Episode 54: Perkins Cars Onboard Footage from Taupo Historic GP New Zealand
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- Опубліковано 24 січ 2024
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Loved watching you & Richo driving H pattern Jack. Much more interesting than sequential shift, and paddle shift looks/sounds like gaming. Really appreciate you keeping these cars on track👍
Thanks 👍 Love the H pattern!!
Hey Jack; I’ve got every streaming subscription I could ever want, but your UA-cam content is just the best! 👍
Hahah Cheers!
How good is watching these cars on Australia Day ? Unreal Jack, just awesome, glad your not flogging its guts out, i wanna keep seeing these cars around forever. I just got emotional watching this 😢. Please Jack, if you find another of LPs old rockets, please save it. Appreciate all the beautiful work gone into one of these. Proud of ya son
Many thanks!! Aussie Aussie Aussie!!!
Awesome show today Jack, and sweet to see Larry having a ball, 😊
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Thanks 👍
How good to see those cars going around again. Thanks Jack that was awesome to watch
Glad you enjoyed it, Cheers!!
I would’ve love to see the older V8 Supercars on track. It’s always cool seeing drivers actually row gears. It makes it much more enjoyable to watch. Thanks Perkins for another great video
Many thanks, cheers!!
Wicked content as always Jack , I would have brought the old girl in when I saw the first drop of rain too , protect her at costs !
Haha cheers!!!
Great stuff Jack.
Off topic.. Where is the 1995 Tooheys 1000 #11 chassis?
That car, that race, that result, that story is the stuff of legend that will get LP a big bronze statue someday. 🏆
In the Bathurst museum, restored around 20 years ago
@@perkinsengineering Oh cool. Perfect. 🤗
Not yet mate, bronze statues don't normally get made until the one being immortalised has usually departed. LP is not a legend just yet. But a really fricking top bloke , love seeing Jack and LP still driving these restored cars. Great stuff
That overrun is nasty. Love it. Good work JP
Cheers!
By the way, your response to the muppets about TQ and 97 Gen3 "testing" was on point. Good job speaking out about stupidity.
It needed to be said! Cheers!
Thanks for all your hard work jack, and a big thank you to the organisers for giving you and the other boys an event to get those cars out on a NZ track
Much appreciated, Cheers!!
Awesome thanks for taking the time to edit and share with us Jack👍.
You're welcome, cheers!
damn how good does that VP sound!
These cars must so much more fun to drive than the current things. They are certainly a lot more entertaining to watch and listen to.
Get some new wheels on that sucker! - would have been fun to have a proper go at chasing the Camaro and give Richo a run for his money! :)
Those action cams can be a PIA.
I've got the Sony Action cam. Great when it works, but always seems to have some excuse for not working. Sometimes I'll press record and then disappointed to find after that it didn't turn on or the SD card was full, battery flat grrrrr! I've had more hits than misses.
Please bring these cars out to a Qld event at least one year! Could be a exhibition event at the Heritage Touring Car round at Morgan Park
Cheers!!!!
Thanks, Jack ... loved every minute of it.
You're welcome! Cheers!!
Great to have a chat and see those beautiful cars on track. Love the content & hope to see you back at Taupo again soon! 🏁
I hope so too! Cheers!
Fantastic! Thank you & Happy new years!
Cheers!
Awesome jack would have been a blast glad you had fun
Absolutely, any day you drive a race car it's fun! Cheers
54 LETS GOOOO, Good luck on the '94 Car.
Cheers!!
All that time, money effort, has resulted in some iconic Aussie race cars, back on the track.
Cheers!!
Jack is Such a clever guy well spoken and interesting . Be a great guy to meet . Spent some time in Larrys company at Bathurst years ago ( he didn't know me and we didn't speak ). He is an amazing straight to the point guy .
Many thanks for the kind words, Cheers!
Awesome video again Jack !
Cheers!
Caught them all sleeping on the line! 93 weapon still as sharp as the new rigs!
"Perkins by a country mile"
Hey Jack. Love your work 👍
Cheers!!!
Great stuff ❤it
Cheers!!!
Good luck and stay safe in the 24 season
Cheers!!
I have asked before, and you said that the last to first 95 car is in a museum- just wondering if it ever comes out for a run every now and then? Or does it just lay there dormant? It would be cool to see it running!
I’m not sure to be honest, it’s not our car!
Do you, Larry, Richo get more of a buzz getting in the older cars compared to the newer generations?
Ohh it's a hard one to explain. You drive the current Generation cars and it's somewhat of a "job", because its professional racing, you drive them on the limit, lap after lap. Then the opportunity arises to drive an older car and you don't have the pressure to perform - if that makes sense. It's nice to see the differences in technology though and have the ability to sample them all.
What are the black and red paddles for on the steering wheel in the car that Richo was driving?
Were they exclusive to that generation of cars?
Or are they in use in the current Gen 3 cars as well.
They are just switches effectively, located on the paddles so the driver can use them easily. So in this car, one was the hand brake, wipers, headlight flash and sometimes fuel reserve or radio.
The term exclusive isn't quite right, there were no rules around switches and things like that so where teams wanted to put them they could.
Gen3 cars have control steering wheels and switch consoles.
cool
We think so too!
Hi Jack good stuff. Just a question about steering how you cross your hands over. I was told to feed the wheel.
It’s time to see a new driver coach Dirk, Jack is spot on
Yeah we generally don't have to worry about this in the current cars because they have power steering and smaller diameter steering wheels so the hand movements are less. This 1993 car has no power steering and a big diameter wheel, coupled with the fact this was a demonstration not a race i was doing what i could to make it easier haha
Jack, is there a video on the front suspension of the early cars, partially vl-vn on how you corrected the front geometry and roll centre issues when lowering it. How did you go about getting castor adjustment? These factory don't have it on the z bar. Would love to see how this was over come so I can put correct wheels on my vk brock, instead of the donk Simmons, I want the turbo fans wheels with slicks the exact same as the the touring cars of the day.
Yeah there's not massive adjustment in these with the McPherson struts, the roll centre adjustment comes from the Lower Control Arm, mostly inboard with 2 holes on the cross member and some out board spaces on the lower pin. Castor is adjusted from the castor arm running from the lower pin to the front cross member mount.
What the hell is a current 888 car doing there? Big fines or exclusion from the season.
Not at all, Tony Quinn bought/owns the car, it was running 2023 aero specs, non race shock absorbers and Pirelli tyres - all within the rules/blessing of supercars and a great result for NZ Motorsport fans. No team members or engineers from 888 were present, nor was there any data collection going on - which would be a waste of time based on irrelevant aero package, non control tyres (Pirelli GT tyres) and non race shockers.
Nice one cobber,its probably been covered before & i 've missed it,i wanna ask...are you running stock engine mounts or a more modern set,i only ask as a person mentioned they were running a modified set and that it gave more 'feedback' from the engine and im thinkn i couldnt imagine anything more annoying to be perfectly honest.,but hey, each to his own.
I believe they are stock, made by Mckay Rubber using the factory mounting from cross member to the engine block.
@@perkinsengineering ..thanks for that....🍻
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