Fandatstick,

The 130 HP is very believable out of a 1300, I have always been told a full out A14 is around 175HP and a full out A12 about 140HP. The numbers from the dyno sheets I've seen appear to be pretty close. I would imagine that the motor revved to 9500-9800 range, had 14-1 compression and needed rebuilding after every meet.

As for motorcycle carbs becoming fashionable "again" , that's not true...... they have never gone out of fashion.............ever since I saw a set of Lectron Flatslides on a Yamaha GP bike I thought they were the business. Of course the Flatslides on my car were installed because I got a deal on them...........but regardless they still rock.

Naturally since I started racing bikes first so I'm biased, now if I can just get a pallet of TZ750 engines we could make a 1500cc V8 two stroke....................screaming buzz bomb sequential box.............blue haze, smell of bean oil in the morning, what's not to love............OK back on topic.

Tom

I think from way back in the memory bank that Warren Steels "Bluebird" was a Datsun 1600.

was just going to say that car is a 160j, not a 1200. awesome to see these old photos. I wasn't aware that the bluebirds were so competitive, is says warren steele won in 1985 in a bluebird? Would have thought a 1200 would have been much quicker but oh well there you go. shellsport was a bit before my time but a lot of these cars were around in early ss2000 years, it was great to watch. still is one of the better NZ classes to watch, just need more old cars to go head to head with the hondas, evos silvias, etc...

The Cook car, in the South Island photo, is a 160J. It had a ?lt L series when first built and raced in under 2 lt Shellsport. The Cook Bluebird was originally built with a 6 Cyl L Series for outright competition, was unsuccesful and turned back into a 2 lt and sold after a while, it is the same car in the picture with Burrows driving in 2 lt form.
The first photo on that forum is Cooks Sunny, it was an a series engine for Shellsport but would often run an l series at outright meetings, it wasn't unusual to see them change engines after the last Shellsport race of the weekend and enter the last outright race with the "stump puller"
The Marsh coupe was also originally built and raced by Cook.

I had to look very close.

The Cook Datsun which says 2 LITRE looks like a 1200 with body kit, but I think it is an A10 (Stanza/510).

A lot of the 1200s turned out to be early Escorts. They look so much alike I wonder if Ford copied them.

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Engine capacity limit was 2L. My understanding is they had to run the original engine block and that Tony Marsh's car won the 1984 championship running a very powerful 1300 (reputedly 160hp) on motorcycle carbs (yes just like is 'fashionable' again now). This was the car which had been lowered by raising the floor/chassis, engine set back 12" etc Marsh coupe - it was black when he raced it. Very trick racecar...

So what were the engine rules, could you just bore the thing out to hog heaven or did they use 1300cc etc. They look like our GT classes (tube frame and semi tube frame) lots of stuff allowed but you had to keep the same block and basic suspension layouts.

Tom

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hahahaha 1200 coupe wins in the 80s legend

Imagine they allowed a 1000 with an A16 :)

Thats a great website, I only spent three hours on there last night!

I noticed one of the 1200's said "2 liter" one the side? Did these cars run an A-series engine or did they run L-series??


Tom