From:
Phantom402_REMOVE_934889_THIS_@yahoo.com
Hey Cliff,
Back in 98 on the East coast Power
Tour I met some of the guys at Rousch Racing when they
opened up there shop in Mooresville NC and put some tour
member cas on there chasis dyno(mine included)and a
fella working there by the name of Phill had a 80 turbo
ta with a destroked 400 with hand built fuel
injection designed on a Torker II and older motec fuel
injection from a Porche racer that ran 166 at silver states
and since he put the th2004r built by Art Car he got
20 plus mile to the gallon(if he kept his foot) out
of it and i do believe he either had 3.43 or 3.73's
but its been almost 4 yrs and im not sure what he ran
for rear gear BUT he ran 166 (he had some straight
trap speed slips that a local electronics company
handed out after race as they tested there equipment for
super speedway clocking) so getting good mileage is
possible and he was bragging that he only had $5500 in the
whole car,(he traded building a tow truck engine for
the paint job,{jet black and straight as a
pin}).
I had a fella in another room tell me that a 383
couldnt make 588 lb ft of torque then Hot Rod shows a
crate 383 making 502 with very little work,(ours had
race ported heads/intake an a custom CAM MOTION
cam).
But anyway i dont knock any ones stuff as i have
helped on race cars and race engines that do some very
impressive things for less than the "big name builders" do
because we dont slave ourselves to a narrow number of
parts.
I called a company to recreate a race engine for a
friend that was out of town for a week long race and
they wouldnt because they wouldnt use the cam company
we used to recreate the cam or piston company we
used.
Their excuse was they couldnt get a good
enough deal to make it worth there time(and we were
going to pay them $6000 to build an engine! and they
wouldnt use parts we wanted!!!!).oh well we found a small
town speed shop near by the track and they built the
engine and only charged $1400 and the car went out and
ran .015 under its best ever time there and my
customer made it to semis and brought home $12500 (less
repairs bills and expensise)but hey he made a $1000
dollars over his regular paycheck while on vacation
hehehe.
Lee
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