Cobra Eater- or Iteration part deux
After much harassing from my 2 sons- they have convinced me to step up and go for the hail mary
After spending 3 years building my sons runway top speed car he convinced me to step up to his motor so he can pursue his Viper dream race car so we are sticking this into my 68 MGB GT [www.youtube.com] With the Procharger he was well into 4 figures, so it should be plenty for my little car Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 10/28/2014 08:56PM by G.R.. |
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Right now he is running a F1-X at about 12-1350hp depending on fuel and tune
Our plan is to see how it runs w/o a blower at 6-700 hp and if we can do enough to the chassis maybe put a YSI blower back on for 900+hp. And then try some of the smaller runway events I know a lot of people will question our motives, but this will not be a drag car at all. They are roll on races. Much easier to control how the car handles and what abuse it can take |
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My son does the ones in Texas
His favorite is the Texas Invitational- what started as fun with 1000hp has now gotten serious with cars over 2300hp now-That why he is moving from the supercharged Vette to a twin turbo Viper- but he still wont have enough to match the top cars-(It's amazing the speed that money buys) Some of the Lambos will have $500k+ invested I will start a little smaller and go with one called the Runway Rivalry also in Texas- they limit cars to 1000hp max |
MGBV8 Carl Floyd Kingsport, TN (4511 posts) Registered: 10/23/2007 11:32PM Main British Car: 1979 MGB Buick 215 |
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rficalora Rob Ficalora Willis, TX (2764 posts) Registered: 10/24/2007 02:46PM Main British Car: '76 MGB w/CB front, Sebring rear, early metal dash Ford 302 |
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I'll admit I don't know anything about LQ9's... But it looks to me like the spark plug holes would be inaccessible if the motor is mounted where it's sitting in the pic. What am I missing?
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Scott68B Scott Costanzo Columbus, Ohio (561 posts) Registered: 10/25/2007 11:30AM Main British Car: 1968 MGB GM 5.3 LS4 V8 |
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G. R.
I'd really be interested in seeing the firewall mods you've done. I'll be watching your progress with interest. Scott |
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I cut mine back a little more then you. I wanted to make sure I had a lot of clearance to aid in air flow for cooling. Not sure if it will actually help (if not I just added extra work in cleaning up the holes) but I thought it was worth a try
I will have some pics with the engine back out shortly |
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