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#201 _BATHURST-32D_

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Posted 11 July 2010 - 05:09 PM

hehehe :spoton: now thats a good sense of houmor.

cheers gong

#202 FLY_AGAIN_XU-1

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Posted 24 September 2010 - 11:08 AM

Fly if you get "V8" out of that, I want some of what you are smoking.
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Nope, your probaly right R !!!! Maybe LG ????

Though before we go laughing our heads off to much lets look at some facts :

On Friday the 30th of June 1972, Holden offically cancelled their V8 LJ programme, in the following month of July 1972 Holden completed only a total of 7 XU-1 toranas. Then in the month of August 1972 Holden produced a total of 200 XU-1 Toranas. So is it a crazy and laughable assumption to assume that the cars originally intended to be the V8 LJ,s were remodelled into what we call a 1972 " Bathurst" LJ GTR XU-1 ?

JUNE : 30th, Holden cancel production of the V8 LJ
JULY : Holden complete a total of 7 LJ GTR XU-1,s
AUGUST : Holden complete a total of 200 LJ GTR XU-1,s

Think about it for a while.................

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Posted 24 September 2010 - 11:22 AM

Think about it for a while.................


Or ask Joe Felice.


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Posted 24 September 2010 - 12:28 PM

7????
i counted 6
H238742
L205135
L205681
L206229
L206360
L206493
so bruce these are in your mind are V8s???
Joe Felice was telling a different story at the fest!!!

Also bruce were is the apology that you owe my wife Karen and my youngest daughter
Biancha????..hang ya head in shame bruce, what you did to them is unacceptable behaviour by an adult male....

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Posted 24 September 2010 - 05:51 PM

I missed something.................
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Posted 24 September 2010 - 05:55 PM

Larry...Sagman spoke to Joe Felice at P I...personally...he says there were 3 made...now we know Joe was running the show...and like me and Sagman he is getting old...but I think the memory is still resonably OK..well Sagman thought so anyway...he told Larry where they went...over to Sagman...the plot thickens with dis-information...
R

Edited by rorym, 24 September 2010 - 05:56 PM.

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Posted 24 September 2010 - 06:43 PM

whatever the case i reckon your doin ok 9 plus pages i dont reckon kate fisher could manage that sorry edit lol you will sort it out sooner or later someone will still be left that knows what happened maybe try someone less famous like some apprentice mechanics surely they could be tracked down did anyone ask bruce or ned
and craig would those washers be in this car?

Edited by rob350hatch, 24 September 2010 - 06:58 PM.

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Posted 24 September 2010 - 07:40 PM

craig would those washers be in this car?



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Posted 24 September 2010 - 08:34 PM

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Posted 24 September 2010 - 08:54 PM

see i told my mother in law that pictures of her^^^^^ would end up on the net cruel hehehe

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Posted 24 September 2010 - 08:57 PM

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here,s mine

#212 FLY_AGAIN_XU-1

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Posted 24 September 2010 - 11:07 PM

Larry...Sagman spoke to Joe Felice at P I...personally...he says there were 3 made...now we know Joe was running the show...and like me and Sagman he is getting old...but I think the memory is still resonably OK..well Sagman thought so anyway...he told Larry where they went...over to Sagman...the plot thickens with dis-information...
R



Ok Rory, for one moment lets totally forget about the 3 V8 LJ prototypes and lets think production............

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Posted 24 September 2010 - 11:14 PM

Though before we go laughing our heads off to much lets look at some facts :

On Friday the 30th of June 1972, Holden offically cancelled their V8 LJ programme, in the following month of July 1972 Holden completed only a total of 7 XU-1 toranas. Then in the month of August 1972 Holden produced a total of 200 XU-1 Toranas. So is it a crazy and laughable assumption to assume that the cars originally intended to be the V8 LJ,s were remodelled into what we call a 1972 " Bathurst" LJ GTR XU-1 ?

JUNE : 30th, Holden cancel production of the V8 LJ
JULY : Holden complete a total of 7 LJ GTR XU-1,s
AUGUST : Holden complete a total of 200 LJ GTR XU-1,s

Think about it for a while.................


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Posted 25 September 2010 - 02:39 AM

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Edited by xu2308, 17 February 2018 - 04:01 AM.

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Posted 25 September 2010 - 07:05 AM

on another note,,, there are some fading old memories out there, the only thing wrong with the wise stories that come from old men in a bar or from anywhere is every time you hear them thay change... im not putting shit on anyone or disrespecting any of how old race legends.

cheers gong

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Posted 25 September 2010 - 07:54 AM

Just reading this isn't there 2 questions?
Ask Joe or Harry how many LJ V8's were built and it looks like the answer is 3?
Has anyone asked either of them how many shells were prepared for the project? :dontknow:

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Posted 25 September 2010 - 09:59 AM

Just reading this isn't there 2 questions?
Ask Joe or Harry how many LJ V8's were built and it looks like the answer is 3?
Has anyone asked either of them how many shells were prepared for the project? :dontknow:


Question 1 : It would appear that there were 3 prototypes, one pink, one white and one orange ?

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Joe Felices orange prototype at Bathurst in 1973, note the twin fillers on the quarters..........




Question 2 : I have no idea how many shells were prepared however under the C.A.M.S. Rules Holden would have been required to build 200 units. Though i believe they were on there way to building 300, 100 extra for the 2.78 diff ratio Harry Firth wanted.




V8, Detroit Locker (1/1V, 1-7-1972), 2.78 Diff Ratio, a car Harry Firth believed capable of taking on the GT HO Phase 4 and beating it .................

If Holden did prepare the V8 shells for production what happened to them ? Were they squashed, put into a crash barrier or turned into 1972 " Bathurst " LJ GTR XU-1,s ?

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Posted 25 September 2010 - 11:09 AM

just curious ...what is it you think was 'a V8 shell' ? :dontknow: and why would you think they were any different to a normal production shell ?

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Posted 25 September 2010 - 11:14 AM

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Edited by xu2308, 17 February 2018 - 04:01 AM.

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Posted 28 October 2010 - 03:14 PM

.......could be possible as there were turbo lh-lx's fitted up at dealerships.

You got any evidence of this? Only Turbo Torrie I'm aware of was the UC SL/T, and that was dealer fitted. Just interested that's all.

I realise this is a VERY old thread, but I'm midway through another old thread-arguement about the XU2 on another site...
Would this qualify as a dealer fitted V8 Turbo?

http://cgi.ebay.com....e=STRK:MEWAX:IT
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Posted 29 October 2010 - 05:03 PM

Don't quite understand what you are asking?

I doubt this was ever fitted by a dealer, but there were a few aftermarket kits around at the time. �And it is a drawthru setup, not blowthru as the seller says.�

Hope that helps you,

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Posted 03 November 2010 - 09:48 AM

Don't quite understand what you are asking?

I doubt this was ever fitted by a dealer, but there were a few aftermarket kits around at the time. And it is a drawthru setup, not blowthru as the seller says.

Hope that helps you,

Grant..



Sorry, my response there did not relate to the original question in the thread about a dealer fitted Turbo to the V8.
I do know it is a draw through, but, have a look at the VERY factory looking CAST offside exhaust manifold....

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Posted 03 November 2010 - 01:01 PM


Don't quite understand what you are asking?

I doubt this was ever fitted by a dealer, but there were a few aftermarket kits around at the time. And it is a drawthru setup, not blowthru as the seller says.

Hope that helps you,

Grant..



Sorry, my response there did not relate to the original question in the thread about a dealer fitted Turbo to the V8.
I do know it is a draw through, but, have a look at the VERY factory looking CAST offside (edit: sorry near side) exhaust manifold....


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Posted 18 November 2011 - 05:31 PM

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Edited by xu2308, 17 February 2018 - 04:02 AM.

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Posted 22 November 2011 - 08:58 PM

on another note,,, there are some fading old memories out there, the only thing wrong with the wise stories that come from old men in a bar or from anywhere is every time you hear them thay change... im not putting shit on anyone or disrespecting any of how old race legends.

cheers gong

That is why we ask more than one.........and we have a register into the dozens of contacts now, don't we Laz.......
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