Not just a earth-shaker inwards these days of six moment dragsters yous might mean only inward the field of stock bodied sideplate engined Holdens a mid-14 is or so-thing else again—unique.
Only three cars in Australian drag racing take achieved a "magic" xiv from sideplate power inward a Holden sedan, and two of these but cracked the barrier amongst xiv.98s together with nines.
It had become more often than not accepted amid sideplate afficionados that a fourteen meant a lot of luck, a scattered engine or both. However, in that location was ane crusader amidst their ranks who believed otherwise.
Graham Cumming, a young Sydney racer who campaigns a peculiarly smart FJ named appropriately "Crusader" caused scarcely a ripple inwards the drag racing sea when he sped to a xiv.99 elapsed fourth dimension at Sydney International late terminal yr.
A 14.88 at SID early on this year started people talking withal, every bit no sideplate sedan had ever gone this rapidly. When Graham and married woman Nolene Cumming hauled the car to Surfers for the Easter Tin Top Titles too scorch-ed the slick rails amongst a xiv.87 fame (although sadly non fortune) was theirs. That their machine is cap-able of consistent times inwards the 14s was amply displayed at the April see at SID when Graham posted xiv.94, xiv.86, 14.76 together with capped it all amongst a shattering fourteen.67/93.85 boom from the high spinning sideplate.
Graham Cumming is understandably happy with his machine together with its recent performances although inward common drag racing style is constantly striving for some other tenth, a few more than miles an hr. His immediate ambition is to work a hundred inwards the quarter with his present automobile together with he believes that although half dozen tenths away at the second a thirteen is not impossible". The acquaint "Crusader", minute FJ to conduct the name is the effect of constant development.
Tipping the scales at 2008 pounds moisture, Graham estimates that the "Crusader'second" engine is putting out something similar 190 horses at the flywheel—and living at the viii K summation it gets screwed to regularly.
The engine came from a '62 EK and is bored to 31Ain. The holes are filled amongst Westlite 12:i pistons amongst measure GMH rings too stock rods swing on the balanced crank amongst Vandervell bearings. Cumming, different other sideplate racers, has experienced no crank or bearing, trouble—in fact the present set up of bearings has been inward the engine "most 14 months" says the owner. He uses a stock crude oil ticker delivering about 45-50 lbs. pres-sure, a stock size sump ("I don't agree amongst all this large sump too high fossil oil force per unit area concern") too Kendall GT racing crude oil. The cam inwards the sideplate screamer came from Bert Jones in addition to has twoscore/80 timing specs. Solid lifters, as well from Bert Jones, are used together with tubular pushrods activating the stock rocker gear which has aluminum spacers inward home of the master springs.
Graham attributes much of the machine'sec functioning to the super head job, the function of Doug Forbes who runs Doug'sec Porting Service as well as shares a workshop with Neville Alder's Performance Engineering at Brookvale, where Cumming himself is employed every bit a motor mechanic. The caput has large-xiii/4in. inlet too eleven/2in. exhaust valves—big ports, large chambers—large every-affair. Ninety thou was removed from the face for an overall compression ratio in the part of xiii:i which fifty-fifty the particular cop-per asbestos caput gaskets from Robbie Mac'sec Pittwater Road Speed Shop find difficult to incorporate.
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| LOOKING into a futurity of more fourteen second times is possessor/builder of the record-breaking "Crusader", 26-year-onetime Sydney mechanic Graham Cumming (higher up). 2000 lb rar shows show of weight reduction—bank bill absence of front bumper in addition to rock tray. Engine (below) has Armour manifold, triple ii inch SUs, Genie extractors, churns out 190 sugariness sounding horsepower. |
115/145 Esso racing fuel is stored in the stock fuel tank too is pumped through measure lines past a Cooper "southward" pusher type electric ticker to three i 3/4in. SU carburettors on an Armour manifold. The carbs were mounted, gear up and tuned past Cumming who inwards fact performs all the maintenance on the automobile. After trying diverse unlike exhaust configurations Graham has constitute the presently fitted Genie extractors to reach the best performance. Ignition features a Mallory twin-point distributor modified by Bert Jones, a Bosch scroll alongside seven-volt resistor firing Champion J6 plugs. Robbie Mac'sec Speed Shop helps the squad inward the plug section.
Those 190 sideplate horses go out the crank via a one thousand&thousand steel flywheel in addition to pressure level plate in addition to a stock 186S clutch plate. Trans-mission is a GTR Torana unit with 4 all synchro ratios as well as a custom T-bar shifter.
The crankshaft flywheel as well as clutch assembly received the total residuum process ment at Alder Performance Engineering. The bring up cease fitted to "Crusader" came from a '56 Chev in addition to carries imported Zoom iv.88:1 ratio gears.
Rear suspension comprises FJ foliage springs (with the shackle reversed on the right) as well as Armstrong l/50 shocks. Peter Amiott (of 289 Falcon fame) made the lift bars which, according to Graham "go simply fine!" Completing the place-it-to-the-ground section are a yoke of 150 compound 750 ten 14 thousand&H slicks which, reports Graham are simply the matter for a motorcar of this weight together with horse-ability.
Front pause of "Crusader" is all FJ alongside the exception of the ninety/x Arm-potent shocks fitted. In keeping amongst modified product grade allowances all excess fittings have been re-moved from the interior of the automobile, the forepart place beingness replaced amongst ii Morris G bucket seats.
A MaxRob forest rim steering bicycle replaces the FJ item together with instrumentation consists of Smiths tacho, redlined at 8000, petroleum in addition to temperature gauges. All side window glass has been re-placed alongside perspex, supplied past Alder Performance Engineering although the torso remains original, all steel.
Paintwork is basically orangish alongside lime light-green in addition to maroon strips, the work of Warren Amiott, spell the pull a fast one on sign-operate was applied by Sandy Signs. Graham Cumming is no novel-comer to drag racing. The 26-twelvemonth-old mechanic used a Repco Holden engined MG in com-petition vii years agone, clock-ing dead 14s and so campaigned an FJ inwards the due east/MS ranks.
The next Cumming entry was the commencement "Crusader", an FJ ute which had a best fourth dimension of xvi.03, posted at the 1970 NSW Championships. Graham has been running the acquaint motorcar for only over a twelvemonth and intends to persevere amongst it until after the 1972 Mr. Holden meet (lookout out side-plates!) when plans revolve around a rails amongst the current engine. Cumming has his sights on Brenton Wight'second ten.89 D/ Dragster time, and if determination too ingenuity are of whatever value we take no doubtfulness that it is good within his accomplish.
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