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Mr Mad's latest outing!

Started by _KRUPTA_ , May 24 2006 07:58 PM

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#1 _KRUPTA_

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Posted 24 May 2006 - 07:58 PM

Hi everyone,

Have you all heard the latest on Mr Mad?

He ran a 6.81 @ 210mph at compac attack which makes it the fastest road registered car in australia!

How's that for a fast Torrey...It is a twin turbo SBC and has a 1/2 chassis, it was featured in street machine, this a one serious bit of gear. I'm pretty sure they got the engine from the states but the con & vic from C & V Perfomance may have tweaked it slightly, the car runs a air-shifted lenco(3speed I think).

I can't wait to see it out again...what a car! :clap:

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#2 RIM-010

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Posted 24 May 2006 - 08:13 PM

Road Registered? Bullshit.

But its a bloody nice rig, for show and obviously go.

Dont know why he put XU-1 Decls on it though...

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#3 _torana_

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Posted 24 May 2006 - 09:03 PM

Road Registered? Bullshit.

But its a bloody nice rig, for show and obviously go.

Dont know why he put XU-1 Decls on it though...

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gotta agree with the road registered bullshit comment. I find it hard to beleive that car has ever seen road duties , but it is a awesome drag car, pushing technology to the limits. Maybe oneday we are going to see air conditioning in cars cooling intake air instead of dry ice intercoolers?

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Posted 24 May 2006 - 09:28 PM

That'd be bloody scary on the street...

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#5 _jap-xu1_

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Posted 24 May 2006 - 09:58 PM

Im pretty sure its joeblo reincarnated.
I was at wsid racing one night when it showed up and made a few trial launches.
Joe cutelli was there looking on.

its an awesome looking machine and is surprisingly quiet at idle

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#6 _TORANASS_

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Posted 24 May 2006 - 11:22 PM

Maybe oneday we are going to see air conditioning in cars cooling intake air instead of dry ice intercoolers?

Been and done, Im pretty sure that the JUDGE Todds GIACOTALO had refridgerated intercoolers on it.. I could be wrong tho..

John

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#7 _jap-xu1_

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Posted 24 May 2006 - 11:35 PM

why use a cooler to increase power that costs power to run?

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Posted 24 May 2006 - 11:56 PM

Maybe oneday we are going to see air conditioning in cars cooling intake air instead of dry ice intercoolers?
Been and done, Im pretty sure that the JUDGE Todds GIACOTALO had refridgerated intercoolers on it.. I could be wrong tho..

John

The Giocattolo's Intercoolers are Twin Vortech Maxflow Water/Air with remote heat exchanger and integrated Ice Box
As stolen from Todd's webpage

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Posted 25 May 2006 - 09:23 AM

It's not a Smallblock either, 440ci = TT BBC

But bloody hell that is a quick vehicle. If might be road registered, but I doubt it's hit the streets for five years

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Posted 25 May 2006 - 09:56 AM

It's not a Smallblock either, 440ci = TT BBC

could be a small block Heath, you can now get a strocker kit to take a small block out to 454ci, based on a 400 small block.

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Posted 25 May 2006 - 10:11 AM

Or it could also be one of those big-block small-blocks that can support a wider bore... but I still don't think it's a smallblock.

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#12 _[BOTTLEDUP]_

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Posted 25 May 2006 - 12:27 PM

OK for the record:
It is not JOEBLO re-incarnated, Joe Cutelli purchased that car back from Chris over here in WA, and I believe it is/has raced again with a blower, not turbos. For a short while the car did have a TT setup from Eddie Tassone, but I don't believe it ever got down the track.

It is road registered... meaning he pays the rego. No one said it was street driven or legal.

It has XU-1 stickers on it because it is reportedly a genuine XU-1

It is a small block, I believe an all alloy SB2 style, with larger bores, raised cam tunnel and extra clearances.

While I don't think you'll ever see A/C cooled intercoolers (you'd be using more energy than you'd gain) the principle is being used in the form of NX's N-tercooler and Cyrotec's CO2 spray setups. For drag racing (short term use) water to air intercoolers where the coolant/water passes through dry ice or similar bath can exceed 100% efficiency. I've seen a car here in WA with this setup, and CO2 inlet sprayers recording intake temps of 0 degrees or below. :blink:

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Posted 25 May 2006 - 02:18 PM

i do beleive JOEBLO is in QLD... last i heard,

and yeah i aslo heard the mr mad is a genuine XU-1

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Posted 25 May 2006 - 03:18 PM

What a waste of an XU-1...

Why would you make a drag car out of a genuine XU-1?

THIS IS A BLOODY OUTRAGE!

It'd be just as easy to make an LJ "S" into a drag car as it would be to make one out of an XU-1, and then you wouldnt be wrecking a collectable.

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#15 _jap-xu1_

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Posted 25 May 2006 - 04:09 PM

THIS IS A BLOODY OUTRAGE!

get over it mate.

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Posted 25 May 2006 - 04:37 PM

RIM: I'm with Jap-xu1... get over it mate.. Wether it is or isnt is debatable.. and even if it is.. its his car mate! he can do as he likes.

I say good shit.. its an UNREAL car! 6.80s "out of the box" so to speak is phenominal!

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Posted 25 May 2006 - 04:40 PM

It probably got a v8etc back in the 70's or 80's like all the other xu1s & GTRs did,they couldnt have known back then or else someone would have kept all the 2600s engines out of all the LC GTRs & made a lot of money.

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Posted 25 May 2006 - 05:47 PM

What is there to get over? Its not like i can tell people what to do with their cars, i just think its a waste of a good XU-1

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Also, "This is a bloody outrage" is a quote from Stewie, from "The Family Guy"

i add:

I agree, any car that can pull 6.8sec quarters is a bloody good thing. But i just think it couldve/shouldve been done with an "S" or something 'below' an XU-1

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Posted 25 May 2006 - 06:30 PM

What a waste of an XU-1...

Bathurst XU-1

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#20 _QIKSLR_

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Posted 25 May 2006 - 06:43 PM

Personally what I find more sickening is that theres someone out there who'd purchase an engineering masterpeice like MR MAD and put in a 202 and sprintmasters on it.

I'm so glad that my LX is a pov pack so I don't have to be constantly insulted by the purists.

I reckon theres way more fully road registered toranas in original/roadworthy condition that see the road as little as these sort of drag cars..

BTW Good on the bastard! My mate filmed the 6.8 second pass and holey crap! I've never seen something launch like that :blink:

Anyone know which class he competes in?

Edited by QIKSLR, 25 May 2006 - 06:45 PM.

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#21 _jap-xu1_

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Posted 25 May 2006 - 06:52 PM

i wouldnt think there is a class for him.
the supercharger boys dont want to know about turbos,scared i say.

it takes me back to the days of no dragstrip in sydney and all the pro drag cars would throw on a set of plates and show up at the street meets

rim 010.
i agree with you about the whole cutting an xu1 thing but its just a bit old hat to whinge about modded cars,seems to happen too much.

as for the "family guy" quote,im more of an "american dad" guy myself

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#22 _jap-xu1_

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Posted 25 May 2006 - 06:55 PM

street machine magazine quoted it as being a genuine bathurst xu1.
it wouldnt be the first time a car magazine has blatantly lied to make its article more appealing (or appauling whichever it may be)

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#23 _MRNOS_

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Posted 25 May 2006 - 07:02 PM

This car-i'm pretty sure is "1 of " Joe Blo's old cars, its not his old RED car-now blue blown small block, runs 7.80's with tyre shake- this was the car he was building after the sale of his original Red 1-I believe, and i'm also fairly certain that MRMAD is a genuine Bathurst XU1- To whoever cut up the car to make it a drag car-well done for modding a car, regardless of what it was/is, to suit what you liked...6.80's from a Torana... God-damn!!!!!! And the launch on MRMAD-holycrap!!!

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Posted 25 May 2006 - 07:07 PM

http://www.zippyvide...187736/default/
Some footage I found on another site..The RX7 in the other lane never stood a chance :tease:

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#25 makka

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Posted 25 May 2006 - 07:35 PM

I dont think they set out to cut up an XU-1 RIM, it would have been a slow evolution that began in the 70s, hot 6 then stick in a 8, then minitubs...........
you get the picture.

all I can say is :clap: