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Robbie Butler -'79 Drag News

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I've only just come across this article, and remember seeing Robbie racing at Surfers. I was there one time i'm sure he did a 12.8 down the strip. I had a ke16 panel van, with similar work done to the engine as Robbie's, and i could also squeeze 9,500 out of her. The head work took ages, used a band saw to cut up a couple of 4K heads to see how much I could hand grind out of the ports. I also ran an Ivan Tighe cam, and 2 x DCOE 45 webbers. One of the cams i tried was 58/85 , ran like shit under 3500, but came on song around 5000 through to 9500. i ran a standard corolla diff, 3.7 / 1, and that was half my problem with the revs i had available, crossing the line still in 3 rd gear. Had a bit of a problem burning out standard clutch plates as well. Robbie from memory ran an old Hi Ace / Stout diff at 5.8 / 1, allowed him to use all those revs. I soon learned not to trust the stock 4K fan blade, had one let go at 9500, sent 1 blade right through the bonnet. One day i'll find another KE 16 or KE 20 and have some fun.

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      Robbie is still very much alive and still into drag racing with Toyota running through his blood. I'm his son Garreth Butler. That is one definetly for the memory banks and has all these memories tuck

    • KE2571
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      Hey Guys   I remember all of this news from when i worked at Butlers Toyota, Toowoomba. Robbie was an owner along with his brother and a third person (Names i know). I heard that it ran 12.7 with f

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      Ive also been down this road before, and I'm rebuilding my old engine for my son now, imagine how it would have gone with a bit of nitrous up its bum!

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