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Re: Harv's FED thread
Posted: Mon Mar 24, 2025 3:34 pm
by Blacky
Re: Harv's FED thread
Posted: Tue Mar 25, 2025 12:38 pm
by BS
Harv wrote:If I’m home from work, I’ll be there. Fingers crossed for the FED. Unsure if I could run the wagon. Be great seeing some HAMBstrs run. Wonder if Spanners is coming?
Cheers,
Harv
I’m sure we can twist his arm. I have mentioned it to him is discussions. He was going to come up for the May nostalgia fest at Willowbank which has since been canned.
I bet you’re excited for your special delivery. Did Galloway do all the work including the head?
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Re: Harv's FED thread
Posted: Tue Mar 25, 2025 4:01 pm
by Harv
BS wrote: Tue Mar 25, 2025 12:38 pm
Harv wrote:If I’m home from work, I’ll be there. Fingers crossed for the FED. Unsure if I could run the wagon. Be great seeing some HAMBstrs run. Wonder if Spanners is coming?
Cheers,
Harv
I’m sure we can twist his arm. I have mentioned it to him is discussions. He was going to come up for the May nostalgia fest at Willowbank which has since been canned.
I bet you’re excited for your special delivery. Did Galloway do all the work including the head?
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3 days to Christmas
HSD did the head. Intended for Galloway to o-ring the head and the blocl so sent the head over to WA. Not enough clearance to get the o-ring in, so they only grooved the block to set the o-ring (no receiver groove).
Cheers,
Harv
Re: Harv's FED thread
Posted: Tue Mar 25, 2025 4:17 pm
by Dr Terry
Harv wrote: Tue Mar 25, 2025 4:01 pm
HSD did the head. Intended for Galloway to o-ring the head and the blocl so sent the head over to WA. Not enough clearance to get the o-ring in, so they only grooved the block to set the o-ring (no receiver groove).
Cheers,
Harv
We had a 350 SBC V8 Monaro at the old Castlereagh strip & ran o-ringed block, solid copper head gaskets & a flat faced head. We ran consistent low 10 secs (not bad for an SS/AA car in 1983-84) & used NOS for the whole 1/4 mile. Never had a head gasket issue.
Dr Terry
Re: Harv's FED thread
Posted: Wed Mar 26, 2025 6:52 am
by Harv
Thanks Terry.
The FED will probably only see 15psi max of boost pressure, so should be OK without a receiver ring.
It will run in Modified, so will need to be quicker than 10.99. I only know of one grey that has ever run the quarter that quick (Dennis Paul's Resurrection E/dragster FED, 27th of January 1980 at SPIR ran 10.83s). Suspect it will be a fair journey for me to get it to run that quick, but the fun will be in the trying. Modified will let me run nitrous, but not on a blown motor.
Cheers,
Harv
Re: Harv's FED thread
Posted: Wed Mar 26, 2025 8:01 am
by Dr Terry
Harv wrote: Wed Mar 26, 2025 6:52 amModified will let me run nitrous, but not on a blown motor
Is that right. When we raced, super sedan & modified had the same basic engine rules. If you had a supercharger, a turbocharger or nitrous that put you into AA, BB or CC. But you could run any combination of those. We had guys running turbos over a supercharger & nitrous on a turbo etc.etc.
Sounds like rules have changed over time.
Dr Terry
Re: Harv's FED thread
Posted: Wed Mar 26, 2025 11:04 am
by Harv
Australian drag racing rules are worse than engineering a car

. Smokey Yunick would have a field day.
In theory, Eastern Creek is an IHRA track. It runs the IHRA rulebook:
https://www.ihraracer.com/competition/rulebook/
... but then adds it's own IHRA Australia rules on top of that:
https://www.ihra.com.au/IHRA_Australia_ ... ations.pdf
It also caters for the ANDRA certified cars that come from interstate, using these rules:
https://www.andra.com.au/wp-content/upl ... 220206.pdf
The guidance has been written accumulatively over years, and does not read intuitively. My education is OK, but I struggle with it.
You then get to talk to a tech inspector, who has views on what can and cannot be done. They are nice blokes, and try to help you get your head around what is written in the above guidance.
ANDRA is perhaps the easiest to read if you want a "need to build a car to this class, what must I do" answer. They are pretty blunt:
Supercharging, Turbocharging or Nitrous Oxide injection is permitted in Modified Eliminator. In Modified Eliminator Turbocharged vehicles are permitted to also use Nitrous Oxide injection, however Supercharged vehicles are not.
My memory says the IHRA rules say the similar, but prohibit giggle gas on both supercharged AND turbo vehicles. I can't find the original IRHA guidance (need to look some more), but the IHRA Australia guidance talks to it and gives a little more leeway:
If turbocharged, then using Nitrous oxide injection. Allowed
For my Norman-blown motor, no blower-in-a-bottle unless I can convince a tech inspector otherwise.
Cheers,
Harv
Re: Harv's FED thread
Posted: Wed Mar 26, 2025 12:43 pm
by Blacky
Its not a blower it's a "belt driven turbocharger"

Re: Harv's FED thread
Posted: Thu Mar 27, 2025 8:07 am
by Dr Terry
You're right Harv, Smokey Yunick would have a field day.
Dr Terry
Re: Harv's FED thread
Posted: Thu Mar 27, 2025 7:23 pm
by Blacky
Re: Harv's FED thread
Posted: Fri Mar 28, 2025 6:47 am
by Harv
Not mine, but I suspect very similar.
Sitting by the front door today waiting for the courier. Sometime between 9 and 5.
Cheers,
Harv
Re: Harv's FED thread
Posted: Fri Mar 28, 2025 7:10 am
by Errol62
Hell yeah!
FB ute fixer upper, EK van on rotisserie
Re: Harv's FED thread
Posted: Fri Mar 28, 2025 2:10 pm
by FireKraka
Man check the size of those main bearing caps, must be trying to push a whole stamped of ponies through there.
Re: Harv's FED thread
Posted: Fri Mar 28, 2025 4:03 pm
by briby
Guess that's the best way to make up for the lack of more said caps. But it sure looks great.
Re: Harv's FED thread
Posted: Fri Mar 28, 2025 5:16 pm
by Harv