Dry Lakes Racers Australia

I've just got back to Bris Vegas after 2 weeks holidays with the wife and kids down in Sydney. I got out to Big Gaz's for a short visit and took a few more pictures for an update. Whenever I go into the shed that the Shaguar is in I'm blown away by how low the car is. So this time I got Gaz to stand...

Doc I'm currently on holidays back in Sydney trying to get myself across to Big Gaz's to get some work done on the Shaguar. I've got some more pictures showing off the cage work and with one of the salt tyres mocked in position to check ride height / tub sizing / diff width / how tough it looks. IT ...

Rev What's with the Jaguar comments? I hope you are not suggesting anything improper about the "Shaguar"??? BTW - Big Gaz and I are well along the path of production of a quality line of merchandise celebrating what will hopefully be a triumphant and blemish free trip to the salt in '07 (f...

Rev I last heard the engine fire up over 10 years ago when it was in Gaz's Falcon 2 door "Ovakil" - some old blokes out there may remember it - it sounded pretty good back then and that was with mufflers. We'll have to invest in earplugs as the car will have no mufflers at all, and nowhere...

Big Gaz has sent some more pictures through so I've posted a few more up. They show some of the progress on the rollcage. The first photo shows the cage from the front of the engine looking back into the car: http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i218/falcon351/47.jpg You can see the steering wheel has ...

Keith

I read somewhere that you are now a member of the 200 club everywhere except Oz. You still bringing the "junk" Camaro down for a run?

Lynchy

I was down in Sydney last week to help Big Gaz out with the roll cage of the Shaguar. I hadn’t seen the car mocked up at ride height till then and let me tell you it is really @#$%en low! The roof of the car comes up to just under my belly button, or for those who prefer real dimensions 40 inches ta...

I bought a few salt lake related books while in Sydney last week. One of them "Bonneville - The fastest place on earth" has a picture of a guy (Dr Allan Abott) and his pushy. In 1973 he was towed up to 50 mph and then pedalled like a demon up to 138.674 mph. Of course he did it behind a ca...

Wanna The auction is a truly unique event presided over by "Animal". Animal auctions off a range of quality merchandise and some crap as well while dancing around in his undies. This is typical behaviour for Animal as he spends the whole of Speed Week in his jocks alone (although this year I saw him...

It's amazing what can be achieved with the correct safety gear...

Chris

Congrats on the new job - Don told me that you have recently picked it up. Glad to hear it's a Ford team!!

DD Does this help? Using high octane fuel for an engine makes a difference when the engine is producing its maximum power. This will occur when the intake manifold has no air restriction and is running at minimum vacuum. Depending on the engine design, this particular circumstance can be anywhere al...

Dirty

Yeah - I was just being a dick. I'll see if I can find anything out. It may be a subject similar to header design though..... very hard to find the right answer / very hard to find a decent starting point.

Rev I found a website a while back that looked to hold some promise: m You can register to gain access to a header design calculator that would likely be useful if you have a fair degree of info for your engine. It also contains some good theory. I've found some other calculators but they require mu...

Rev I think Don has the most correct answer. There is no way on the Jag to route the pipes any way apart from out the side of the car behind the front wheel but ahead of the door. The car will be tooooo low to do this any other way. So my answer to Big Gaz was get the primaries right and then the se...