Go the Lion !

Great Result.

There Is No Replacement For Displacement.

Put a sock in it Byron LOL, It was a Holden badged car and body. Go Holden

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Originally posted by HK1837
How good (as in impressive) was that crash by the Bundy Commodore?

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Right on Conrad straight (according to Fox News)

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Originally posted by HK1837
To be fair, Chev won Bathurst! They don't run Holden or GM Powertrain spec engines any more.

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Was Larry Perkins the last one to win with a Holden Engine??

if so.. what year?

Or what year did an aussie engine last win it??

Perkins won Bathurst in 93 in a VP

the code XU2 was given to the SLR5000, even in the parts book xu2 is shown as a decal on the front guard of an LH.

Where do I start?

1. Leanne Tander was not driving a Phase 4, she was driving an XA GT modified to Sports sedan regs, it was not a Group C touring car. There is a very real chance that is was just a GT replica to boot, with the insane prices of these cars, why would anyone race a genuine GT. Those model Camaros & Mustangs were never allowed even in Group C anyway. An XU2 is an LH/LX SL/R5000 not an LJ V8 XU1.

2. The last 'real' Holden to win at Bathurst was in 1972, when Brocky won in an LJ XU1. Group C (1973 to 1984) & Group A (1985 to 1992), whilst interesting, were still modified cars. True, they were much closer to factory specs than V8 Supercars, they were none the less not 100% real Holdens.

3. If you stretch the discussion further & say that any car with a space-frame chassis is not a 'real' car' then Group C & Group A would both be considered 'real'. as a matter of fact, in the early days of V8 racing (1993 to 1995) before they were renamed V8 Supercars, they still had a full factory body shell.

4. Perkins won Bathurst in 1993, 1995 & 1997, from memory he used a Holden motor in both 1993 & 1995. He only changed to the Chev style Nascar motor because of economy of scale. Chev stuff was plentiful & easily available off the shelf whereas he had to custom build most of the bits for his Holden. He stated at the time that the Chev had no real performance advantage, it just cost less to build.

5. The current 'Chev' motor is essentially a current GM Powertrain Nascar engine de-stroked to 5-litre & fitted with a home-grown injected inlet plenum. The heads are 'Aurora' style, not SBC style, with the ports arranged in the same order as EFI Holden V8s & Cleveland V8s.

6. It's difficult to say which version of Bathurst is 'best' & while V8 Supercars could be a lot better, Series Prod, Group C & Group A all had their problems.

Dr Terry



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Jim in Adelaide..

Yes but it was a current production engine, hence why I credited the later Fords with running an Aussie engine (at least until the 302W finished).

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