I'd love to have a front-mounted V6 1200. It will turn a corner, useful as a street car.

How many of you guys have driven one? I reckon you are talking theory, not actual experience.

Whomever did the V6 swap, good on ya.

Oh for sure its all theory, but theory baked up by a wealth of experience from around the world.

I havent dont it, but I did consider it in a 1k cause my old shell will be good for fark all.

Quote:Experience says the vehicle "won't go around corners"? That is ridiculous. You live in the country of large engines -- the Aussie muscle car. Look at that silly Torana with heavy engine in the front. Yet, it goes around corners and is not inherently a dangerous car. Or at least the AU government accepted its engineering...

Maybe what you meant to say is something like "a heavy engine is not optimal for handling and roadholding"?

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im hearing you DD!,.......hey!! there not silly torrie's .........they ARE one of australia's best cars ever to hit the roads, LOL

haha, didn't mean to diss the torana, I like the older ones, but that 80s model looks like a pig in a tuxedo. Well maybe that's not fair, I'm biased I guess because early '80s models here in USA were "sticker" muscle cars, cause only the stickers were fast. We had 155 HP V8s for a while, that was in the hot cars. Average sedans has 120 HP V8s. Early 80s were dark times (at least here) for car lovers.

Well on a comparison i have driven plenty of V8 LC & LJ Toranas Not a great deal heavier than 1200 coupe's and they feel like they are going to shake themselves to bits.

What the heck is a Torana? It doesn't quite look like a Vega in the US but it doesn't look like a Monza either~

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its a holden, the torana is one of the best australian build cars ever made just under the ford falcon GT

Heres a Torana LC GTR ( Also came out in base models and GTR XU-1 in LC and LJ) and a nice one at that Originally a straight 6 cylinder. People started dropping v8's in them in the late 70's early 80's
There was a prototype called the XU-2 same body but in the LJ has plastic grill and other newer style bits. It never launched but 3 were trialed at GMH testing plant. So later people started to build and register V8 ones some labelling them the XU-2. Could rattle on more but ya get the drift hopefully.

GGGGG that brings back memories seen that , one of my very first cars the LJ GTR, payed $2,780 back in 1973, now im showing my age