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 Now THIS is a blower!
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Wed, 05 February 2003 02:45
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This overpowered brute was originally designed by Bob Norwood for NHRA drag racing. The car ran under the national class record with 7.0's at 170mph in the quarter mile until its gigantic Vortech-like centrifugal supercharger was outlawed by the NHRA. At this point the car ran a few exhibition drag races and then arrived at Bonneville in 1989 ready to take a massive ram at the world of top-speed racing.
Essentially, the car was a tube frame Ferrari 308 designed for Pro-Stock drag racing and fitted with funnycar-type composite body panels. The rear tires were massive slicks mounted on a narrowed Ford nine-inch rear axle - exactly like present-day Pro-stock drag machines. The transmission was a pressure-shifted Lenco unit with nine-inch gears. The front-mounted powerplant was an evil-looking thing surely smuggled into Texas directly from Hell you might guess ran on Plutonium waste or Di-lithium crystals or something much worse. Actually, the 308's engine ran on 120-octane super-premium race gasoline and was based on a Flat-12 Ferrari Boxer block fitted with 4-valve Testarossa heads, topped with a beautifully sculpted and truly massive air-water intercooler mounted directly on top of the block. The intercooler featured 12 super-high-flow electronic injectors spraying furiously into velocity stacks integral to the intercooler. The massive intercooler unit bolted directly to the heads and functioned as a combination intake plenum/intercooler/fuel rail/manifold unit.
The centrifugal blower - salvaged from a gigantic British locomotive engine that apparently no longer Thought It Could - was driven by a 1.5-inch shaft that traversed the length of the engine and was driven off the flywheel via a reversed Allison turbine helicopter gear-reduction unit originally designed to step down turbine velocities to something the main rotor could handle. The FAA required this type of gear reduction to be replaced after even a single emergency auto-rotation power-off landing, guaranteeing availability at fire-sale prices. The blower, looking like a hugely-overgrown Vortech blower sent back in time by The Machines to destroy all human life in 1989, had a five-inch impeller that was capable of gobbling air at the rate of something like 500 pounds per minute, a rate that could probably suck the air out of double-wide in less than 60 seconds!
The supercharged 12-cylinder Boxer engine, featuring a lightened flywheel and knife-edged crank, and could rev from the engine's 1200 RPM idle to the 9K redline in just over a tenth of a second, and had been certified on a Superflow 901 engine dyno to make 1400 horsepower on 120-octane gasoline at 60psi boost. The short-stroke 3.2-inch bore engine was upgraded with a billet Crower crankshaft, extra-long Crower rods, custom forged pistons, and was managed by a Haltech F3 EFI controller and a Firepower direct-fire 12-coil ignition. According to Norwood, each 24-valve head was carefully flowed and mildly ported for optimum forced breathing.
In 1989, the flat-12 308 arrived out west in time to make a few runs in Land Speed Record country with Greg Johnson at the wheel. However, before the car got a chance to break the 223 mph record for 5.0L and less blown modified sports cars (1400 horsepower should've made this look easy, assuming the car hadn't already entered a low earth orbit) the event was rained out.
"This may have been a good thing," allows Norwood.
[Updated on: Wed, 05 February 2003 05:20]
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GoldCoast/Brisbane
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May 2002
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Wed, 05 February 2003 03:21
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Muahhahahahaa look at the size of that TURBO!!!
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Location:
Wollongong
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May 2002
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Re: Now THIS is a blower!
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Wed, 05 February 2003 03:23
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Holy crap!
Where can I get a kit to fit the 1JZ 
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Location:
Rocky Mountains, Canada
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May 2002
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Wed, 05 February 2003 03:30
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| SPEEDCORE wrote on Wed, 05 February 2003 13:51 |
Muahhahahahaa look at the size of that TURBO!!!
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Its not a turbo.
Its a centrifugal supercharger.
Its the same thing as the compressor side of a turbo driven directly by the engine.
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Location:
Ipswich
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July 2002
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Wed, 05 February 2003 03:55
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What is the power output????
What are they using it for???
Would that fit in a RA28???
Hmmmm mind blowing
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GoldCoast/Brisbane
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May 2002
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Re: Now THIS is a blower!
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Wed, 05 February 2003 04:01
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Oh ok!! Cause if you look at the pic it looks like a MASSIVE Turbo compressor!! I must have gotten confused as it says that eventually it ran with turbo's!!
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Location:
Cabramatta, NSW
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May 2002
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Wed, 05 February 2003 05:15
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Hang two, I'll post the entire article up. 
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Location:
Hornsby, N.S.W
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September 2002
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Wed, 05 February 2003 06:14
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thats nothing, if you think thats mean, then you dont want me to pop the hood on my ta22. its a fire breathing 2t 
JUZZO
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Location:
Madrid - Spain
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August 2002
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Wed, 05 February 2003 08:14
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Did someone say 60psi ...........................................
.................................................. .................................................. .................................................. .................................................. .................................................. .................................................. .......................... Oops I'm drooling
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I supported Toymods
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Toodyay, WA
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July 2002
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Re: Now THIS is a blower!
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Wed, 05 February 2003 09:09
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I saw a 1UZ-FE in a article in Wheels a few years back that was running at 50psi, and on some silly soft of fuel. Was estimated to make 1500kW !
It was in a car called the ground fighter...
http://www.bradbowling.com/archives/articles/groun dfighter.shtml
This is all i could find quickly!
CamZH
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Wed, 05 February 2003 09:31
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Damn, you beat me to that by 8 minutes...
The ground-fighter was actually powered by a 1UZ running 2 superchargers on methanol  It was rated at 2,000HP
It's interesting to note that the bloke who built it, did a lot of research and looked around at a plethora of other engines (including small and big-block American iron), before settling on the 1UZ...probably because he didn't have to completely re-design it from scratch to get those kinds of numbers from it. (And, no, that isn't to say the engine was internally stock; far from it...it's just that there were some OEM parts - like the bottom end - which were good enough to be retained. Now that's tough!
(Where's that bloke with the 302?)
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I supported Toymods
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Toodyay, WA
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July 2002
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May 2002
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Wed, 05 February 2003 22:03
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Remember, it's not always how much money you spend, but how you spend it.
Toyota obviously put their $1 billion to good use. GM, on the other hand, spent approx. $1 billion designing the GEN3...and it still has push-rods!?!?? (That means, WTF?)
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I supported Toymods
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Sutho/Hills NSW
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September 2002
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Re: Now THIS is a blower!
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Wed, 05 February 2003 22:27
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looks like it has 2 20v's 
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Location:
Japan
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December 2002
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Thu, 06 February 2003 09:57
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OK if anyone is crazy enough to do this sort of shit to their cars message me...i have 2 turbos and a supercharger that will push ALOT of air. Mind you the biggest problem will be producing enough exhaust flow to spin the turbos (and enough power to spin the supercharger) as they all come come of 12 litre GM V8s! But if you don't mind a "little" bit of lag then the setup should provide hours of fun! hehehe... a tad peaky for the turbos though.
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Sydney
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July 2002
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Thu, 06 February 2003 22:16
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riceboy: Is the supercharger roots or centrifugal?
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Location:
Japan
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December 2002
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Fri, 07 February 2003 09:13
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big roots type. I would love to fit it to my 4AGE Sprinter right out the middle of the bonnet MAD MAX style! hehehe...
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Gold Coast
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January 2003
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Sat, 08 February 2003 13:39
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"could rev from the engine's 1200 RPM idle to the 9K redline in just over a tenth of a second", all most died when i saw that. and check out the size of the throttle body, it in the size range of rice's exhausts tips. 
Nezza 
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