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Offline Rat

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  • Your Track: Willowbank Raceway, Queensland, Australia
  • Your Vehicle: Colthup Bros FED
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My old Ride
« on: July 27, 2019, 05:29:28 PM »
This is my first serious race car in it various incarnations.
* How I purchased it - Yellow & White. The engine is a 186ci Holden Red, baby brother to the 262 chev
* Before I raced it we painted it Blue on Blue
* It was then done in Metal Flake Blue with Triple SU carbs
* Now fitted with fuel injection
* The engine was then changed to a 250ci crossflow Ford and the whole car stripped down, sandblasted and repainted in Ford Bronze & Gold. Fuel Injection off the Holden engine was used on this engine.
Sadly sold not long after but it is still active more than 25 years later.
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Re: My old Ride
« Reply #1 on: July 27, 2019, 08:15:17 PM »
Some pics after I sold it, seems each new owner likes to change the exhaust.
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Offline Calkins

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  • Your Vehicle: 1997 Canode 225" Ex-Nostalgia Top Fueler
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Re: My old Ride
« Reply #2 on: July 28, 2019, 06:55:05 AM »
That rail would look mighty neat with a Ford Y-Block with an Y-Bloke 4-71 setup...



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Justin Calkins - Iowa Falls, Iowa  USA

UNDER CONSTRUCTION:  1997 Hal Canode 225" FED

Offline THE FRENCHTOWN FLYER

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  • Your Best Time: 8.28@168 door; 9.00@147 6-cyl alt; 8.53@160 RED
  • Your Engine: 300 Ford six NA w/ crossflow and prod. heads
  • Your Track: Milan, Thompson
  • Your Vehicle: (3) Advanced Chassis altered , The Last Logghe altered, '30 RPU
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Re: My old Ride
« Reply #3 on: July 28, 2019, 07:37:30 PM »
What did it run?
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Offline Rat

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Re: My old Ride
« Reply #4 on: July 29, 2019, 02:40:54 AM »
Calkins, It would be a wild ride with that Y block.

Flyer, With the Holden 10.98/127, with the Ford I did very few runs before selling 10.86/129. After I sold it I think it got down to 10.1 not sure on the speed. The Ford was a mates street car engine that we put the methanol fuel injection on. We flipped the engine plate and made a bellhousing, everything else was the same, 8 1/2" 3000 Stall convertor, glide. Very mild set up but it was just a fun car. 8)
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Offline THE FRENCHTOWN FLYER

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  • Your Vehicle: (3) Advanced Chassis altered , The Last Logghe altered, '30 RPU
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Re: My old Ride
« Reply #5 on: July 29, 2019, 03:29:41 AM »
It sounds like a good setup to go out and hammer it and have fun and not have to worry about hurting much.
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Re: My old Ride
« Reply #6 on: August 07, 2019, 05:43:02 PM »
It was definitely a fun car, we would run 2-3 weekends a month and do nothing to the engine other than set tappets, spark plugs every month and change the oil every meet. 8)
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