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The Mad Barra Ford Territory burnout car and other insane Barra turbos & sick rides

10/10/2026

Some hidden content of the new billet diff centre we are running 🫪

10/10/2026

FORD TERRITORY ZF8HP BARRA, AutoFest practice session 😮‍💨 first time out with the revised set up. Pad was wet and dry which made it difficult to work out sweet spot, at the end killed the axle

08/10/2026

The goat 🐐

08/10/2026

10 years ago the last ford was manufactured in Australia 🇦🇺 long live on the mighty ford falcon and territory’s 🔥🔥

05/10/2026

Tip in Tuesday 😮‍💨 ft Barra territory 8 speed 🔥

05/10/2026

Definitely late for school with all that low fog out 😮‍💨

Curtis your a legend yet again 💪🤟

05/10/2026

TERI ON TOUR 🔥

may have been quite this year but she’s gonna make some noise in the last part 💪

05/10/2026

Back on the dyno on Saturday for the e85 tune down on hub dyno 🔥 finished up with a solid 600kw. Ran out of map sensor unfortunately to see a big number. Huge thanks to John again for working his magic and will for the use of the dyno 💪

04/10/2026

Watch out for the spaghetti hands 😮‍💨🤣 top of 8th gear

04/10/2026

-Warning big read-
AutoFest 2026 📉

Event run down ⬇️⬇️

First time at this autofest. First outing for the car after having a full engine overhaul, and a new tune. With a few changes made to the car, I was expecting some minor technical issues but mechanically the motor went sweet all day. Unfortunately some other stuff went wrong.

Practice -

Lined up. Rain had come through so once we got to the pad it had wet and dry patches. Also first time driving the car since the motor issue at the start of the year, I was a bit rusty. Come off the line was getting a feel for the car with the power and what gear was the sweet spot and about 40 sec in it blew the drivers side axle so that was over. Drove it into the pits and got it jacked up, only to find it hadn’t blown a cv on the axle like it normally does, it had snapped the axle shaft in the diff. We spent a couple of hours trying of ways to get it removed and eventually got it out! Also smoked the side seal and the side bearing in the diff so we put it back together and sent it with just enough time for qualifying for the open class.

Qualifying -

Line up after sorting out the rear end and noticed in the line that the drive belt was about to go, unfortunately not having enough time to check everything with fixing the axle it was missed. So lined up for the skid and the battery voltage dropped down to 12 volts and did the tip in and seen on the dash it dropped to 11 volts and basically it was all over unfortunately!

Was not our day unfortunately but that’s how the cookie crumbles sometimes. Appreciate autofest for running this epic event and hopefully next year we can come out bigger and better!! 💪

Also massive congrats to the competition winners and top places epic job 🔥

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463 Broadland Rd
Taupo
3378

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