Maaaaaaaaaaate, you're a bloody legend!!!! Cant believe you did upload this. I well remember watching a bit of this as like last week. I would have watched it fully if it wasn't for my dad telling me to go outside to play in the sun. I was 11 years old that time. It was a good day for Ford, an 'ol Falcon 1-2. Much appreciation.
Great to know we could do something good for you, it was a great day for Ford, I too remember it well! And thanks for the kind words.. make it all worth it..
Super100MPH I know I can be a real pest but any hope for 1983 Oran Park AEC round? I never seen it but would love to. It was the day the much improved XE Falcons made their spectacular racing debut. With bigger and better 19" rear 'Porsche' wheels, better inlet manifold and cylinder heads and better brakes the new Falcon seemingly came back from the dead. It was the day Dickie Trickie showed up in new Kermit green war paint and it could have been first up first win if not for the heat expansion causing one of the wheels to be jammed on hub (much like that affected FPR early last year). Anyway, looking forward for your next project. Thrill me...
Super100MPH Crikey, good collection you have. I only started recording myself during mid 90s on Beta tapes but it just never the same as Group C era. The cars, the drivers, the teams.... they were truly great days.
Read an interview with DJ once, and he blamed the new XE Falcon Watts link set up for the odd handling. They fixed it, im guessing by moving the Watts link centre pivot from the diff housing to the body, and the other points from the body to the diff. Just like V8Supercars ended up using for decades after...
They said at 41:53 that Johnson's Falcon was 396 horsepower at this time it seemed a little underpowered, is this because it was a fairly new car and hadn't been developed enough at that stage. In my Modern Motor October 1982 mag it says it was 410 horsepower (305.8 kW) and was 1420 kg. When they did the Bathurst preliminary in 1982 they said the Falcon produced 435 horsepower. I would have thought that it produced 435 horsepower once the inlet manifold was used in 1983. What are people's thoughts on this ?
If I remember it right, the first XD at Bathurst had 410hp.... and steadily it went up and up.... to around about 520 on his green Falcon right at the end of Group C formula. So the 1982 XE, like Bartlett Camaro was around about 450hp at this time, and then up again by another 20hp from the new inlet manifold introduced for the 1983 enduro. Steve Masterton reckon the best he got from his 351 was 480hp..... but dyno figures in those days tend to be unreliable.
I reckon no one had any idea what hp they had and they were all just making shit up. I'd doubt dick would even know what he had. Back in these days everyone would cry poor to get extra freedoms from cams.
A great era for Australian motor racing
5.8l v8's, rotaries, turbo 4's, 5l v8's, all producing similar performance. Great racing.
This what car racing is all about the best from the 1980s
Yes sir Mr Dick Johnson,, awesome to see the Capri and couplee rotary RX7 's in the top 5+
Maaaaaaaaaaate, you're a bloody legend!!!! Cant believe you did upload this. I well remember watching a bit of this as like last week. I would have watched it fully if it wasn't for my dad telling me to go outside to play in the sun. I was 11 years old that time. It was a good day for Ford, an 'ol Falcon 1-2. Much appreciation.
Great to know we could do something good for you, it was a great day for Ford, I too remember it well! And thanks for the kind words.. make it all worth it..
Super100MPH I know I can be a real pest but any hope for 1983 Oran Park AEC round? I never seen it but would love to. It was the day the much improved XE Falcons made their spectacular racing debut. With bigger and better 19" rear 'Porsche' wheels, better inlet manifold and cylinder heads and better brakes the new Falcon seemingly came back from the dead. It was the day Dickie Trickie showed up in new Kermit green war paint and it could have been first up first win if not for the heat expansion causing one of the wheels to be jammed on hub (much like that affected FPR early last year). Anyway, looking forward for your next project. Thrill me...
Still working on that one... a lot of tape being processed as we speak... :-)
Super100MPH Crikey, good collection you have. I only started recording myself during mid 90s on Beta tapes but it just never the same as Group C era. The cars, the drivers, the teams.... they were truly great days.
Read an interview with DJ once, and he blamed the new XE Falcon Watts link set up for the odd handling.
They fixed it, im guessing by moving the Watts link centre pivot from the diff housing to the body, and the other points from the body to the diff.
Just like V8Supercars ended up using for decades after...
just mint thanx ....
And I would have given you a million thumbs up if the system ever let me!!!
They said at 41:53 that Johnson's Falcon was 396 horsepower at this time it seemed a little underpowered, is this because it was a fairly new car and hadn't been developed enough at that stage.
In my Modern Motor October 1982 mag it says it was 410 horsepower (305.8 kW) and was 1420 kg.
When they did the Bathurst preliminary in 1982 they said the Falcon produced 435 horsepower.
I would have thought that it produced 435 horsepower once the inlet manifold was used in 1983.
What are people's thoughts on this ?
If I remember it right, the first XD at Bathurst had 410hp.... and steadily it went up and up.... to around about 520 on his green Falcon right at the end of Group C formula. So the 1982 XE, like Bartlett Camaro was around about 450hp at this time, and then up again by another 20hp from the new inlet manifold introduced for the 1983 enduro. Steve Masterton reckon the best he got from his 351 was 480hp..... but dyno figures in those days tend to be unreliable.
I reckon no one had any idea what hp they had and they were all just making shit up.
I'd doubt dick would even know what he had. Back in these days everyone would cry poor to get extra freedoms from cams.
Does anyone know what happened to Johnson, why he made that late pit stop?
Because the Falcon XE in 1982 trim handled so poorly with snap oversteer from its rear suspension design, his rear tyres had expired.
wow a nissan bluebird (turbo) thats a VERY rare car nowedays
The commentator said it was Amaroo not Oran Park???
Withab BJ Be assured, that's Oran Park, probably a slip of the tongue... :-)
definitely not Amaroo