When i was living in sydney i bought an x pursuit vc comm from the auctions.They were special homologated versions for the police and helped the hdt to get a few extra mods for the touring cars of that era.They had L34 spec heads and rods with a 750 holley and genie extractors and different inlet manifold.The camshaft has TQ30 stamped on the end and had a bit of a lump at idle.A few years later a mate was working for Rymec turbochargers and did quite a few mods on several pursuit cars that were used to catch the porsches in the snowy mountains area.Apparently they used some porsches themselves in later years.
Terry Rudd wrote: > Most of the police cars in Canberra are bought from SA with some sort of > Police Special Pak. Most of them seem to go OK, but the interesting one was > a trial of a Volvo station wagon, 5 cyl turbo thing that looked a treat - > but they crashed it badly whilst chasing a well know local Soobie. Back in > the 70's they had a lot of XY, XA & XB 351 Fairmonts built specially for > chasing work, with Genie tuned headers & 750 Holley, big wheels & brakes > etc - they are still around and very much sought after vehicles by the local > petrol heads. Same thing with the bikes used in the early days and ppl pay > stupid prices for them, but that's the same supply and demand thing with a > 1600. > > regards, > Terry > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Brad Hallett > Sent: Sunday, 29 September 2002 3:23 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: RE: Off Topic > > Hehehehe I like it - good bite > > Police vehicles, in NZ, Australia and Britain, are not permitted to have > performance enhancing modifications unless for specialist duty such as > counter terrorism. They can however have factory high performance > options fitted. The Falcons you refer to were actually low volume > performance jobs that were available to the public. In Australia we had > the BT51 turbo Commodore and believe it or not a few HiPo Camiras > (yucko). The restrictions come from workplace health and safety issues > and resale. > > Which brings me to another point, anyone remember the Cordia turbo > traffic cars and the Giacollata (?) > --membersozdat------------------------------------------------------- OZDAT Mailing List Please Note:- Send (un)subscribe requests to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Send submissions to [EMAIL PROTECTED] No unauthorised redistribution of this email http://www.ozdat.com/ozdatonline/index.htm http://www.ozdat.com/ozdatonline/listindex.html http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------
