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Re: Bathurst 1000 Car Crashes	Wed, 19 October 2005 08:55

To answer a few of the questions: After 1986 the intercooler size in Group A was free, so you could put anything in there you liked. Hence the statement in Zoom is wrong, you should see the size of the intercoolers in the Volvos etc. Also, driver adjustable brake bias was legal in Group A, so that was also OK, I don't know why they used the headlight switch, my Supra has a great big knob with 'Bias Front Rear" signs. In Group C it was illegal, hence the cheating by hiding the knob under the rear seat in one Torana I have seen. The Bluebird adjustable boost control was illegal, but they never got caught! In early Group C you could change the carby, but not the number of venturis, hence a Holden or Ford which had a 4 barrel could run 2 Webers, and why the early XU-1s ran triple webers but only used 1 choke in each. Later, you could run anything or as many as you wanted, but you always had to run the original inlet manifold with no modifications. How did they cheat? I don't know about the Gibson cars, you would have to ask Terry. Dick Johnson was actually disqualified for the fuel being too low octane - figure that out. As far as some other Group A cars go, I have seen roll cages used as fuel tanks and oil tanks, bladder fuel tanks which they put bricks on when CAMS did their size inspections, then with the bricks off you get another 20 litres,telemetry which allowed the pit crew to adjust engine mixture, metal bumper supports moulded in fibreglass complete with spot weld marks, offset ground crankshafts for larger capacity, modified front crossmembers to sit engines lower, and even an alternator mounting bracket which was supposed to be cast iron made from aluminium. Not saying which of these is on the Supra....... Notice the lovely Supra wrapped up in a ball on the cover of the Crashes video, and on the back? Luckily, no video exists of that 86 Bathurst crash. John A ART Racing [Report message to a moderator]

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