Thread: Larry Perkins,...Land Rovers?

Originally Posted by lyonsy

right injectors and a larger turbo with a std 425hp program will put 700-800hp on the ground with a pre acert c15.
banging codes in will work but will effect cooling much more then building for it.

would of been interesting to see what larry could of done with simerler funding to hrt

Agreed, building for the HP is far better but much more to me consuming, so I think that's why codes make such good money. They also fudge the road speed so another bonus for the operator that doesn't care much for the law - not condoning that, but it happens way too much.

Originally Posted by scarry

Late one day,early October 1993 and 1995 he looked absolutely delighted 😉

Earlier one of those days he wasn't to delighted with a young Loundes.

Absolutely! I remember as a young flaggy watching him freakin detonate at Amaroo when the pit lane shut on him. He's been my favourite driver ever since (seriously)!

Originally Posted by Slunnie

Absolutely! I remember as a young flaggy watching him freakin detonate at Amaroo when the pit lane shut on him. He's been my favourite driver ever since (seriously)!

Aaahhh, Amaroo (and Oran Park). Those were the days.

Originally Posted by pop058

Aaahhh, Amaroo (and Oran Park). Those were the days.

Don't forget Surfers and Lakeside.

Not only an experienced driver,raced overseas,etc,but had great engineering talents.

His team was the first to run Bathurst on one set of brake pads.

Then they changed the rules.

They also ran the Holden v8,and won against the others with the newer Chevs.

Straight shooter,didn't hold back,which was great.

What i find interesting is the sons of those great racers of that era,didn't do anywhere near as well as their fathers.

Think Richards,Johnson,Perkins,Brock(stepson),and others.

Originally Posted by V8Ian

Don't forget Surfers and Lakeside.

Was involved with the HQs and Prody Cars and only got to Lakeside a couples of times and never to Surfers. We were based in western Sydney ATT so Oran Park (and then Eastern Creek) was the home track. I worked at Quakers Hill and Amaroo was nice and close. We were at the final meet at Amaroo, strangly very emotional.

Dug out some nostalgia. My old XE dragging the 626 back from (IIRC) the trip to Lakeside.

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Originally Posted by scarry

Not only an experienced driver,raced overseas,etc,but had great engineering talents.

His team was the first to run Bathurst on one set of brake pads.

Then they changed the rules.

They also ran the Holden v8,and won against the others with the newer Chevs.

Straight shooter,didn't hold back,which was great.

What i find interesting is the sons of those great racers of that era,didn't do anywhere near as well as their fathers.

Think Richards,Johnson,Perkins,Brock(stepson),and others.

The things I love about him. Being the engineer, he was also one of the last to move to centre lock nuts.

That last series Holden V8 was an interesting one. He worked the rules over really well, no doubt a ruthless trait learnt in F1. Not allowed to fill the ports in the heads, but you could remove material. I assume this was to allow porting but not reshaping. Those last V8s had caps bolted (iirc) inside the inlet ports to smooth out the flow... and win Bathurst.

Really good point about the sons of the greats. Steven Richards has been the only one who has been able to hold his own career as a noted driver.

Originally Posted by pop058

Was involved with the HQs and Prody Cars and only got to Lakeside a couples of times and never to Surfers. We were based in western Sydney ATT so Oran Park (and then Eastern Creek) was the home track. I worked at Quakers Hill and Amaroo was nice and close. We were at the final meet at Amaroo, strangly very emotional.

Dug out some nostalgia. My old XE dragging the 626 back from (IIRC) the trip to Lakeside.

img965.jpg

I only was a spectator at SP, but used to flag at Lakeside (when it was in the scrub).