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13-06-2015, 11:50 AM
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FF.Com.Au Hardcore
Join Date: Feb 2011
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OK, I dug around the magazine cupboard in my shed, and found the June/July '83 Street Machine magazine.
The other thread on here about diesel engines in a Falcon, where someone mentioned a Holden red motor being put in a GT Falcon, made me remember the article. It was by the inestimable Brian Plankman, engineer extraordinaire, sheep farmer, and greatest supporter of the mighty big block 186 red motor. He put a powerhouse 186 in an XW GT (or what looked like one anyway) and the magazine showed the results... Ah, truly those were the golden years of Australian automotive magazine excellence...  So here's the article in all it's glory...     Oh, and two other words about Plankman and his engineering genius, and idea he came up with after the Americas Cup victory by Australia... "Diff Wing"...  
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13-06-2015, 12:35 PM
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FF.Com.Au Hardcore
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Surely I can't be the only one who is intrigued by the idea of "foreign" engines in cars?
I know people spat chips, but I actually loved the idea of that Mustang with the RB26DETT in F&F Tokyo Drift...
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13-06-2015, 12:59 PM
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Boss 335
Join Date: Jan 2006
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FG F6 Motor strapped into a HO, would make for a nice 6 in a row HO, and would make that chassis hurtle along faster than it ever dreamed it could.
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13-06-2015, 01:58 PM
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trying to get a leg over
 
Join Date: Dec 2004
Location: Melbourne
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Remember Plankmans famous "dashboard cam" ?
aka pulling the choke out !
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15-06-2015, 01:17 PM
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FF.Com.Au Hardcore
Join Date: Mar 2012
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I have this issue and remember the story well.
They should bring a Plankman character back and give him half a page each issue for a few laughs. EDIT - I have a vague memory of Plankman bolting in a 44gallon drum into something for a long range tank. Anyone recall that one? |
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15-06-2015, 02:35 PM
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Turbo 358W
Join Date: Nov 2009
Location: bosnia(boronia)
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quarter mile times u ask ? 24 dead by the kitchen clock.
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6 in a row HO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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