Thread: Is this for real?!?

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HAHAHAAAA

Thought it was sus.

Hey Pop, V8 supercars are 6 or 6.2lt

Originally Posted by Corgie Carrier

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HAHAHAAAA

Thought it was sus.

Hey Pop, V8 supercars are 6 or 6.2lt

I sent him my gmail address just to see what would happen. Getting removed from eBay didn't stop him from asking me to send the money! I emailed back that I wanted to inspect the vehicle and the rego papers and the proof of ownership papers.

I haven't heard back!

Willem

Originally Posted by Corgie Carrier

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HAHAHAAAA

Thought it was sus.

Hey Pop, V8 supercars are 6 or 6.2lt

CC.

no they are not. the V8 supercars are 5lt OHV pushrod motors. The road versions (blue and red) do not use the same motor as the race cars

Paul

I was told that this year they went to 6lt, but I just checked the team web sites and you are right.

I stand corrected, they are all 5lt.

As far as I'm aware the V8 Supercars still use the old cast iron 5 litre engines that basically disappeared from the production Holden and Ford cars in the late 90's. The engines are basically control engines that are aimed at keeping the HP race and thus the big dollar spend in check in a class of car racing that only the richest people or some of largest companies in Australia can afford to compete in competitively. The engines while old school technology are very highly modified with the greatest advances done lately through their engine management systems.

If you take the car bodies off of any V8 Supercar you will find many of the main parts like diffs, gearboxes etc that are exactly the same on both the Ford and Holden.

They couldn't allow the latest production engines to be used because the Holden would have a huge HP advantage with it's new Corvette based 6.2 litre engine in the HSV's. The Fords have what is basically a stroked truck engine that was first put together in Australia from the Fords spare parts bins from around the world when they couldn't source a decent engine to match the Chev gear being used in Holdens. As far as I know no other Ford car uses this engine anywhere and its capacity is only 5.4 litres. Ford claims similar HP outputs to the Holden but in the real world one engine is fast and one is not.

The 6.2 litre Gen 4 engine in the latest HSV's is a weapon producing 317 kilowatts or about 425 hp in old speak. Still compared to a V8 Supercar with the hot rodded old cast iron motor of only 5 litres it is a real slug. But to try and compare these 5 litre engines with their old production cousins is a mistake as apart from blocks etc they don't have much in common.

I only recently sold a three month old 09 model HSV because I had just moved to a farm since buying the car and couldn't stand it being wrecked on the dirt roads. It was lots of fun to flog around Eastern Creek and Wakefield Park Raceways but wasn't to good on the dirt roads so now I'm looking for a good second hand Discovery which will be better suited to potholes and cow poo.


Regards,
Terry O'Neill

I think you will find that the current Holdens use a Chev based engine (307), not the Holden 5 litre (308/304).