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EPISODE · Jan 26, 2020 · 28 MIN

55: Australia Drag Day

from All Torque Car Podcast · host All Torque Podcast Pty Ltd

Halil's brother, Mem, joins the Australian Day celebrations.  The boys discuss the do's and don'ts of driving a convertible in summer.  It finally rained after a long drought and we look at driving techniques in the wet.  Peter travelled to Queensland and drove a ZB Commodore.  Mem and Peter compare driving high powered Commodores that belong to their brothers: W427 v GTS-R.  And finally Halil reveals the results of his drag race against a Lancer Ralliart.  Follow us on Instagram and Facebook and send us your questions to [email protected] 

Halil's brother, Mem, joins the Australian Day celebrations.  The boys discuss the do's and don'ts of driving a convertible in summer.  It finally rained after a long drought and we look at driving techniques in the wet.  Peter travelled to Queensland and drove a ZB Commodore.  Mem and Peter compare driving high powered Commodores that belong to their brothers: W427 v GTS-R.  And finally Halil reveals the results of his drag race against a Lancer Ralliart.  Follow us on Instagram and Facebook and send us your questions to [email protected]

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I'm Chris was happy to marry that to the EU, cheers. Happy gender reveal to you all day. Good morning, good afternoon, good evening. Welcome to the All Talk Car Podcast.

Happy Australia Day, we just, cheers. No, I guess not. Is it, I guess not. It's not, I would be tired.

There you go, it's a straight day, the whole weekend for me anyway. You heard the voice of the real, welcome, how? Welcome, welcome. Bull boa.

We'll have a couple of vinacas, are they, say? Yes. Back from his holiday. We also got men on again, then was on the last off episode.

There you go, buddy. Fantastic. We're good mate, we're good. The people that listen can't, probably say they're good too, but you can't hear it anyway.

Obviously. Look what boy is. Is that me? It's hot.

It's muggy. It's hot. It was actually hot at the, down at the harbour today with the kids. It was hot there.

It was hot. Normally when you need the water, at least there's a couple of degrees of difference. It was just muggy. Well, that's not a slip like an athlete, no shirt on.

No, no, no, no. No, no, no. That was grueling as it could be. It wasn't misty, but, yeah, it was bloody hot.

Well, you do. I still took the roof down. I saw Pete. I saw Pete.

I said to my wife. I had the roof up during the day. The roof up during the day was hot. I said, you know, I was doing a dance at Bridge.

And I go, that's Pete. She goes, what are you talking about? I got Pete in that Porsche. My wife does not, so she ate a 9-6-8 cab with a Porsche.

She's looking for a Porsche. She's like, 11. Or maybe I get a woman. I get a woman.

I get the blue one. I got, that's Pete. I got, I don't know, he's the place they put on it, but I'm pretty sure that's Pete. She goes, how do you fit in there?

I fit in there. I don't like you now, is it? Yeah, I feel like you're there. You wanted to take it like that guy from the way I ate.

That was fantastic. That was very warm. The roof up in the cabin in the city. Six were convertible drivers and owners.

Like, the first time I had a convertible was on a honeymoon. It went to the States in 2001. And hi, I must say convertible. And for three weeks, put 5,000 miles on this drive to Helen back.

And the first second day, we're going to drive me to the desert leaving California, heading towards Texas. And put the roof down. And we're cooking. I was like 40 degrees, just cooking away.

And we're looking at every other convertible. And I had their roof up. We thought, what are we doing? Pulled over.

Put the roof up to the day. Had the air con. You've got to have the air con at night. When the sun goes down, you pull the roof back.

It's the best car on a hot summer's night. They're the best cars on a lot of criminals. Oh, they're talking about the roof up to the day. You're a son of a bitch.

You're a son of a bitch. No, son of a bitch. No, son of a bitch. This is like a 20-year-old.

But, sorry the top wheel. We had some rain. We haven't had rain for a couple of months. So, as you're not listening to Australia, we go through a big drought.

Bushfires. Rain. Aye, aye, aye, aye. I felt like a 7-year-old on a piece when I had the ex-f.

And I just wanted to oversteal everyone. You know what I'm talking about? You know what I'm talking about? It doesn't rain for a while.

It turns the marbles down. Everyone gets out of drive. Yeah. Right?

All of a sudden, everyone is like, oh fuck, it's raining. What do I do now? Well, you just drive and you don't, you know. Well, obviously like I'm trying to...

Well, it's not hard. It's just, you know, drive to the conditions. You know, you've got people doing like 90 Ks in your only taking lane on the motorway and, you know, there's semi-trailers passing them in the slow lane. But, soon as they're heading on the road, they fly in the way.

They fly. They're all faster in the road, especially with all the water spraying. Yeah, so they'll be the most dangerous type of drive on the road when it rains. Someone has borrowed someone else's car.

Yeah. What do you reckon, man? I'll think about it in a general. Anyone wants to sell their car today from a friendly insurance company?

Lend it to my brother. Yes, I mean, did you drive in the rain the other day, man? Yeah. What were you driving, buddy?

The patrol. The patrol. Yeah. But that's easy to control.

Okay. In the back we go through lanes over the throttle. The bigger patrol, you, it's a lot of the training on the train in the back. Can you get that to...

The enemy's 30 French toys. The best hand is the best. I'd say I remember we had the XF gear when I was at peak later and made that thing. There's no traction control in 1989.

That thing spun like a DJ at a disco tech. I don't know. It was spinning around. Everyone wants to, we bought some tires, but I'll be smashed to the back.

And going right in this case was the bad tire and that thing used to, you used to oversteer and learn drift before drifting was invented in Sydney. I actually ripped a guard in the door off. I was on my own, but I rode the score. We might have a dad not in the...

Yeah, I could do that. Yeah. So I'm going to go on, we'll do the things we could race in at the top. On the actual level.

On the actual level. Or you driving? Was an RT40 shovel nose front, third of grown up. Corona.

Commship also. Was that with the Spitfire engine, the Holden 1.9.0. There was a stage where the Coronavirus put the Corona, which I know. Yeah.

That's one. That's one. This is one of my... Oh, no!

Shovel nose! Six feet. Oh, yeah, yeah. Yeah.

With a swear back. Yes. That was real good, right? Yeah.

But the four-speed con was on the right. The old four. Cow dripped. Cow dripped.

No, no, no. You can't do this fine. You can't do this fine. You can't.

Right? So the car needed... He'd been working on it. He'd been doing a good job, right?

So it needed extractors made up and an exhaust system. It was a complicated drive-down there, as long as you sat foot up. We're talking from a place where you don't understand when you're sitting. It's a scooter.

It was a size where you're eating, right? But they got pulled up by the cops because it was driving a car from your fair road. That's not a golf cart! It's a size-o-one, but it's not.

You had to do this on your face. You had one glove in the back. But where's the plane going off, right? Speaking of hot, I was in Queensland last week for work.

Hide a hot red, blood red, go red, faster, Commodore ZB. And you know what? I take offense to the using of the word Commodore. Oh, look.

You know what? It was a Commodore because a lot of the bits inside was from the media. I thought it was a European car. Straight away, put on the left, click on the other wipers.

The left stalk is going everywhere. So I look at the stalks and Australia is the VF. It's the same balance to change the screen or the messages. The same fog from 10 years ago from the VE days.

I thought, you're kidding me. This is why the cars are flawed and Holden has just gone down the good line. The car was a... How do you have a new car where things like the multimedia, the stalks are off the old car?

And this is all new architecture. This is not an update. Yeah, no, it was a brand new car and a brand new chassis. But give credit with credit stew, it was a two-liter RS.

And the thing, it wasn't straining or whining like a VF. I used to hide once upon a time. That was much more refined. The chassis was amazing.

They went wrong where they should have just said, when I'll build in Commodore Z anymore, this is the new car. And called it the insignia, we're going to call it and hit the marketing with it. I didn't know the funky interior at night had little strips of light. I was in charge of the reflection, but I thought I was in a pretend e-class.

It was a great car. No, you know, you could pick them up. There's some good deal. Low 20s for like a used one government user.

There's Kali V's for 30-30s. We're 70, wide-tier, 5-30s. They're giving it away. And look, they're a great.

I enjoyed it. And I haven't driven the V. The Kali was the six. I've done an apparent.

It's not much difference between the two-liter and the six. But the two-liter was a firecracker in the car. I enjoyed it. And I trickled on my mates up in Brisbane.

Shout out the horse. I said it was a bright red. It looked like a car, the fire commission, I would drive. And I picked it up too.

Because I was expecting the company a little sizzic, a lot of the houses as it is. I said, no, they've got a great deal. It's called government rentals. It's like Airbnb, but we've got the cars.

Because what do you mean? Because it's highly timed now. And the fleet cars are not being used. You can go to the government rental website and hire a car.

And they gave me the fibergate car. And once I said that, he just like that. But I had him. That was Brisbane.

I drove on the freeway. The finial country cars on it. Look at that. You could probably get the ambulance if they're not using it.

But they got these mobile queens and their roadside mobile cameras. It's just like a big box, yellow box with like a head of ET. I think I've got done a lot. You're over estimating it.

I'm just having a quick look on the none. You can get a demo ZB Calate, two liter diesel for 29,400. That's a lot of car. I'm telling you now.

That is a full-size V-wheel car. That is a lot of car. You know what? I only hold a good fuck inside like this.

That is a lot of car. That's almost like a bearable to say the arts. I mean the arts are two liter. They don't go far into it.

But they're pushing those for 60 odd. Like you're buying a European car at half price. And they're fully loaded. I thought I had hit up this play.

I could see the reflection of the screen. It ain't hit up this play. I had a red light splash and it reflects off the windscreen. So they're going to hit up this way.

It just tells you you're being a digger. They're going to hit someone. Speaking of driving other people's cars, I drove... I drove...

No, no. I did like getting behind fancy conga. I mean, I drove... I had the nice exact...

I had the nice exact... I heard earlier that we gave it a good oil change and put some new brakes on it. And my brother said, can you go to Repco or... He had to just fleet the cars at the workshop.

He goes, take the W427. Mate, that is a beast of the car. It's an animal. You can drive it like Miss Daisy.

But if you hammer that car, you're doing ridiculous speeds in any... Peter gear and you'll lose your licence. That thing is a machine. And after 10 years, it still drives solid as.

It's a beautiful car. Have you driven any fancy conga? Well, I'm the first one I drove here to drink it. I said I've got the data logger on it.

I've got this one. I've got that one. Told him, don't speed. Don't speed.

Okay. I'm not sending you a video that you should have been impressed with. Was it a good video? No, I wasn't impressed.

Was a video like a GoPro? Was a video like you... Well, I was actually testing cities that level. Hey, what's it?

No. You managed to do what? Scared it, Avian Flick turns? It was almost two digits, starting for two in front of whatever he thought he would have been said.

I think I'll do you made a help. Yeah. And how many gs did you get? I can't try to laugh.

Is NASA gonna sign you with that number of gs on there? Yeah, no, you've got those meters and you've gotta be careful. I'd like to know. And I suppose some of our listeners are dying to know.

On the last episode, you left us with... And to be honest with you guys, listeners, I don't know the result. I've... I've ordered it like...

I've ordered it because I want to find out what I'm excited. So those are where listening to the last episode. Just stop downloading and then come back to us. But how got himself into a drag race?

VK versus EvoLite. EvoLite! EvoLite! EvoLite!

EvoLite! EvoLite! It went like this. So, where's Nainite?

Tell us. Nainite. The VK turned up. Rookie?

Never been on a trip. Never been on a trip. Turn up on a street tyres. Right?

On a day boot. Full tank. Full tank. We'll take a few.

Do you want to avoid any fuel issues? Right, you have a few. Gas is it? Gas is like a cubby on it.

Turned up. Street tyres. Drive to the track. So, you know what?

You're racing it. Are you for real now? Yeah, sorry for being. It's a different one.

Unsprun. Wait, make some difference. Did you get out of the machine? No, no, no.

I waited with Max. Obviously. Me and I like science. I'm a bit of a science.

So, I like to see the horsepower thing that the car has. And the Marlon Lite runs. At the end. And the weight is a formula.

So, you say the car. So, this is full-way running. A certain Marlon Lite. The numbers should all out.

It's like a thousand. So, how much was your weight? Four-In-In-70. Then EvoLite turned up.

You didn't weigh the car. Why not? I see that happening. Don't know.

If there's a weight bridge there. Yeah, yeah. It's a comfort. Did you lose weight from?

No, no, no. Because you have to first time say it. It's just first time. It's a genius.

Turned up. Full weight. Throw the car. Manual.

V8. Re-wheel drive. Okay. No.

No. No. No. No.

Did you trash talk before? No. No. No.

No. I see. I've got it off the line. Got it to mid track.

Just got me at the finish line. If I like, got you. Yeah. More power.

The turbo. Round one. Round one. Right.

So, then we. We actually race it. Okay. So, then we race a few other people because we just couldn't get back in the same spots again.

We have a few runs with other people. We should. I bet I won't. I won't.

I won't. I won't. We should shut up that. We should shut up that.

I'm going to come on the phone. I said, listen. I should come along. He's at the car.

He's at the end. It's down the way. So, when I was with someone else's car, because you don't give a fire. Oh yeah, that too.

Let's talk about that. Let's talk about that. Hey, does it out of the jiddies? Sorry.

Not yet. Not yet. We had a grid mine out. First run, we just had a monitor mission.

The mechanical fuel pump wasn't coding. And the car started at, pretty much, just before mid track. So, it was actually fitting to third. I lost my stomach.

So, what time was it? Sorry, back around. What time did you get? Fastest form of the night?

13 9. Oh, very quick. Oh. I haven't got him.

It's a tour of half-hour. Feel it. You should mention it. No.

Ah, I forgot that he was going to kill me. Anyway, moving on. So you lost your own mind by what's got. By now.

His time was faster, just. But your speed was quicker. No, no, no. There was like a 10th in it, right?

It was like nearly a day to the line. But the starter, the cast stuttering, I could see me in my mirror as a cast, the star is a big star again. And he touched me and he might get another colleague. So second race, something happened.

Can you fix it while you're there? Yes, no. No, I'm not going to put him in a two-hundred-one. Okay, so you, right back to third round.

Third round. Third round. Third round. Third round.

So you've realized. He's still going on about that. I don't care. I don't care.

I turned it up. Twice. I've still got three figures. I turned it up with a thirty-five-year-old, Carby.

Standard. We can see him. Single cam. Mechanical pub.

Re-wheel drive. Re-wheel drive. Strip bridge stones. Right, the second best driver in the family.

Yes. Yes. Yes. So, and then, you go like, start complaining about his problems with his.

Because he's got the, what is it? The DCT. You have the dump cut transmission. Right?

You might be living for me. Right, did you prove? No, no. Because they're dual-clusters.

So you've got a big course-bound cart. Once you're, it's like a normal men's or people's. Once you're fucked, your car's just, it's, they sleep. Like, I'm still out.

Under load and talk, they'll start sleeping. And after a while, it goes in the shutdown mode. I'm going to go. I'm going to go.

I'll tell you. On the third run, his car's just been really starting to hurt him. So I don't. Right?

So it doesn't matter. Doesn't matter. Two more. I'll take it anywhere.

You're still going to go. I'm going to go. I'm going to go. I'm going to go.

I'm going to go. I'm going to go. I'm going to go. I'm going to go.

I'm going to go. I'm going to go. That car's been sitting in my garage for 10 years. It gets the occasional drive on the weekend.

It doesn't really get the cobwebs. Yeah. It just deletes them. Yes.

Yes. But very impressed. So next week, we're driving the Kennedy's one. So next week, we're back.

We're going back. We're going back in something else. We're going to take the Audi. Oh, no.

We're taking the A7. Oh, that'll be a laugh. Why? I don't know because it's just a six-time.

So the A7, two-ton. Don't have to get fired. Two-ton. All will drive.

Twin-turbide V6 diesel. With a hot, with a light out exhaust. Two-one to thirty-four kilowatts. 650 Newton meters.

Eight-speed torque converter. It's a nut. It's a nut. It has launch mode.

So I have that. I drive the VK. Next week. So I'm going to make a call.

With a launch, drink of the launch mode is going to work. Yes, I'll use it on the front. No, I'll use it on the front. No, I don't.

I don't know if I had a gov, GDI Mark 5. And I was told before YouTube and that came out, you've got to put the car in sport mode. That's right. In sport, gearbox.

Decide mode will be a single-way. And then put your left foot on the brake. Keep the accelerator twice. Yeah.

And then you're in space. Yeah, sorry. Then it just takes itself. No, it's not a traction.

But that's a front. I know that. It wasn't worth doing that. I've tried on the street with the Audi.

It just gets up and down. It's not the same. More sequence. Yeah.

It's very similar. So I reckon the car will go through the link five. The Audi. Yeah.

Because it's got a bulk shit load of torque. And it's got eight gears. It's not like a five-speed order world. It'll just keep in the power phase.

It's just going to keep going bang bang bang bang bang. Get into top gear and just go across the line. Can you leave the baby seats in there? I know we don't need the baby seats in there.

As it's turned out, toys and all. I don't know if you're screwing the toys up. You've got to take a rabbit out. Can you have a laptop?

It's the same way. You can do that for the taillights. So next week we're back to the tracks and we're going to take the audio. You know I'm still going to get the drop of the jiggy stuff.

After that one. After that one. I didn't even, I was going to wear out of hand to use all the features of the vehicle. Oh yeah, it's a funny load.

It's almost like a car like a sport. I've driven a 4.5. Yeah? Yeah.

And the R6. Yeah. And I'll wait your water which means you drive a bit of the... Yeah.

It was a 4.5. That's a bit true. That will drive me to Cabritti when I saw it. You did.

It was a 4.5. Red? Yeah. Now I should lose a custom orange.

What? Yeah. What? I think it's been like 30 grand.

Respect the custom factory. Wow. And you pay for the extra metallic option? Does it really do the extra metallic?

Nice car? Magic's right. Yeah. Could you drive it like an old lady and then give it?

I'll say. I'll have some footage of it. I don't know if you can download that legally. That's why for the snatch of the vehicle.

It is a 4.5. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

Yeah. So the... The computer set average speed 58 to the 40 zone. Oh, not even that.

No, that's good driving on the people's car. They actually enjoy the adding more, I think. The other thing I'll notice when the best handling car is a rental car. Those cars take corners quicker than any normal car.

No fee. No fee. I'll go to you turns everywhere. I'll drive it.

I wasn't sure, but I thought I'd be... Thank you. They are. Red car is a...

Great cars. Definitely that's wrong. It's the extra $20 a day for zero x-zero worries. Is it the model that my brother uses?

Pay the money. Pay the money. Pay the money. Pay the money.

And then that way you have to worry about it. So there you go. I'll be back at Eastern Creek with the GTSR on the 28th and 29th for the Kenda 660 shootout. What's the Kenda 660?

The Kenda 660 is for radial tie cars. Okay. Who's Kenda? Kenda M8s.

Kenda Tites. Kenda Tites. Yeah. Okay.

It's basically an eighth mile. So it's half track race. Right. Okay.

So you're in brackets as well. So you go to the door and you're tying in. There's all different categories. So it's not as far as it's average.

Well, get to your time. Yeah. Fastest but you've got to get off the line. Yeah.

So you've got to get to your time mistakes. You've got to get to your time. Instead of tires in radial time. Well, they're drag radials.

Okay. They're legal, they're road tires but they're radial. They're still radial. Okay.

So they're drag race tires. But we could find the genius. I'll be in the shot this week. What do you want?

I've got to get to your time. I've got to get to your time. Oh, no. You've got to get to your time.

The trailer looks like you used to. We're going to go back on the dyno this week. Yeah. Just I've got a few bugs from last time.

From the Juller. No. No. No.

It's just not making power top. Yeah. So I've got to get to the finish line. So the final and hour across the finish line was no different to before we put some more power in it.

So we're just going to play with that a bit. Get it out there. See how we go? How was it?

How was it? Did you drive anything there? No. See how you got to drive?

No. No. I see you're up. I've got a few.

Yeah. Did you take your hard caps? No. We're all going along.

We're probably driving the walking. It's about eight. You've got to go. You've got to go.

Oh. No. No. No.

No. No. No. No.

No. No. No. No.

No. No. No. No.

No. No. It's good. That's good.

That's all right. I'm not going to, you know what I mean, by the middle goes Robbie. You think this year we started with a bang with Museoq with his eight meeting fans and we've got some beats to get us coming up in the next couple weeks. Well, I put the fillers out and there's a certain couple that are going to be looking for all the media attention they can get.

Actually, don't even know about this. OK. And we've also got our swells. I'd DM Sussex Royal to see.

Oh. If they'll come on the clock. Is that your uncoupled travelling the world to see whether they're finding themselves? Yeah.

They got to find themselves fucking homeless. I'm sure they got enough to get a holiday in for a couple of weeks. I'm sure that's fine. Yeah, that's fine.

It's somewhat limited to hand. Yeah, no, right. So you've got family, new born. Yeah.

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