Valiant Effort!!!

At the risk of over-saturating FABO (these pictures have graced these cyber-pages many times) I'll post them since you asked.

Two Valiants: First is the more interesting one, I think, because it is AA/Different...


'64 Valiant V-200 more-door (we couldn't find a 2-door)

Turbocharged 225 1964 motor
Ported head with 1.75"/1.5" valves, not milled
Wiseco 3.065" pistons/K1 198-length forged rods, ARP 220,000-psi head studs;crank turned .010"/.010"
Cam by Bullet with .484"-lift (1.5:1 rockers,) 210/210 duration @ .050"-lift, ground on 115-degree lobe centers
Homemade header, Aussir long-runner intake (wrong for this enine, I think
Holley 750 double pumper, blow-thru carb
Chrysler distributor with a locked plate and no vacuum advance mechanism
18 degrees of spark advance
10 pounds of boost so far (we are newbies at this and are starting out small.)
904 tranny with mods
3500 rpm stall converter
2,670 pounds without driver
8.75" rear end with 3.55 Sure Grip gearing Yukon axles
Hoosier 15"-diameter, 26:-tall, 9"-wide slicks, bias-ply
90/10 shocks in the front; 50.50 in the back
Cal Tracs
7290 U-joints
6-point Roll bar welded in
8-gallon fuel cell
Walbro fuel pump
Aeromotive fuel presssure regulator
3/8" fuel and 1/2"-return lines
9:1 measured static compression
cold NGK plugs

This engine is a close copy of Tom Wolfe's engine. He is a MUCH better horsepower wrangler than we are, so we don't expect our engine to perform anything like his, but his makes approximately 500 horsepower, going 11-flat @ 120 in a 3,400-pound car into a 15mph headwind.

If we can gat 400hp out of this bucket of bolts, we'll be really, really happy! That would give us quarter-mile times in the 11.30s @ about 118mph.

That's a lot easier to say than it is to do, however, and saying it doesn't make it true! Talk is cheap... we'll see.

This has been a 4-year project for us and it is finally about to be ready for the drag strip.

Anyway, here's some pix...

I love this car :prayer: