OK then car nuts, what was the best, most legendary Australian designed and built motor car engine.
My vote: Chrysler HEMI 265.
I like mine with triples:
Yep,
I had two cars with Hemis. First was a Chrysler Hardtop, 1970 model. Sort of looked like a Charger but was bigger at the back and fancier inside. It had a 245. Second was a 77 Charger. It was a great car that kept going till it rusted out. Thats what windsurfing does to old cars.
Though its unfashionable I quite liked the Holden V6 Ecotech motor from the 90s Commodores. I also like the Magna 3.5L motor. Out of them all I liked the Magna motor the most. Magnas have a sedate image but they go pretty fast.
Lol, i'm not that one eyed
The new supercharged 5 litre is better but not aussie made!
Actually i think the old nissan FJ's were aussie made. A really bulletproof engine.
IKW if you say aussie designed and built, what are the rules?
The 265 hemi was just a refinement of an existing Chrysler USA motor.
Not hard to get an existing moter and do comp, cam and carbs and make it go faster.
A brilliant motor for it's time but not techhhniiically aussie designed
MDSXR6T sounds a bit one-eyed lol but yeah that is a bloody top package. The new XR6T is a weapon. And veyr driveable, good bottom end and no flat spots
And yes the old FJ20T - 150kw from a 2l back in the early 80's AND it slotted straight into little Datto 1600's easy mmmm
I think you would be flat out finding an Aussie designed and built motor. My understanding from reading a lot of car magazines when I was younger, was that Australia would get the tooling for a motor that had already been done in the USA.
It sort of makes sense, as this equipment must have been expensive, and it would be sensible to re-use it somewhere.
I think even the 'Aussie' 308 was based on something else. (edit: Maybe more unique than I thought. It sounds like it was an Aussie design)
I think the Falcon Six was based on an earlier US design.
So, when do enough changes make a motor an 'Aussie Engine'?
Hey, I thought of one... maybe the 'Aussie' star-fire four
It would have been so bad, that no one else would have owned up to making it.
On a completely different tangent, I think Nissan based some of its early engines on Morris engines didn't they? Either that, or they looked remarkably similar.
Ok I,ll say it again for those who dont listen .
The first Holden V8 around 1969 designed and mass produced in Melbourne , buy a Melbournian .
253 or 308 . Take your pick .
i recall my slant 225 leaked like a bucket, my ecotech 3.6 was graet till the heater core leaked , or the computer got wet .
However I do want a set of door handles like the ones on this car cos my ladcruiser ones are crap
its been bashed ,smashed ,rolled,burnt,left for 5 years in the sun then flooded, and yet the handles still shine