N
OW that Adelaide’s had a
consistently running drag strip
for six years, the flow-on effect
has been a surge of single-
figure street-and-strip monsters.
Turbo-powered small-cube rides
are now commonplace in a land where
naturally aspirated, big-inch cars once
dominated. So it seemed a good time for
Street Machine to venture along to a Fast
Friday quarter-mile street meet-style event
at Adelaide International Raceway for a
gander at the current scene.
Fast Friday events are open to everything
from bog-stocker streeters to comp cars
that need some test time. The mix makes
for a great visual and acoustic feast, and at
$75 for pre-entry, it’s cheap racing – if you
don’t break anything!
Although an unusually humid day with
the threat of rain kept both entrant and
spectator numbers down, those that did
rock up got in as many runs as they dared,
and some even managed to run their best
numbers against the odds.
While the event was laden with Holdens
in a city that’s still grieving the General’s
departure, it was a 70s Ford that stole the
show: Phil Edmondson’s ‘White Whale’
XB coupe belted out an 8.97@154mph
pass, in a strong headwind. Phil’s been
chasing eights since last year’s Street
Machine Drag Challenge, so he was a very
happy camper having pulled that number
straight off the (nonexistent) trailer.
“I went through the tune for over an
hour last night with Nathaniel from Dandy
Engines remoted into my laptop,” Phil said.
“I planned on only changing the off-the-line
boost over all the runs to get consistentA: Young gun Brock
Langley has crewed for
his parents Kylie and
Paul on their tough and
consistent Super Street
HX for years, so it’s only
fitting that the 19-year-
old lets off steam in
the same fashion.
While the apprentice
mechanic did get a blat
in the HX as an 18th
birthday present, his
personal steed is this
VY Commodore running
a 3.8L V6, Getrag
manual gearbox and
3.46s in the rear. “My
PB is a 15.6sec quarter;
that’s with nitrous and
a blown second gear, so
I’ll soon be swapping
the manual for a TH350”B: Paul Jacobs’s silverWK Caprice runs a
turbocharged LS1 and
sits in 22nd on the SA
Street Outlaws list with
a 10.007@137mph.
Nines are oh-so-close,
but proved elusive at
Fast Friday due to the
heavy airC: Street-driven drag
cars are the new black,
and Rusmir Hodzic’s
VL Turbs is a fresh
example. “It’s a RB30
with the usual work
throughout,” he said of
the year-old build. “It
has 349rwhp at 17psi,
with an R33 S2 GTST
auto and BorgWarner
with mini-spool. My
best is a 12.5, not
far off of tonight’s
12.6@111mph”A
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has been a surge of single-
ffifgure street-and-strip monsters.
Turbo-powered small-cube rides
are now commonplace in a land where
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the threat of rain kept both entrant and
spectator numbers down, those that did
rock up got in as many runs as they dared,
and some even managed to run their best
numbers against the odds.
While the event was laden with Holdens
in a city that’s still grieving the General’s
depart re it as ad t it 70 70 F d th t t l ths Ford that stole theA:Young gun Brock
Langley has crewed for
his parents Kylie and
Paul on their tough and
consistent Super Street
HX for years, so it’s only
fitting that the 19-year-
old lets off steam in
the same fashion.WK Caprice runsa
turbocharged LS1 and
sits in 22nd onthe SA
Street Outlaws list with
a 10.007@ 137 mph.
Nines are oh-so-close,
but proved elusiveat
Fast Friday due to the
heavy yairAAAA