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 wombatone
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 posted on March 28th, 2004 at 05:56 PM |
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Old School FV racing
Next year is the 40th year of FV so I have decided to pull my old mans FV out once more. I is the original Elfin FV built in 1964. There is one
small problem, I drove it into a wall at Winton a few years a go and its looking pretty sad. Here are some pic of it in the day, and hopefully what
it will look like again.
[IMG]http://www.muchos.co.uk/members/wombatone/FV _ Me.jpg[/IMG]
that's me with the helmet on. if only I could reach the pedals.
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cray
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| posted on March 28th, 2004 at 08:18 PM |
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awesome. 
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tassupervee
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| posted on March 28th, 2004 at 08:28 PM |
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Nice old Elfin tubeframe dude.
I thought you'd appreciate my old Elfin. Its a '69 with Nimbus Mk11 bodywork.
[Edited on 28/3/04 by tassupervee]
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Im not a complete idiot, quite a few parts are missing....
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tassupervee
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| posted on March 28th, 2004 at 08:31 PM |
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And this!
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Im not a complete idiot, quite a few parts are missing....
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wombatone
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| posted on March 29th, 2004 at 08:58 PM |
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Thats a nice nimbus. Talking of tubeframes, here is one we have have for years. as you can see i've alway like being behind the wheel.
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Buggyboy
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| posted on April 4th, 2004 at 10:30 PM |
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Here's mine
Mine is a 72 Stag- Photo taken last weekend at the Qld Raceway.
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Craig Torrens
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| posted on April 4th, 2004 at 10:35 PM |
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| Quote: | Originally
posted by tassupervee
Nice old Elfin tubeframe dude.
I thought you'd appreciate my old Elfin. Its a '69 with Nimbus Mk11 bodywork.
[Edited on 28/3/04 by tassupervee]
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Is that at Bakerfield ? 10k's out of Hobart ?
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wombatone
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| posted on April 6th, 2004 at 03:08 PM |
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Hi there buggyboy it's good to some of these old FV's out and about. How often do you race it?
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| posted on April 6th, 2004 at 09:30 PM |
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I have a 1969 Standfast that currently has Stag bodywork on it...I have tracked down the original open nose bodywork which was moulded off a mid 60's
Repco Brabham.
The motor is in bits at the moment after I ran a bearing at Eastern Creek last year. Rebuild will include an bigger sump, external cooler and filter.
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Murph
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| posted on April 6th, 2004 at 09:39 PM |
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Old school racing is not always smooth sailing, especially on 10 yr old tyres  I have since shouted myself a new set of tyres and the difference is amazing! I have also bought a set of Mangles for it. In the last race of
the day on the day the photos were taken I put it into the tyre barrier and got a free ride back to the pits in the medical emergency car. 
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[Edited on 6-4-2004 by Murph]
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Buggyboy
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| posted on April 9th, 2004 at 12:02 AM |
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Racing
I dont race it as such, just enter in historic sprints which are becoming more popular. I cant justify the $480 licence fee. But I would probably
compete in it around 6 times a year- great fun for little amount of $$$$
I much prefer the older racers...
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Craig Torrens
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| posted on April 9th, 2004 at 12:43 AM |
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| Quote: | Originally
posted by Murph
The motor is in bits at the moment after I ran a bearing at Eastern Creek last year. Rebuild will include an bigger sump, external cooler and filter.
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To stop oil surge, get an anti surge sump from Stan Pobjoy. This will stop you running bearings. Most of the circuit racing and hillclimb Dubs are
using one.
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| posted on April 9th, 2004 at 03:50 AM |
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Yeh forget the deep sump, u need Stans sump, especially for the corner forces that u can get on the track, an external oil cooler will help u
dramatically on the track as well.
Jak
Congratulations to Ben Durie for breaking the hillclimb record at Ringwood in his stroker beetle!
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Murph
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| posted on April 10th, 2004 at 09:45 PM |
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I'm not 100% sure we can use the pobjoy sump in Vee competion...I thought it was too big. (ie too much oil capacity increase)
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