured by flying dyno debris at the Nats to my knowledge. 

 

Even so, I am paranoid enough to be in front of the cars rather than beside them.

 

Summernats is a very safe event. In all of its years there has only been one trauma related death, the poor bloke who fell backwards out of a ute, hit his head and died. Way safer than your average night out at the pub or a night at home with your family in Melbourne…

 

This was the most impressive fail I witnessed.

 

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Jake Edwards promised to make 2000hp (I think?) with his SBC powered yellow box torana.

And he did!

 

He did however have a blow up so bad that Pinky was able to pick up the centre remnant of the Turbo impeller and do show and tell for the crowd. The oil smoke cloud was biblical.