Badass Super Seven powered by Mopar

Jon · Post by **Jon** » Mon Nov 12, 12 1:28 pm

Dave wrote:There is a guy with something like that (Maybe a Westfield or Spartan or something?) with SBC power that used to be regular at York Raceway.

It was bloody quick.

was that Russ with the dutton?

Dave-R · Post by **Dave-R** » Mon Nov 12, 12 1:31 pm

Yellow? That might be it. Small block Chevy?

Jon · Post by **Jon** » Mon Nov 12, 12 2:47 pm

Yeah it was yellow with a nitroused small block, and ran 9s I think.

Anonymous · Post by **Anonymous** » Mon Nov 12, 12 3:19 pm

Pete wrote:Agreed, but lots of power and no weight is a great starting point

Right Pete .......... look in the face from the front passenger

so long
TOM

Cannonball · Post by **Cannonball** » Mon Nov 12, 12 3:29 pm

Dave81 wrote:
Pete wrote:
shovelheadrob wrote:I don't think you'd get it to hook up Pete, you'd struggle with weight transfer & a lack of weight to transfer aswell. Would be fun to play with though.
We saw a "Basic" 7 hammer a Ferrari 355 at the Pod.
Must have been a massive ego deflater for the man with the trophy blonde.

Nope, He still owns the Ferrari and bangs the trophy blonds most nights!

Have the win.....I'll take the rest!

now thats my sort of action, cept that old ferrari would have to get breathed on so i could have it all.......

V8 Sam · Post by **V8 Sam** » Mon Nov 12, 12 5:31 pm

Awesome car.

But I'd rather something 2.0 and supercharged in there.

Save on the fuel. Be just as quick.

Dave-R · Post by **Dave-R** » Mon Nov 12, 12 6:50 pm

V8 Sam wrote:
Save on the fuel. Be just as quick.

Mmm. Probably not a lot better on fuel. Not with the same performance. And reliability would suffer.

V8 Sam · Post by **V8 Sam** » Mon Nov 12, 12 7:04 pm

what about the twin bike engined jobbies?

Dave-R · Post by **Dave-R** » Tue Nov 13, 12 10:22 am

What about them?

You make torque by burning fuel.

You make HP by making torque at high RPM. The higher the RPM you make torque at the more HP you have.

But the higher the RPM, the faster you are burning fuel.

At the end of the day there is no free lunch. The amount of power you make depends completely on how much fuel you burn.

Pete · Post by **Pete** » Tue Nov 13, 12 10:31 am

The only "free" lunch is a turbo, as you are making use of energy you would have previously wasted.

However, they cost money and you still have to squirt more fuel in to support the compressed air............

The Barracuda used 7.5Litres of fuel per run. Any power added costs more.