Super Sideplate - Barry Goongs Eleven.49 Instant Greyness Motor

SUPER SIDEPLATE

LONG earlier the pocket-size-block cHEV arrived inward Commonwealth of Australia in large numbers, the dominant GM motor inward the Aussie street, drag too speedway scenes was Holden'second sideplate half dozen. A massive go-fast industry sprang upward about it, providing all sots of goodies to brand the General'sec venerable 6 become harder, Queenslander Barry Goong built the Ouickest example e'er.

THE QUEENSPORT CREW
BARRY was ane of the founding fathers of the Queensport Drag Racing Club, a grouping of Brisbane boys who built tons of fast cars during the belatedly 60s as well as 70s together with fifty-fifty ran unofficial meetings at what was known every bit Fort Lytton Dragway, complete with Christmas tree together with ice-cream van! Barry's commencement contest automobile was a slingshot dragster powered by a Holden grayness in addition to known equally The Chizler. This was inwards '69 too the newer carmine motor was starting to erode the grey's popularity merely there was a lot of skillful speed gear around for the sometime sideplate, then Barry stuck amongst it.

BLOWN BY NORMAN
"We built the dragster ourselves, it used an FE gearbox as well as cutting-downward FE diff:" he says. "Early on, I bought a Norman supercharger from Cliff Kiss. It came alongside a footling intercooler as well as we got close to pipes made up and so it looked actually flash. We went 12.59 alongside the blower on it just never got the hang of it. I too tried an injection ready-upwards merely it really came together alongside merely a gear up of triple SUs." It came together and then well that Barry not solely won his form at the 1970 Nationals only claimed the D/Dragster record amongst an eleven.49 — however thought to live the quickest grayness-powered run always.

THE RECIPE
"It was just a good engine. We ran it for 3 or four years without a job and later on that it went to a bloke who lay it inwards a midget speedcar as well as he won a few titles besides! It was a good combination; 151 ci, piddling lumpy pistons, an Ivan Tighe cam too the caput worked over by Trade Polishers," Barry says. "The alone drama nosotros ever had amongst it was camshaft gears!' After The Chizler, Barry was involved amongst edifice a V8-powered wheel for young man Queensport fellow member Wally Pushke in addition to as well teamed up amongst Cliff Kiss to race an A/Dragster powered past a blown Chrysler V8. "The irony is, the A/Dragster never went quicker than the one-time gray!" Barry says.