Holden unveils VE Supercar - Page 3

Pro Racer · 25 Oct 2006, 12:47 (Ref:1748940)

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Originally Posted by PVDA

Some official images of said VE for you to admire or complain about

Holden have built a beutiful race car there,hopefully it will give the BF's a good old flogging.

Chatters · 25 Oct 2006, 13:08 (Ref:1748963)

Edit on pwr's behalf: It WILL give the BF a good flogging.

FPV GTHO · 25 Oct 2006, 13:17 (Ref:1748974)

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Originally Posted by Chatters

Edit on pwr's behalf: It WILL give the BF a good flogging.

If you say so.

You have to believe theres going to be teething problems of some sort next year. Whether only one or two cars experience them or a fair few do, who knows, but you cant expect all the VE's next year to hit the ground running and instantly be on the pace.

pete55 · 25 Oct 2006, 13:21 (Ref:1748983)

That rear wing looks a fair way back. I though they were to be within the confines of the bodywork.

racer69 · 25 Oct 2006, 14:25 (Ref:1749044)

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Originally Posted by Chatters

Edit on pwr's behalf: It WILL give the BF a good flogging.

It is not possible for one make to 'flog' another make in this series.

Parity adjustments are made long before any domination takes place these days.

andy_b · 25 Oct 2006, 18:12 (Ref:1749226)

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PVDA · 26 Oct 2006, 03:23 (Ref:1749552)

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Originally Posted by evshez28

Any one got a screensaver. What a race car, the best i have seen.

No but you can find some good Holden pics here

you've got to go in about 7 pages to find the pics I posted here and about 20 pages in for a few Brock XU-1 & Commodore pics.

Pro Racer · 26 Oct 2006, 05:08 (Ref:1749589)

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Originally Posted by racer69

It is not possible for one make to 'flog' another make in this series.

Parity adjustments are made long before any domination takes place these days.

to put my enthusiastic post into pariety wording hopefully it gets its nose home slightly infront of the BF.

peckstar · 26 Oct 2006, 08:09 (Ref:1749690)

when was the last time we had a parity adjustment.

We havent had one in four years(project blueprint with two new cars) and before that they allowed one car to have an advantahe over the other for 5 years

Pro Racer · 27 Oct 2006, 02:57 (Ref:1750669)

is it only Skaife and Todd to drive it so far,seen on sports tonight at the launch they had several holden drivers:Skaife,Todd,Rick,Tander,Murph and i think there was a couple more but the pictures were quick so didn't get a good look.

will the rest of the said drivers get a drive of this car or will they have to wait until their respective teams get theirs built.

Conrod Kieron · 27 Oct 2006, 05:09 (Ref:1750697)

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Originally Posted by peckstar

when was the last time we had a parity adjustment.

We havent had one in four years(project blueprint with two new cars) and before that they allowed one car to have an advantahe over the other for 5 years

The last parity adjustment was (belatedly) to the AU in 2003.

From the front, you could put a Ford oval on the VE grille, apint it in Cat colours and it would be hard t tell the difference between it and a BA

Chatters · 27 Oct 2006, 05:35 (Ref:1750705)

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Originally Posted by Conrod Kieron

From the front, you could put a Ford oval on the VE grille, apint it in Cat colours and it would be hard t tell the difference between it and a BA

That's exactly what I thought when I saw one in the street... Only once I'd seen the back did I go "Oh, it's a Commodore..."

RotorFan · 27 Oct 2006, 06:49 (Ref:1750729)

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Originally Posted by peckstar

We havent had one in four years(project blueprint with two new cars) and before that they allowed one car to have an advantahe over the other for 5 years

Not to put your precise knowledge into question (since someone else said a parity adjustment was done in 2003 for the AU), but I'm very sure they made a parity adjustment to the AU in the VT era, giving the AU the front splitter of the VT and shortening the undertray.

Chatters · 27 Oct 2006, 08:18 (Ref:1750806)

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Originally Posted by RotorFan

Not to put your precise knowledge into question (since someone else said a parity adjustment was done in 2003 for the AU), but I'm very sure they made a parity adjustment to the AU in the VT era, giving the AU the front splitter of the VT and shortening the undertray.

They definately did give the AU a new VT/VX style undertray, I've got posters and photos of them.

peckstar · 27 Oct 2006, 08:45 (Ref:1750831)

they did do a parity adjust to the AU ,wont argue there, but it didnt give us parity did it. It just brought them closer It wasn't to 2003 that a parity adjustment occurred to the AU, but by then the main ford teams were running BA's and project Blueprint had occurred, so that was great for the development series, but really of minimal use to the main game

Conrod Kieron · 27 Oct 2006, 14:41 (Ref:1751162)

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Originally Posted by RotorFan

Not to put your precise knowledge into question (since someone else said a parity adjustment was done in 2003 for the AU), but I'm very sure they made a parity adjustment to the AU in the VT era, giving the AU the front splitter of the VT and shortening the undertray.

The AU's original 'cheesecutter' splitter which proved quite fragile was indeed replaced with a VT style one, not very scientific though and the Ford teams commented that it was less effective than the original, but was far stronger.
Lengthening of the undertray is better, I don't recall the AU undertray being shortened.

FPV GTHO · 28 Oct 2006, 06:11 (Ref:1751709)

The general point seems to be though since 2003 there hasnt been any issues, hence PB must be a success.

kmsport · 28 Oct 2006, 06:29 (Ref:1751710)

Do you reckon they might engage Oscar to help with the Woomera testing?

Matt · 28 Oct 2006, 16:22 (Ref:1752015)

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Originally Posted by Conrod Kieron

The AU's original 'cheesecutter' splitter which proved quite fragile was indeed replaced with a VT style one, not very scientific though and the Ford teams commented that it was less effective than the original, but was far stronger.
Lengthening of the undertray is better, I don't recall the AU undertray being shortened.

Was this the 'cheescutter splitter?' If so, why was it called that?

Chatters · 28 Oct 2006, 23:15 (Ref:1752292)

Yep, that is the cheescutter splitter, named because of the small piece of in the center of the splitter. IIRC.

Pro Racer · 29 Oct 2006, 03:02 (Ref:1752348)

yep the little piece inthe middle of the splitter cheese cutter what a good name for that.

Pro Racer · 29 Oct 2006, 08:05 (Ref:1752441)

mmmmmmm cheese

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pete55 · 29 Oct 2006, 08:23 (Ref:1752453)

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Originally Posted by pwr fan

mmmmmmm cheese

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mmmmmmmm Rat.

Chatters · 29 Oct 2006, 08:45 (Ref:1752468)

Fellas, on topic, please.

Pro Racer · 29 Oct 2006, 12:04 (Ref:1752622)

mmmmmm Rat Trap !!! SNAP !!!

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on topic how much of aneffect did that 'cheese cutter' make?

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