Man, it seems like you guys are really on the right track with this liteweight dragster! You told me that your group had interest in building a turbocharged slant six for the future, and I am wondering how that is going. It doesn't seem to be too difficult to build a 500 horsepower slant six if you put a turbo on it, and that would put the dragster into the high sevens at best, or low 8's at worst... and, you could run Super Comp at NHRA races with it! :cheers: The fans would go WILD with you outrunning all those Big Block Chevies with a FED dragster powered by a slant six... LOL! OR, you could put the engine into the green Lancer for some easy nine second passes (Wallace racing calculators shows a 9.96-second e.t. for 2,500 pounds with 500 horsepower) at 135+mph. That's probably pretty close... That Lancer has a powertrain setup that REALLY takes advantage of EVERY horsepower!!! I am totally in awe of its naturally-aspirated performance.. it's really fun to watch, but I think it might be even more fun with the turbo engine you guys are (reportedly) building. Any chance of that happening?
I am making some progress on my own project; it ran 7.70 @ 91.5mph on just 15 pounds of boost, last time out at Centerville (1/8th mile.) That equates to a 12-seconds flat and 112 mph in the quarter, according to the Wallace online calcculator, and the driver (not me,) was off tthe throttle three times on tht run because of handling problems. We're working on that. Plans are for 20 pounds of boost, next time out... Talk's cheap; we'll see...
