OK guys. The challenge is on.
Yesterday, Brendon Manion’s RF40 (the car that was entered in this year’s Targa Tasmania) was officially clocked at 282 km/h!!! (176.25mph). No, this isn’t a tall tale about the day we buzzed a quiet little country town with the local constabulary on tow. This run was done at Avalon Airfield in country Victoria, as part of an article for Motor Magazine. The article lined up some of the fastest cars in Australia and used a speed trap to get the actual speed (as opposed to the speed on the clock, which apparently had the needle butted up against the end-stop beyond 300km/h). Tacho, I’m told, sat on a cool 6,800 RPM. Hmmm maybe with a slightly taller final drive ratio… who knows??? The pilot was a well-known local race-car driver come media personality, by the name of Cameron McConville. It was interesting to hear that he made some pretty positive comments about the stability of the RF40, both at speed and under hard braking.
The car itself was basically standard with one of Gordon Levy’s Stage 3 engines putting its power through a 3U 016 Audi transaxle (who said that these gear boxes can’t handle 350+ horsepower /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif ). The single nostril was used and a set of secondary restraint pins helped hold down the rear clip (just to be sure). The article should be out in the August or September issue. Can’t wait to read it.
Yesterday, Brendon Manion’s RF40 (the car that was entered in this year’s Targa Tasmania) was officially clocked at 282 km/h!!! (176.25mph). No, this isn’t a tall tale about the day we buzzed a quiet little country town with the local constabulary on tow. This run was done at Avalon Airfield in country Victoria, as part of an article for Motor Magazine. The article lined up some of the fastest cars in Australia and used a speed trap to get the actual speed (as opposed to the speed on the clock, which apparently had the needle butted up against the end-stop beyond 300km/h). Tacho, I’m told, sat on a cool 6,800 RPM. Hmmm maybe with a slightly taller final drive ratio… who knows??? The pilot was a well-known local race-car driver come media personality, by the name of Cameron McConville. It was interesting to hear that he made some pretty positive comments about the stability of the RF40, both at speed and under hard braking.
The car itself was basically standard with one of Gordon Levy’s Stage 3 engines putting its power through a 3U 016 Audi transaxle (who said that these gear boxes can’t handle 350+ horsepower /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif ). The single nostril was used and a set of secondary restraint pins helped hold down the rear clip (just to be sure). The article should be out in the August or September issue. Can’t wait to read it.
