Episode 36: We look at the Gear Levers across 3 generations of Perkins Touring Cars V8Supercars
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- Опубликовано: 14 окт 2024
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Good work Jack 🇦🇺🦘
Awesome video Jack. Bring back the H pattern. Thanks for sharing 👍🏻👍🏻🙃🙃
Cheers Mat!!
Thanks from England.
You're welcome!
I Really love your video's Jacko . Great job Mate
Cheers Ian!!
Really enjoy these comparisons between the 3 very different generations of cars. Whoever thought something as simple as the gear stick and gear knob would evolve this much. Great video Jack.
Exactly right! Cheers
Love your videos JP! Thankyou for you and the efforts of the team :)
Fantastic Jack ,all the stuff no one ever has seen as these beasts fly around the race tracks.👍
Yeah there's a lot to them!
Awesome work Jack - for the home enthusiast you provide great insight and explanation. Please keep providing this type of content - I really look forward to your videos.
Cheers David!!
Jack, you are just growing into your dad, but not quite as grumpy. Worked with uncle Ken Garvie in the mid 70s. Grew up at Loxton. Feel that we have some connections. Congrats on the channel.
Haha thanks Tim. RIP Uncle Ken. Cheers
@@perkinsengineering Jack, I was at the National Motor Museum at Birdwood today with my 7 year old grandson who is a car tragic. There is a display with a photo of your grandpa, and his brother after the Redex in the Volksy. Does grandpa look like Larry, or what? Now you know what you are going to grow up like.
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@@timdunn2387 yes I need to get to that museum to see Grandpas stuff on display
“NFG” love it!
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More great examples of Larry either finding a cheap solution that was also robust and reliable, or engineering a robust and reliable solution, this example of when a $1000 gear knob failed to deliver
That's it!
Love the VW Bump Rubber
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Very interesting,the about of engineering for shifting gears,cheers lads for years I watched v8 supercars didn't know how they flat shifted and the Ignis changing was class to watch
Flat shift engine cut to give Larry's commy a nice pop/explosion Upton shift.
Love the sound
Great sound!
Thanks, Jack, absolutely fascinating ... no need to comment further! 👍
Thanks Ken, something that seems so basic can often be quite complex or more to the story!
Hey Jack,
Another awesome video.
A very important subject many people seem to forget.
Myself I have been going through this very same subject on my 63 beetle. I ended up settling for Vintage Speed in Taiwan and had a custom shifter made that looks Vintage but has today's technology.
Anyhoo thankyou so much for sharing.
✌️ from Melbourne/Pakenham.
Cheers Kevin!!
Absolutely awesome content Jack ..... keep up the great work mate and thank you Automation Solutions
Cheers Jeff!!!
Great video Jack, it really showed the evolution of the gear knob from H pattern to sequential.
Cheers Vic
Thanks Jack. Is it possible to show what would be packed inside the transporters and the range of parts and tool you would take to a meet?
Thanks mate!
I’d like to do this on the supercars telecast, we don’t have a transporter or any of the parts as we aren’t an active race team!
Jack thanks for keeping us informed on all the different models with updates. Awersome content 👍💯🇦🇺
You’re welcome Grahame
Another great video jack
Glad you enjoyed it Josh!
Great work as always Jack. It would be good to see the evolution of the power steering system over the years if possible. Cheers
Yeah i'd like to do this too, just need a few more props to work with on the bench, all of the racks are basically in the cars!
Excellent, as always. Thanks Jack 👍🏻🇦🇺
Cheers David!!!
Thanks Jack. It's great to see Australian made engineering solutions like the last example you showed. It would be great to see more of that in a variety of industries here.
Glad you enjoyed it!
Great work again Jack. definetly a great behind the scenes for all the race fans out there
Thanks Jarrod!
Just an awesome job Jack Sir
Cheers!!!
Always an interesting watch, awesome 👍
Cheers!
Great show Jack, keep up the good work
Cheers John!
Love the videos mate.
Riser blocks give you less leverage but lessens the throw at the knob.
So slightly harder to pull but don't have to pull as far.
That's it!
Love your work, Jack 👍
Cheers!!!
another cracking video Jacko. I would love to see the changes in the exhaust's over the years!
Yeah once we get enough props together we will do one!
Thanks for the run through on the gearboxes. It would be great to see you with a full time drive again Jack, how about the Subway drive..
Cheers BapCorp! Nah my full-time driving career is behind me, time for younger blokes to have a crack!
This was great. I'm looking forward to seeing what the Sponsor does too, that stuff is interesting.
Yeah I can't wait for that one too!
I really enjoyed all the technical side of this with "simple" trial and error problem solving. One thing that I would like to know is the differences with reverse and reverse lockouts. Did you guys modify any of that as well?
Reverse lockouts is more a Gearbox mechanical side, as opposed to the specifics of the Gear Lever. We would always run the standard Holinger lock out, I don't believe we modified that. I'm hopeful of an episode purely on the Holinger H6S gearbox, but I don't have an exploded one on the bench, so that makes it difficult, but the back ground story of it all is pretty cool and one I'd like to tell!
@@perkinsengineering Thanks. That sounds very interesting with the HS6 box. I look forward to that episode if you get the opportunity to make it.
Just an idea, put the Automation Solutions name and logo in the bottom left corner
Check out Astill Design, Howard is supported by Lovells Automotive Systems, so that's how he has done it.
Cheers!
5hats all good Jack!
Cheers Darryll!!!
2004 Gold Coast Race 1. Steven Richards' lever broke. Was a tough race, lots of impacts with other cars and walls.
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@@perkinsengineering Looked tough on the cars, lots of brakes overheating and failing. Race 2 was less eventful. Love the videos by the way. Wouldn't think gear levers would be interesting.
Great stuff here Great content
Cheers Dan!
Hey team,
Not sure if you covered it before, though the 94 car looks to a falcon indicator stalk, as i have 2 Xb Falcons and a Commodore i spotted it straight away.
Question is it the ol Falcon stalk.
Cheers Paul
Yes it is, 1994 car was the first to have it and it remained it our cars until well into the VT’s
Jack, awesome videos.
A question that’s always puzzled me. In car vision back in the day showed the drivers put a quick stab at the clutch going up the gears, but with the shift cut, why was that necessary?
To further confuse me, there was in car vision of no clutch usage going straight through “the gate”, but a stab when going across the “dogleg” of the H. But not always
Hope you can clear that up for me
Cheers
Both examples sound like pre shift cut. Stab of the clutch takes the load off the driveline to enable a quicker shift. Some very early versions of shift cuts in the 90’s were also setup off the clutch stop.
3rd to 4th in a Holinger H6S is an easy flat shift without shift cut but going 4th to 5th is much more difficult, different forces as you switch selector forks
Thanks for the reply
The in car vision was mostly mid/late 90’s. Although one was when skaife drove a Perkins car at Winton, which was much later.
So Perkins had a switch on the clutch at times for shift cut?
I guess going across the gate needed more time and care to achieve successfully.
Perkins used Autronic ECU’s back then?
Thanks again 👍
@@russbutler2857 skaife was driver preference. We didn’t have it on the clutch stop. PE used Autronic until Motec was the control ECU in 2002 ish
@@perkinsengineering thanks for the replies, much appreciated 👍
The engineering 💦
There’s probably a reason why but wouldn’t a strain gauge on the linkage have worked better (similar to how a quick shifter works on a bike) than a shift cut switch in the gear knob
Yeah in the end the best set-up for the H pattern gearbox was a strain gauge in the gear lever.
Does the shop there have a cnc machine that can cut brackets and make v8 supercar rims? also do Dymag make old supercar rims anymore?
We don’t own a CNC any more no. Dymag don’t make Perkins Dymag 5 stud wheels anymore either.
@@perkinsengineering ah okay thank you :) I wish they did.
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