Swanny Jr's MB-1

[Swanny]

Thanks TC, I'm sure we can do the burst again... practice makes perfect!

And off topic, the Sierra is a year older than the ones that Dick raced. His cars are now scattered around Australia, and one in England I think. There's at least two in the Bowdens Auto museum on the Sunshine Coast.

Here's a full pic...

[TC1600]

At least you know you can sand it off if you muck it up lol

I'm a Holden guy, but I like the Sierras for their rarity if nothing else. Nice looking example!

[wokkaboy]

I've seen some pics of the Sierra Swanny, looks in good nick. I have fond memories of them driving around Bathurst and beating the V8's till they cooked the turbo's. Dick and JB always said they were a real handful to drive with the light switch power delivery, short wheelbase and fairly skinny tyres.
Even Brock drove a Sierra for a couple of years I think when he fell out with Holden

[Swanny]

I'm lucky that I found this one stashed in a shed for just over 10 years, and it's now only got just under 50k mileage. I've had to replace everything rubber though, as it dries out and perishes.
Met Dick himself in the early 90's, after some a'hole stole his go-cart racing engines!
I remember the 05 Sierra of Brocky's, too!

[wazkelly]

Been to Bowdens at Buderim about 18 months ago and they have some of Dick's cars there but also Tony Longhurst's LHD Sierra which they reckon was the quickest. Dan Bowden can talk all day about the cars and their unique history and the stories are fascinating. They reckon that nobody had the guts to tweak the boost on the Sierra as they were already too much of a handful. They have plenty of Porsche race cars there too as well as the usual suspects in GTHO's, Mustangs, a famous Yellow 70's Monaro, some BMW's, think I saw one or 2 Brock cars too but the real museum pieces are upstairs with the Gullwing Benz being the most valuable and exotic.

[Swanny]

Been to Bowdens at Buderim about 18 months ago and they have some of Dick's cars there but also Tony Longhurst's LHD Sierra which they reckon was the quickest. Dan Bowden can talk all day about the cars and their unique history and the stories are fascinating. They reckon that nobody had the guts to tweak the boost on the Sierra as they were already too much of a handful. They have plenty of Porsche race cars there too as well as the usual suspects in GTHO's, Mustangs, a famous Yellow 70's Monaro, some BMW's, think I saw one or 2 Brock cars too but the real museum pieces are upstairs with the Gullwing Benz being the most valuable and exotic.

I'm yet to get to Bowden's, I stalk them on FB, though, and they have some incredible cars. Dicky J is credited with creating the fastest Sierra's in racing, one of his modifications was to modify the headbolt length, so they also held the crankshaft main bearings, to keep the engine together.

The engine in mine is an American version, 2.3 Lima engine, as used in the Mustangs of the '80's. It's only a single cam, but I've upped the turbo size, and changed the computer to one I can modify the engine parameters. I just added electronic boost control a couple of weeks ago, but haven't had a chance to test it out and get it dialled in.

[wazkelly]

I'm yet to get to Bowden's, I stalk them on FB, though, and they have some incredible cars.

Here are some sierra shots taken on the day.

[Swanny]

Waz, I work in forensics. We were processing a meth lab, and with my daily uniform, I had to add a long sleeved overshirt ... just in case.

[wazkelly]

No naked flames then. Shame about the weather as that would have created your own private mobile sauna.

[Swanny]

Lucky one of the guys there had an MP3 player with a wide variety of music to take our minds off the discomfort. No smoking is a given!