01: Anthony ny KniKnght’s
RX-7 wasas decepttiveivly
fast, wwith its best ruun
beingng 310.60km/h. BBut
hanng on a minute all yyou
rottor fans, stop typing –
thhere was no rice cookeed
heere, as Anthony has
swswapped out the Wankeel
aand gone for good ol’
ttwin-turbo LS power.
WWith a factooryy intake
aand the turbbos mounted
bbelow the headlights,
thhe flat bonnet doesn’t
gigive the game away at
alll. Anthony has ownedd
andnd raced the car for
somme 25 years, and it
looksks like it’s stillgoott
plentyty of life left in iit!
02: Brook kGunGunnining won
lalast year’s sCasCash Dh ays
with his s XXE Falconn, s,o
he thoought he’d stepep it
up wiwith this Mustangg.
It’s an old drag car thaat
coppped a fresh coat of f
brright orange paint andd
thhe Fontana engine thatt
oonce powered Graham
KKennedy’s Good, Bad &
UUgly Capri03: If therewas an
aaward for the best
nnumber plate, it would
haave to go to Andrew
Sttrickland and his
LOOLVO. Andrew was
havving a ball this yearr
afterr going ‘rods out’
in 2011 7. 7 With a new w
single-tu-turbo LScocommbo,
thet boxy 242242 GTGT pusheditits way intotoththe setiff
headwiindndto reel ol off a
279 .12 12 km/h passinn the
800 mm. Unfortunately,y, it
apppeared to lift a headad,
filliling up the passengeer-
sidde bores with coolantt
innthe process, so there
wwere no 1000m attemptss04: While last year
tthere was juusst 0.65km/h
sseparating ffiirst and
ssecond place, this year
itt was Eddy Tassone
cllearly in front, with
daaylight second and
Peteter Gray’s R33 Skylinne
9.9 9 9km 9 /h behind
Eddy’sy amazing – andd
almosst record-settining –
334 .93km/kmh run.AAfter a
horh rific crarashsh fivfive yearsaago at Racewcewarsar, Eddy
has rebuibuilt his caar ar nd
hiscoonnfidence to fininally
claimmthe title that
eveeryone knew he wasas
cappable of. The 46 0ci
LSS monster features
ann RHS alloy block,
MMast Mozez heads and
twtwin Precision 76/75
low-mounted turbos
ffeeding intooaa Marcella
MManifolds inttake. With
2 20psi of boost, the car
mmade over 1500hp on
a hub dyno, but Eddy
tuurned it up to 24psi
onnhis winning run. Hiss
speeed puts him just
1.5kmkm/h behind the
Austraralian 1 000 m reecord
held by Cy Chris Thomomson
ini an R35SkSkyliylinneT
HE long weekend in March saw a
horsepower invasion take over the
city of Albany, the normally peaceful
community on the Southern Ocean
about five hours south of Perth. Yep,
the Motul Racewars crew had rolled
into town, but you won’t hear any complaints
from the locals. In fact, Albany promotes the
event as one of its Amazing Albany tourist
attractions. It’s pretty obvious by attending the
Sunday-morning Cars & Coffee event down at
the marina that there’s a solid car scene in this
city of just over 30,000 people.
Rolling up to the event on Saturday, it
appeared that around 10,000 of those
people were at Albany Airport watching the
competitors familiarise themselves with the
track and conditions. Racewars starts off
pretty cruisy with side-by-side roll-on 400m
sprints, but that doesn’t mean people take it
easy, with bragging rights up for grabs right
from the start. This event is where some of the
older stuff can shine: steel-bumper cars more
at home on the drag strip with their short gears
and big-cube V8 engines, more often than not
helped along by a spray of nitrous. Many a
turbo Japanese car and high-dollar Euro trash
saw the tail-lights of Mark Grose’s HT Monaro
or Brad Gardiner’s HT ute.
It’s when the track gets extended to 800m
that things start to get interesting and where
the shortcomings of driving something almost
50 years old become apparent. But to their
credit, many of the old-school racers still have
a crack. They usually roll out of it after 400m
before pegging it again just before the 800m
mark, going through the timing traps on the
limiter around 230-240km/h – about 145-
150mph in the old money or about the speed
many of these nine-second cars get to over
the quarter-mile. Hopefully one year someone
will put some highway gears in an old classic01
02
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TWIN-TURBO LS RX-7
Ant hony K night
310.60km/hLOLVO
Andrew St rickl and
279.12KM/H (800M)