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Re: TOP TEN QUESTIONS VIRGIN GT40 NEWBIES SHOULDN\'T ASK- Is it an American or British car? Does a Chev SB motor fit? Can I build one on a VW chassis? How many suitcases can I fit in the boot? So what kind of Ferrari is this then? PS. To our friends who are not familiar…...

[ QUOTE ] have they actually sold any ?. [/ QUOTE ] They have in fact sold one to the US and another has been ordered for Jay Lenno I think. The builders however claim that the project was not about selling cars, but about promoting the skills of the organizations that went into its...

Looking great Bill. Might just have to find an hour or so this weekend to go over and see it in real life.

I enjoy watching the A1GP but don’t yet love it. I think it is still at its early stages and will need to find its niche as far as drivers are concerned. At the moment, the drivers don’t fit any real description. They are not, say, the best drivers in the world or the best drivers in their...

Clockwise turning on my valve results in less rear bias. The other thing to keep in mind is that in the main, a bias valve does not adjust the front rear ratio as such. These valves actually have two fixed ratios and adjustment merely changes the point at which one ratio kicks out and the...

Philip Island Historics?

There is no argument that the F40 is a significant step forward in aerodynamic design compared to the GT40, but is that a fair comparison? As a one-eyed GT40 fan, I would rather say that the GT40 was a significant step forward in aerodynamic design in its day, whereas the F40 just used a...

HERE is a hint. Get in ahead of Lotus themselves and show them that it can be done Everyone who I've spoken to that has had anything to do with the Lexus V8 has had nothing but good words to say. The bottom end , I have been told, is almost indestructable in standard trim.

Amazing. Absolute commitment in all the corners. If you know the track at all, you'll know that it’s no easy task even for the best of them. Not the first time he'd cleaned up at Bathurst though. He came the year before (I think) with a pair of Rover V8s. Took advantage of the newly introduced...

In his own words, he didn't care that he didn't fit in, so he won't care that he is now gone. Good riddance to him.

Geeeesssus… no point even trying to be inconspicuous in a GT40

Tim, You may be interested to know that your car and mine sat parked about 3 feet apart at Alan's paint shop last weekend. Alan is a real craftsman. I'm sure you will be very impressed with the final product. I would have loved to have seen the final fit of the 4.6 engine but it was all covered...

The standard RF windsor engine is the 220kw 5.0 (about 320HP?) which was available in Australia I think in the Tickford Falcon TL50 for a short while, and is now still available in that configuration as a crate engine (GT40Y heads etc). I don't know anything about the 4.6 standard but if you...

Ron, By "standard", I think he means RF emissions compliant engines. There is only one very definite configuration for each engine for that. I'm with you though on the hot-engine comparison, but when it comes to comparing power-per-emissions (which is probably the real world test for many)...

[ QUOTE ] One thing for sure everything that I have stated has been the truth! [/ QUOTE ] Oliver, You once said that you would be satisfied if you where kept better informed. You got more than you asked for and far more than many would have expected, and yet you are still mouthing off...

Re: Aus. Comp \'06 [ QUOTE ] Sticky rubber?--AND comp brake pads,oil coolers,better shockers,etc,etc all designed to blow your budget [/ QUOTE ] All stuff I don't need I tell myself. The car is plenty fast I say... that is, until that car ahead of me starts to pull away slowly, and then I...

Re: Aus. Comp \'06 A great weekend had by all. You can't beat the sound of a bunch of Ford V8s roaring around a race track in full song. I'm still trying to wipe the silly grin off my face. Gotta get some of that sticky rubber on my wheels though.

Re: GT40 entered in Targa Tasmania 2005 Tim, I'm interested in seeing the interview. Did we ever get to the bottom of the pic itself? The author says that it was taken on the M5 near Liverpool (Queensland I assume) and that the plates were Victorian, which I'm pretty sure is not correct...

Tim, Those plates don't look Victorian to me. Until very very recently (within the last couple of months) VIC plates could not have letters following numbers. Any chance it’s the car that competed in the Targa Tassie last year? That car was black and was billed as an original… much to the...

Peter, I did once see someone apply an “emergency” fix to just such a problem. They solved it by punching tiny dimples equally spaced around the contact surface (in your case, the inside of the hoop) using a pointed steel punch. This caused the surface around the dimples to rise and so create a...