Mini documentary aobut Larry Perkins, Good footage of a Perkins 304 intake manifold As of 2022 Larry has made a video about the manifold here • Episode 27: Larry Perk...
What a legend engineer, driver and independent thinker. I remember one year at Bathurst he stuck with the 5/6 nut wheels when everyone else had moved to single nut. Making his own brake calipers so he didn't have to do a pad change. I loved it every time his own cars beat the factory oppositiin.
@7071t6
4 жыл бұрын
Thank you Larry for buying locally, like all the aerospace grade alloys you brought directly from me and i am sure those alloys and various specialised welding wire helped lightened the cars and made them stronger as well, also roaring 40's the company that build the GT40's here in australia, ended up buying 0.20 thou aircraft grade aluminum sheets to use,which made the GT40 car approx 40KG lighter just from changing from commercial grade aluminum, which was thinker to get the same strength and a lot heavier as ell, the first day i met the owner, he said are you trying to tell me how to build GT40's i said nope,but here's a complete list of the various Aluminum sheets which all the aircraft manufacturers use on current airlines in australia which we supply and the specs are in all the SAE alloy grades, just check them out at your lesueur and give me a call if you have any interest ,sure enough the next day he brought 20 sheets of 2024-T6 and some 6061-T6 sheets, which i delivered personally, they are that strong yet pliable that all the sheets were rolled up and i put them in the back seat and boot of my car. :) Total value on first order was around 5K and still going to this day and the sister company in the USA made custom chrome moly sections for the racing car industry so that they would not need to cut angels themselves they were already made at the right sizes and angels as well. :) also sold products to boeing in port melbourne,. Hawker De Havilland as well and qantas, Ansett airlines wanted us to supply all the alloy requirements for that year which was wroth over $500,000 dollars and saved ansett airlines over $250,000 dollars just for buying locally, as they were importing the items with each flight from the USA and elsewhere, so when you had the time and fuel factors for each flight the product cost them almost double,compared to buying locally. :)
@Laxpowertoo
15 жыл бұрын
I worked with him in the UK at Ralts. What I remember most is he went to the pub a lot!
@mickeynismocat
15 жыл бұрын
Larry is a great Australian guy/Racing Driver/Racing Mechanic! Not many people know he drove in F1, I have a 1967 F1 year book where he is driving a few formula 1 racing in back then what a Legend!
@jasonkhoury4328
Жыл бұрын
.. and then he went on to win Bathurst that very year ('93) & again in '95 from dead last & a lap down caused by contact with Lownes at the start .. & again in '97 - all while still a privateer!!
@vince065us
15 жыл бұрын
He reminds me of Sir Jack Brabham.A self-taught engineer.
@7071t6
4 жыл бұрын
Yep that intake you could buy for around 15 to 20 k at that time, now days the same sort of set up is around 10 k, but still, all those engines were all naturally aspirated, so good for over 550HP + easy. :)
@cameronsmith8730
2 жыл бұрын
A magician
@19escort73
16 жыл бұрын
What a legend.
@brianfarmiloe6791
2 жыл бұрын
Had been there and walked around the place it would be good to restore the house I spent 1hour there
@darrenparkinson4576
2 жыл бұрын
Not only did he win Bathurst with his own team,he done it from last on the grid!!!
@markharris4421
2 жыл бұрын
No he didn't. Perkins started from 3rd.
@borismcfinnigan3430
6 ай бұрын
@@markharris4421He is tqlking about the 1995 first lap tangle with Mark Skaife where he went to dead last and a lap down to then come through and win.
@aussi3212
7 жыл бұрын
the slide valve intake he runs is hard to work out whats going on, I think the trumpets are in a plenum and the plenum has the throttle body on it, instead of the fords and chevs that have a butterfly valve per trumpet
@formulafish1536
6 жыл бұрын
aussi3212 nothing was an issue for Larry Perkins. He could find an issue with something European and fix it such was his immense skill
@greenfoam
2 жыл бұрын
You guys had to wait a while (as did I) But Larry has just explained the whole thing kzitem.info/news/bejne/2GuL4GetgJ5ylH4
@greenfoam
2 жыл бұрын
@@formulafish1536 Larry has just posted a video about it
@MichaelIanHenry
13 жыл бұрын
Can I have the old oval window beetle @ 2:24?...lola
@mikelowrey3101
9 жыл бұрын
Top story. Larry did not start f1 till '74' (fuckwits). And truth be told he used the holden engine till mid '90's and also used the same conrods as the standard vn v8 road car not the VN group A as alot of people bullshit about. In his opinion they were a better option.
@chopperking1122
9 жыл бұрын
dunno how he was driving F1 in 1967 , he didnt go to europe till 1973 ,
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