Darren’s adventures with the HD began 18 years ago, when he chanced upon it for sale for next to nix: “I jumped on it – it was a massive $2400,” he laughs. “The car was painted gold, so I gave it a quick change of colour over the next six days to a solid shade of green.”
Powered by a 202ci with Trimatic and with a lowered stance and a set of mags, the HD soon became a sweet turnkey daily.
Over the following seven years, Darren turned up the wick by adding an SC14 Toyota supercharger, before a rebuild of the old red motor saw the blower swapped out for a cheap AR70 turbo. “It went hard,” says Darren of the hairdryer-assisted combo. “But the supercharger looked lonely on the shed floor, so after a lot of nutting out, she became twin-charged, running the turbo through the carby, which was on top of the SC14.”
The home-built monster never saw a dyno, though it was good for a mid-eight on the eighth-mile. But the twin-charged affair proved temperamental: “It was somewhat unreliable, blowing head gaskets quite often,” Darren admits.
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