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I think you mean, how does the tail gate not lift the car too high? They are designed to mechanically stop at the height of the ramps in the transporter. Cheers!

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Always a good time when they fire up for the first time!!

Yes very proud! Cheers!!

Haha yeah not many these days wear overalls!! Cheers!!

In the Mallee District of far, north west Victoria. We grow cereals/grain, mostly wheat and barley; but also lupens, lentils

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You can find a lot of this information online or in magazines like Street Machine who covered engine specs in 1993/94 and again in 2022/23. 1993 Engine was 10:1, 2.020" inlet valves and standard exhaust, 550hp 415ft/lbs torque at 5500rpm

Not sure on the specs, these were very popular late 80's and early 90's but they are very rare today!

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Yes and quite small bolts I believe!!!

Wow! That "shitty" tail shaft won 3 x Bathurst's and ran strong and reliable for us until 2009 when we sold up! No need to try make the wheel more round! Cheers for watching!

@@perkinsengineering yeah as a panel beater by trade I put a floor jack under the tow bar on a VL and it put kinks in both rear quarter panels the chassis is weak and light as a feather to me there a glorified holden carmirra junk good 👍 job on getting it to stick to track

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Hahaha yeah not the best colour for working in the shed!! Cheers!!

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They are varying sizes, any ones in particular?

@@perkinsengineering The lower front suspension arm, the very front one on the drag arm and the inner of the lower arm. What's the size of the rear radius rods?

Yes Harrop 4 pot front calipers too, same as the 93 and 94 rockets. Cheers!!

Yes they have "LP" on the back

@@perkinsengineering Thank you for the reply, cheers, remember selling aircraft 316 welding wire to russell at the Moorabbin factory workshop back in 1999,( which was used to tie off the engines areas after completion, so that no teams can open up the engines and change anything) also still have the VT racing poster signed by LP. cheers 👌✌🦘👍👍

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Someone even stuck a Ford badge on the front of it!!!

@@perkinsengineering the gaul of it all!

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Well I guess so, largely because the later cars had big rear wings and bigger front spoilers so that equals more drag and downforce.

There's one for sale on our website! Check it out here: perkinsmotorsport.com/collections/featured-products/products/perkins-engineering-prototype-slide-manifold

Haha unfortunately not!

Oh ok, basically only another set of holes, nothing serious in terms of modifications!

Cheers, yeah that's something we can look to do in the future!

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Don't worry, initially the VP didn't either!

That's up to the car owner. This one has a clear film over the front of it actually. Cheers!!

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Yes that one may be next actually! Cheers!!

You nailed it. I was thinking exactly the same thing. That single link mount on the R. R. axle tube looks a tad flimsy to me. I can see the old 304 could probably chew that off fairly easily when trying to haul out of the Cutting. Love the way she still has a fairly typical wet sump & GM type oil pump. I see a lot of crazy expensive trendyarse dry sump set ups needlessly grafted onto Holden V8s & 6s lately. This was a highly competitive car in her day & the old Holden oil pump obviously did the job nicely. Walky back ends seemed to collapse evenly left & right. I'd love to know why?

No I don't unfortunately, largely because there are literally zero photos around and I can only recall what others have told me. I would need to double check the stories!! I believe the bolt sizes were really small too. Let me chase it up. Cheers!!

The 3rd link is a decent piece of tube, larger and stronger than the lower arms. Yes KISS - Keep It Simple Stupid! Cheers!!

@@perkinsengineering It's the actual bracket welded to the axle housing that looks like it could sheer off.

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Any info or pics I can check out. wouldn’t be for another couple years after they ran the VL before I even existed.. and this is the first I’m learning of many different things. Been the case a lot thanks to this channel and the people that comment, it’s bloody awesome. you’ve got me intrigued to be honest

@@cpzmelbs You can see the amount of time & trouble invested in making our local family cars fast & entertaining. Group C rules allowed these improvements which made the cars safer & a whole lot faster. The whole idea was to showcase locally available cars & to provide exiting entertainment & it worked beautifully. Some folks with too much money lost the plot & they rammed Group A rules down our necks in 1985. This allowed endless swarms of specialised factory mass produced racecars in from Europe & elsewhere. The big dollar Aust teams elected to run these massively powerful Euro rockets up against our locally developed family car based sedans. Suddenly we were swamped with megabuck whizz bang tin pot toys from overseas & all the hard work we'd invested in local motor racing went largely down the drain. We'd had 6 cylinder & V8 Holdens fight it out on track with V8 Falcons since 1968. These local cars sounded awesome & the racing was intense. The engines were race prepped family car engines. They were real cars anyone could buy, prep & race. Group A killed it. We ended up watching Cosworth powered kid's toys dominating which sounded like a fart in a trumpet winning race after race. Even Ford fans cheered for V8 Commodores because they were sick of 4 cylinder fart rockets until Nissan arrived with their criminally fast twin turboed 4 wheel drive GTRs which clearly demonstrated Group A was a sick joke no one wanted. Larry did the patriotic thing. He stuck with his Holdens, worked like mad to make them stronger & faster & he & a few others put up a damn good fight right up until the numbskulls finally woke up & tossed out the nutty Group A rule book in 1993. Group A became so infuriating, the crowd at Bathurst in 1992 started pelting full cans of beer at Jimmy & Skaifey after they won the event with a monster car aptly named Godzilla. By this stage, Aust racing enthusiasts had had an absolute gutful of expensive purpose built foreign cars dominating our sport. It was appalling & outrageous & folks were angry. This great Perkins built VL shows us just how much work went into setting up a Commodore to make it competitive under Group A rules. She's a work of art & a fine example of what formed the basis of V8 Supercars years later. Even Peter Brock drove a Coswoth Sierra at Bathurst in 1990. No one wanted to ever see anything like that. Thankfully Larry kept V8 Holdens alive throughout the entire irritating Group A period. Without him & other visionaries like him, we would never have come away with what became V8 SuperCars. We owe Larry plenty. He was the backbone of Australian Touring Car Racing.

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@@perkinsengineering Many thanks, Jack. This episode is golden. Showing us what lies beneath one of Larry's fabulous engineering marvel time capsules is a real treat. Thankfully, early Commies are now running in Historic categories & they are competitive against imported performance coupes. Do us all a huge favour & rattle a VK together for historic racing. I'm sure Castrol would back such a project. 308 Commodores regularly hammered 350 Chev Camaros at Bathurst for years in Group C. I'm sure you could replicate that & the fans would love it.

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@@perkinsengineering One fairly cold early Sunday morning on the Lakeside infield in 1995, he pointed out to my missus that "She had left her headlights on". That stopped us dead in our tracks! The old Lazza was a bit of a mischief maker.

@@perkinsengineering it was probably pretty justified haha

@@obiemichaels9675old fella I used to work with did the same thing under Bob Janes Torana when he was a kid, and got the same response. Only he was dragged out by his ankles first 😆

Ive seen him go off a few times over the decades, one time the team couldn’t get the qualifying motor out because they made a in car change to the exhaust! He was yelling “You mean to tell me a set of headers are f ing us? Maybe we need to be smarter than a set of f ing headers! “ or something like that he said! Must have been another bad day!

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