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Yeah mate still kicking haha, I have to do a metering plate for the carb, I used the one Wolfy had modified over East but it's not right, the idle mixture is all over the place, plus I have a few more developments to get done and she will be faster again

3 manifolds would be needed, using cylinder runners 3 & 4 like suggested above, the first manifold you would have to cut off 1,2,5 and 6 but leaving the mounting flange behind to weld the other runners to so to keep the correct bolt pattern for the head then weld the other 3 & 4 sections on and join the middle sections together and block off the ends, sounds simple but would be a heap of work and would cost $$$ to get done properly.

It's funny because the 2 cars I'm involved with look like junk but they were the 2 guys that let me have a crack and there both happy so that makes me happy.

Cheers Ando, the only problem with this "race team" is that Wolfy owns the local wreckers so the car is put together with wrecker parts lol so yeah 25 spline axels, some sort of ribbed belt setup on the front hahaha, the guy is a great bloke but he won't spend money if he has something in the junk pile

I think that wombat will get there, he has fuck all experience compared to the other 6 drivers which have been racing together since juniors.

Hard to tell mate, the track was fast and the racing aggressive/messy. When you look at my laps the street stocks are lapping faster than the production cars, there are 6 driver/car combinations here in Albany that are top 10 state competitors so we are still slightly behind them but not being left behind either, sometimes I get frustrated but then I have to remind myself that we are racing the best down here meet after meet so at least we know how we are really going.

Yeah mate and she has more to give, he wasn't even pushing it, Wolfy said he didn't give it more than 70% throttle as he is still getting used to it. When you listen to the vid the other drivers are flogging theirs and the old boy is hardly on it hahaha. The blue car in front and the White one that came third (Wolfy ran second in that race and right up the arse of the blue one) they both are BIG $$$ cars from Perth that came down to have a run because the state titles are at the Albany track this year and the XF ran with them no worries and faster down the straights than both of them, the XF actually posted the fastest lap time in that race, Wolfy just isn't stringing enough of them together yet to be dominant. Anyway the night went like this, heat 1 the car didn't make it out as it snapped an axel in the pits lol so heat 2 is the vid above and ran 2nd, heat 3 he ran 3rd behind the 2 Perth cars, he got back in the pits and said it was loosing power in the corners, found the reason, his pit crew were too busy celebrating how the car went in the last heat they didn't put any fuel in it so the car was sucking air in the corners hahaha I try to make my engines efficient but they can't run on air alone

Wolfy is the grey XF with yellow bumper number 69

Here is a vid of last night, just a short one of the first few laps, the new engine flies and I was pumped to see it in person, a great result for the first stage of the tune with more development to come on this one. I will tell more of last nights run later tonight. Enjoy

Well had a meet at Albany speedway last night and what a meet it was, nothing special in regards to wombat, the car ran well and was on pace. Carnage between every street stock racer was the call for the evening haha drivers getting relegated positions everywhere and drivers ramming into each other after the races and then mouthing off at each other in the pits

I bought a head being told it was a gas head, I went to the wreckers the other day and the 4 au engines there all had the same casting on the front, none of them were a dedicated gas engine so thinking I just have a normal AU head.

Has anyone got pics or a cast number for these heads, how are they different to stock AU heads. Thanks

I agree 180 to 190 is ideal temp

Yeah good work mate, best experience is hands on experience with some great ozfalcon guidence

I agree with all of the above, don't keep pulling fuel jet out you have to tune the air bleeds.

Yeah she got herbs mate

short vid of me firing it up today while checking the old girl over.

Cheers guys, yeah feeling good at the minute, another surgery early next year then see how we go. Won't be too many updates until after Christmas but thought I would get the thread started now the car had 1 meet under it's belt.

I did all this work over a year ago but the car raced for the first time on the weekend, Wolfy (the owner) was over the moon with it's performance and said it was bad ass fast, so much so he rekons he needs to grow some bigger balls to drive it properly hahaha. I was talking to him today about how it went as I wasn't there and he said the power was everywhere, as soon as you got on it she was flying, previous engines he's had the power was delayed or had to build up speed, this engine pulls out the corners like no other and he didn't find the end of the power curve as he ran out of track. He said that he has to get used to it and was sitting behind cars just getting a feel for it but if he had bigger balls he could easily passed cars if he commited in the corners, looking at lap times and top speeds on the my laps site the car was running competitive times and speeds for it's first time out and him not using the car to it's full potential. I'm stoked with it and it shows that the port design and size is perfectly matched to the cam and intake as there is no delay in power from lower in the rev range all the way to redline, there is more development work for this combination to come that WILL make it faster again and I haven't even tuned it yet, the 3rd of Jan I will get a look at it on the track and start the fine tuning process and slowly get the tune spot on, the production titles are at our Albany track this year so hopefully some home advantage will have us eating some more injected cars this season.

On a better note the production XF went well for a first untuned run, it was the southern production series round so the states best came out to play, even tho the car ran middle to back of the pack it finished on the lead lap every race and it's lap times and top speed were competitive. Wolfy is the old boy driving it and he had a blast, he thinks it's fast and with more seat time should be right up there, he hasn't raced for a couple of seasons now so he will get better and he has never had a car this fast before either so looking good when I get some tuning time into it.

I know but the thread needed at least one pic of an engine hahaha

Here you go Rob

I put the same effort and detail into a stock engine as I would a race engine, it is the only way you can make sure an engine will last and that you can demand something from it.

Built properly IS checking every clearance, on a slapper you can get away with chucking it together.

You lot jinxed it, no racing tonight the car is broken, the diff and front end still need work and they run out of time. Next meet is the 3rd of Jan