CARNAGE
STORY & PHOTOS SCOTT TAYLOR
OUR BIG YELLOW TAXI IS ALMOST READY TO HIT THE TRACK WITH SOME BOOST
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PISODE two of our new video show,
Carnage, hit the web in late April,
continuing the story of our Turbo Taxi
build. Judging by the response, it
seems like everyone is keen to see if we can
make an old taxi go 10s on LPG.
Last month we’d just finished doing an engine
swap; we found a low-kilometre naturally
aspirated donk on Facebook for $200. The
price was right, but taking four days to slot
in the uncooperative engine certainly took
a shine off things. Everything that could go
wrong did go wrong, and you can see our
struggle first-hand by checking out the video
on streetmachine.com.au.Since then we’ve been plenty busy. We drove
the taxi around for a week or so before the
radiator decided to drop its guts on the side of
the road. The guys from Glenlyon Motors helped
us get the Falcon back in action while I was
away on a mountain retreat. We reckon it was
a combination of age and a dodgy temp sensor
that caused the blow-out.
A lot of people have asked why we didn’t do
the turbo conversion when we changed the
engine over, and the answer is simple – we
didn’t have any of the parts. But we had an
engine and a video schedule, so we elected
to get things moving along. By the time I had
returned the turbo parts were ready, and sowe jumped straight into the heavy-duty stuff.
With time pressing, we got the guys
from MPW to help us with the Plazmaman
intercooler installation – they do this kind of
stuff day in, day out, so it made a lot of sense
to get them involved. For our set-up we chose
the Plazmaman Stage 3 1000hp intercooler
kit and grabbed a four-inch intake and battery
relocation kit to go with it. The ’cooler kit comes
with all the necessary silicon hoses, clamps
and pipework, and all the parts are premium-
quality – no Chinese hose clamps here. The kit
is designed to go in with the minimal amount
of cutting, but that’s when it’s being fitted to
an XR6 Turbo or FPV F6. With our car beingFARE GAME