Re: our cars on the cover of the latest ZOOM magazine.
Sat, 07 December 2002 06:59
juzzo the car is in one piece for the magazine shoot as it was down three months ago hence it is still turboed and has now got a 350 chev as an 800hp turbo just dosnt cut it on the race track against 700hp 350 chevs. sorry to say that the old v8 dinasaurs are still miles faster around the track than any turbo motor.
and yes Youngy love my job get to drive and build some very fast cars on the road and track. the national race car team i run as my main job runs a calibra sport sedan, last week at the supercar round at sandown i had just fitted a hydrofork{throwout bearing} and had to test{:) } it in the pit rows at the race track, the rows are about 10 feet wide lined with race cars and transporters{but it ways about 6pm so not many people around}. we use a 3.7 diff{for sandown} with a hollinger dog box with the same gearing as the v8 supercars, i nailed it in 1st{big burnout} knocked it in to 2nd another burnout changed to 3rd and the thing went ballistic {has about 680hp{engine dyno not make believe chassis stuff} with about 520ft\p of torque at 3500rpm onwards}, then jumped on the anchors{8 spot brembos with 355mm x 1 inch rotors}. lots of fun . haha got back to the bay and the owner said how was the hydro fork? and i said what hydro fork, this f@#@@#@ new motor is ballistic with a big grin.
mick
p.s 0-100km\h would be about 2.5-3.5 seconds in a sport sedan.
Sat, 07 December 2002 06:59
