Easy riders out of control

[Jackrat]

Not that I have that much experience with german cars but it appears to me as though in the german cars the power delivery was more logarithmic rather than the linear delivery that the American and Australian cars had.

btw I'm dying to hear - whats an R/T like to drive? Apart from the obvious wheelspins off the line? details please?

Iv'e had an RT,,bit of a long story but I loved it until I parked it in a ditch.
Iv'e had a few other Val's as well and they have all needed tuning to the suspension to make them handle.Compeared to anything around today they were very harsh to drive.The R/T had more power than the chasis could handle and were a ton of fun.

PS, actualy I had the chance to drive a nicely restored R/T when I was in OZ last.It was a pig.

[pete376403]

If this is R/T as in Charger, I drove my bosses E49 a few times. One nice thing about the Valiant front end is that is was very adjustable. Winding out the torsion bar stops a couple of turns lowered the front, and the caster and camber was fully adjustable as well via eccentrics on the top wishbone. I set this one to 1/2 degree neg camber and 1/4 degree positive caster, no toe in and it was running 225 BF Goodrich Radial T/A on the standard mags. They were big tyres for the era, standard Valiant was 185 or 195 x 14
The rear end was leaf spring and dampers, nothing flash there at all.
My recollection of this car was very very fast up to about 115 (MPH), lovely sounds, nothing at all startling in the way of brakes (power assist was an option) Handling was pretty good but it tramlined a bit over bumps.
He sold that car and got a 340 Dodge Challenger R/T 4 speed, I'd love to get one of those, too.

[riffer]

Thanks for that guys. I was interested as I had a VJ Regal with the 318, and always wanted the Charger but could never afford an R/T.

I got some anti-sway bars from the States for it (front and rear) - they were aftermarket ones designed for the Challenger R/T but worked nice on the val. Had Monroe GT gas shocks and the standard rims with Dunlop Aquajet 205's (budget restraints).

Tightened it right up, but having not much body roll but a lot of weight meant I eventually did the car equivalent of highsiding (fishtailed it trying to overtake an SLR5000 coming down the Kaitokes) and destroyed the bugger. Pushed the back end in to the back seat when we hit the bank going backwards at 120 ish but walked away.

Nice to hear the Charger R/T was a heavy pig of a car too. At least it was a manual. Mine was the auto with the column change.

Still a very cool car though... I'm envious.

[Hitcher]

*Sigh* Another car thread???

[Motu]

It was a thread about old farts thinking they were hot shit in the old days so should still be now - old farts reminise

[Jackrat]

My last Val was a CM Regal,It was an Auto six in what I always called Coconut Orange.
That was in Sydney and I liked to get out of it at the Tollgate Hotel in Paramatta wearing a Hawiain shirt an cowboy boots.
Had to be either a wog or a Kiwi aye.

[Jackrat]

Back to the subject at hand,,sort of.
I am currently doing licence training and accesment for my class 5.
That will be $800 thank you.
Sheees no wonder people hang on to them for ever.

[Big Dog]

Licenses are for individuals, not vehicles. If you mean it's hard to keep your experience up with biig rigs unless you work with one, well, yeah. But it someone hasn't worked with milk tankers in a decade, I don't want them suddenly cruising the roads in one.

My bad. I meant registered.

[SPman]

It was a thread about old farts thinking they were hot shit in the old days so should still be now - old farts reminise

Did any Chargers make it out with the 340? Or was it canned totally in the big "killer car" scare that killed the Phase 4?

[Jackrat]

Did any Chargers make it out with the 340? Or was it canned totally in the big "killer car" scare that killed the Phase 4?

There is one in the Adilade Vehicule musem but I don't think they got into full production.?????
For any one interested in such things the place is well worth a vist,they have prototypes of all sorts of neat things from the big three.
Oh yeah they have a couple of hundred bikes to.