![]() ![]() His was the last Holden V8 to run, at the pointy end, anyway. I recall Larry Perkins being the last to run the Walkinshaw VL Commodore that was near the front of the field, but he was eventually forced to upgrade also. I'm not sure now, but possibly the Chevy engine was allowed in prior to the V8 Supercar class coming about. Getting the greater number of beer-swillers on the hill, in other words. ![]() sponsorship bucks) and perceived spectator interest. But a TV commentator thought he should rewrite the rulebook and squeeze out everyone but the 'homegrown' V8s in the interests of manufacturer interest (ie. They ran against BMWs and Ford Sierras and other makes at that time. These required the original block and heads, and some other bits, so the Holden V8 was necessary. Up until then it was Touring Cars built to the National rules, whatever they were called at the time (Group C?). They weren't 'V8 Supercars' until about '94 anyway. (I believe teams were able to run either engine for a year or so due to vagaries in the rules, or so I recall from one trip over there.) The Fords all run a basic D3 combination which is essentially a five-liter version of the current NASCAR engine. In V8 Supercars, Holdens ran the genuine Holden V8 until around '94ish, at which point they switched to a smallblock Chevy, until around 2004-05 when they switched to the GM LS1 family. I have not been over there for a few years and I may be off a bit, so perhaps the natives will be kind enough to correct me as necessary. The 302 from down under was a Cleveland 302 both in heads and blocks, I cannot say for abolutely sure, but I believe this was also the engine used in the 302 Capri sold in South Africa. They are named for the original plants built atĪustralian Ford Cleveland heads were much used by US Ford die-hards in the seventies and eighties when Ford did not have a hi-po catalog.Īustralia had a unique Cleveland head easier to work with than US variants. There was also smogged cleveland call mod but a real dog vs the older motors/heads No idea when your ford quit the cleveland in both 4v and 2v form Ĥv heads were race/leaded hi test only, 2v for street motors post unleaded gas ![]() Nasty car switched from the older clevelands to windsor some years agoīut many years after ford no longer used the cleveland motor in carsīut still banns OHC motors so the motor is still in production for nastycarĪnd used in boats and other race off road stuff ect Used in 5.0 mustang's intill the 4.6 and then droped EXCPT for nastycar Windsor was a econ motor but now is the only one still made in the usaĬleveland tooling was sent down under but hot-rodders reimported some stuff for years The boss 351 was a cleveland a wider headed more HI-PO motor with better flow There are two small block ford familys post 69-70 ![]()
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