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Hi John, As it was the 4th Sunday of the month, it was our Club GT40 monthly run. We were on our way home from a drive of about 500 km. After meeting at Aspley at 7:00am we travelled to Kingaroy for morning tea then on to Kilkivan for lunch at the local pub and finally home via Gympie...

There is not much room to recess the top of the number plate and here in QLD back in 2001 you had to use the full size plate on the rear. To find a light small enough to fit was a major problem until I came upon these Hella LED's which had only been in use a short time back then. The...

A couple of shots of the recessed number plate on my DRB. I felt that attaching the number plate on the flat surface looked like an afterthought as well.

This day, held at Queensland Raceway last Sunday, was organised by ex V8 Supercar driver David Besnard to raise funds for the victims of floods in North Queensland and bushfires in Victoria. The Cobra club in Queensland (to which most GT40 owners also belong) was invited to participate in the...

Some photos attached of the breakfast get together at Lake Moogerah on Sunday. We all gathered at the Amberley Road House at 6. 45 am for hot coffee (particularly for those in Cobra’s), before travelling in convoy via the Cunningham Highway, with 8 GT40’s and a couple of Cobra’s. The views from...

Bill, the seat belt eye bolts are 7/16"-14 which is a standard size here in Aus. The cross member where you intend to fit the shoulder straps is a hollow section. I turned up some bushes with a flange on one end, put them through from the rear and then had a friend tig weld them in position...

The air filters came from Unifilter Australia. I had them custom made. Just give them the dimensions and colour. I ordered them over the phone in 2003 but here is a link to their website. Unifilter Australia Foam Air Filters for Economy and Performance Greg.

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A couple of shots taken from Peter Ransom's car of our run last Sunday. Breakfast at the Wynnum Manly Yacht Club and then a drive to Canungra in the Gold Coast Hinterland for coffee or in my case iced chocolate. Another enjoyable day. Greg.

Here are a couple more shots from Sunday's run courtesy of Peter Ransom. The first two were taken at the meeting place at Aspley on Brisbane's north side. The third was at the breakfast stop at Mt Mee State Forest Park - a BBQ breakfast put on by the Baxter family. We then carried on to...

Sorry to correct you Kevin but it is a bit hard to tell from the photo. The line up is:- Phil, Peter, Gary, Jeff, Wayne, Greg, Ian, Graham. Gavin did not have his car there, he was in with Matthew who had to park further up the road so is not in the shot. This was the lunch stop on our...

Jason, CP5555 front and rear with AP 3/4" short master cylinders and bias adjustment. The alum hats were machined by the guy who did the whole brake set up for me back in 01/02 when I first started building the car. He was a top class fabricator and worked for a few of the V8 Supercar...

Unfortunately with the cost of the AP racing brakes, 13.5" rotors (front) and custom bracketry I will be out of pocket about 8K, but it has been fun and it will be different. I should have a lower pedal effort as well (larger disc diameter) so that will be one plus (I'm getting old!). Jason...

A New Zealander was washed up on a beach after a terrible shipwreck. Only a sheep and a sheepdog were washed up with him. Looking around, he realised that they were stranded on a deserted island. After being there a while, he got into the habit of taking his two animal companions to the...

I do run an 85 deg C thermostat. The problem arises because the pick up from the rear of the inlet manifold comes into the thermostat housing after the thermostat, therefore when the thermostat is closed the coolant takes the path of least resistance down the -6 hose and consequently the...

Ross, The ball valve I used is one I just happened to have lying around in my workshop, I used it to control coolant flow to my first lathe which did not have a suds pump. I think I bought it from my local hose supply shop several years ago and then bought the -6 Speedflow adapters to suit...

Ross, I have a DC&O inlet manifold the same as yours and experienced the same problem of not getting up to temperature. I tried blocking off the radiator but this did not work because as you stated the problem is caused by too much coolant by-passing the thermostat. My solution was to fit...

These shots were taken at St Bernard's Hotel, Mount Tambourine in the Gold Coast Hinterland where Club GT40 Australia had it's April run and breakfast. We usually get together on the third Sunday in the month for a run and either breakfast or lunch depending on the destination. We get four to...

Peter, I had a terrible creaking and squeaking noise which appeared to be coming from the urethane bushes where the trailing arms are bolted to the U brackets just behind the cabin. However on further investgation and by disconnecting the rear anti-roll bar and just bouncing up and down on the...

Thankyou all for the kind words, it's comments like these that make the last 3 years of highs and lows worthwhile - (although nothing compares to actually driving it). Brett, these are the optional race bucket seat offered by GT40 Australia. They come as a bare fibreglass shell which can be...