That's interesting, let me know if you are ever in LA racing, I would love to come watch.

I'd love to race lugna seca speedway.. but for the most part I stick to the south east race tracks, mostly Florida and Georga .

Laguna's OK but Sears/Infineon and Thunderhill blow it away.

How so?


700-800 horsepower from 4000-8000 rpm is pretty good. Sure, below 4k it's pretty dead, but once the power is on, it's on!


:)

Nice car!

It sure is nice. Almost looks better then the Lambo. But I am sure by the time it comes out, Lambo or Ferrari will have something way better.

ya but at 2000 rpm im already at 650lbft of torque and by 4000 rpm i put 3 car lengths on you and by 6500 rpm im hitting the rear tires with over 900lbft of torque. And we only got 1320 ft to play with.

Damn, you guys sure know your cars. Good thing I only drive them. Way to much info there. Do you guys build your own cars or just race them.

I do both, mainly wrench and build the motors. Heres some history for ya, you can thank Ford for bringing you the dual overhead cam engine to the masses....way back in the early 60's. Below is a 427 "cammer" that if you wanted to buy today in original condition would cost more than most peoples house, if you can find one.<br><br>http://www.feetfantasys.com/cammer1.jpg <br>http://www.feetfantasys.com/cammer2.jpg :glugglug

still race ya :-)



http://talentcars.com/images/stangBig8.jpg

http://talentcars.com/images/stangBig4.jpg

http://talentcars.com/images/stangBig2.jpg

http://www.saleens281.com/images/800x600/Dsc00727.jpg
My baby - I'm going to be putting it up on Ebay pretty soon.

Nice car.


I'm into Imports (mainly Nissans), building them for both drag and drift racing. I used to own a parts company but closed that a few months ago.

7.8 second....not bad!

That is Crazy, I've built some old 350's back in the days, but man, that is one engine. Are you putting that in that mustang.

You still have this old thing? I would of thought you would of traded it in for a new one by now. J/K LOL

LoL, nice

Who starts a race from 2000 rpms? :)


What kinda 1/4 time would you do on DOT tires?

if we're still talking about that 7 second mustang... im not sure why he would ever even think about putting street tires on it, and shouldnt that thing idle around 4k??

Sweet lookin cammer...


My dads got one in his flatbottom....
.. he just called and told me to come get it

BIG B

You better go get it before someone else does.

snatch it ASAP if I were you. Rare is the word of the decade for that motor:thumbsup

I can launch the car off the footbrake and not the transbrake off idle and it will still pull 1.15 ish 60ft times. Use the transbrake and it wil go sub 1 sec 60 fts' As for street tires, look at what mustangs are doing on 10.5 ET street tires and you will shit your pants. And it idles graciously at 1800 rpm

What the hell is a transbrake. Since when do we have breaks on the transmission.

Yeah, Dal Singhra(sp?) runs in the 8's at like, 170 mph in his "street" mustang here in Canada.

However, you can use the term "Street" lightly as the car doesn't exactly run or handle very well in traffic. :)

I want the intake and cams for my car, my eventual goal is to get minimum 600 rwhp on 94 octane pump gas with methanol injection or a secondary fuel tank with C16 for 900+ rwhp on demand. As far as traction goes, I'm going to get the Realtime traction control system. :)

It locks up the trans while being able to set launch rpm without any internal damage and once you release the transbrake hold the fuck on:glugglug

the term street is used very loosely, but since it became a huge class turnout for the mustang crowd they have been using things like real street drives of 50 miles in traffic with no modifications to the car before or after and they still run 8's. Fuck no my stang doesnt turn worth a shit. Thats not the intention. Always have been and always will be an american iron guy. No interest in anything else. To each his own though.

Yeah, I still love AI. I'd really like to build something along the lines of a big block chevy in a '64 Nova II ( I think that's the year, I love those cars in black. )with two of the turbos off of my Supra on it. I don't know what block would be cheap / reliable at levels beyond 1000+ rwhp. With my Supra, the stock shortblock costs less than $2,000 US to replace and it can handle 1000 rwhp. Someone told me before if I wanted a big block to handle that kinda power I would be looking at $20,000 US!!!!

Is that true?!?!?

For one understand the rotating mass in 6's is obviously alot less than a v8. Slinging all that weight around at 7k rpm is stress alone on internal parts. BBC like the 454 is dirt cheap and every chevy pickup truck in the 70's had one. Go to an american junkyard and get the long block for 100 dollars max. Shoot for 1.75-2.0 hp per cubic inch and you have your self 800-1000 hp very easily with a big block. Im no import expert but looking at the law of physics up and beyond 1000 hp in a flat head 6 is gonna run you a shit load more than 2000 dollars to keep it alive and reliable. From my experiences with a few guys who played with supras, reliability is a huge issue. Maybe they have changed. Also remember big blocks dont need twin turbos to make huge power. A naturally aspirated flat 6 would be an absolute dog without a power adder such as turbo. You could easily build a 454 making 800hp for dirt cheap. They live forever to which is a bonus:glugglug

Sounds like we need to have a hot rod building competition on this board, we can end up turning it into a reality show on Discover. What do you guys think. We all start with the same body, and the same size engine block. We then have 3 months to put it all together and see what turns out the best looking and the fastest.

Who wants to pick out the car. We can do the 64 Nova if you wish.

I would do a turbo'ed '64 Nova II.


Vet:

The 2JZ GTE engine is extremely reliable. My stock longblock has 112,000 miles on it, no smoke, and it's had a hard life!


Many, many Supras have put out 800+ rwhp on the stock block. I believe there are several Supras in the 900-1000 rwhp range on the stock block. I believe around 1000 rwhp is the limit on the stock shortblock. Those shortblocks cost $2,000 US from Toyota. :)

http://www.toohighpsi.com/


MAD props to this guy. I'd love to something similar to his single turbo Thunderbird in a Nova II. :)


454... big turbo... drool. :)

right, im sayin anything above and beyond that you aint gettin for no 2 grand thats for sure. Did they fix the notorious blown head gasket issue with 20+ lbs of boost?

nice car and expensive off course...

The newer (93+) Supras never had a head gasket problem... The older turbo supras (87-92) had the weak head gaskets.

Ok thats what it was, my buddys 92 ate head gaskets for lunch with 20lbs of boost, weekly

I have a 55 chevy truck that needs finished :)

Awesome, so we all buy one part for it, you install it and you sell it and we divide the profits equally. What do you think. :thumbsup

Crocket, do you have any pictures of your 55 Chevy Truck.
Would love to see how much work it needs.

I drive the motorcycle equivalent of American Iron

http://www.drguile.com/pic/vmax06.jpg


funny its a japanese bike ;)

Bone stock, 145hp, 0-60 in 4.5s, 1/4 miles in the 10's

what series is that car going to be raced in?