Probably been overdoing it with the Youtube videos lately, however I couldnt pass this one up. Enjoy :-)

 

Thanks Steve, another night wasted watching youtube and now I want to do Targa Tassie.

 

Glad to be of assistance young Ken, that would be a worthy project for your club :-)

 

Thanks Steve . . . you have cheered me no end with that great clip from Targa Tassie 2014.

Haven't heard music like that for 20 years or more. And back then, it wasn't even a car. Hawkesbury River, and our floating rocket ship "Jagged" celebrated its newly fitted engine with an Australian class win (Unlimited 6Litre Hydro). Later XJS V12 engine, bored to full 6Litres; with half wave headers leading into twin race prepped Toyota Supra turbochargers pressure limited to 3.0Bar; then a long tuned megaphone pipe from each turbo and each pumping 250L/min water injection. The howl at full throttle was quite remarkable.

Largest V-Drive box we could get was a German ZF (maker of our later S-Type autos) rated just beyond the limit of the estimated 750SHP plus @ 8100RPM. Estimated "plus" coz the biggest shaft-input dyno we could access then was 750SHP and that came up at 7700RPM.

She was a prop-rider of the first order, and the young chap who piloted our rocket was near unbeatable . . . until the crash late in our second season. The engine was salvaged, rebuilt and saw (sees?) out its life somewhere up in Qld still with de-tuned twin turbos but no water gear and no methanol , competing until much later (lost track after further sale about 2004) in historic racing in . . . you guessed it . . . an XJS.
Thanks for the memories,
Ken