Thanks! The slant six car shows a lot more effort than the '72, but the '72 was fun, too, because it was the first forced-induction car I had ever built and I did it without a "kit" of any kind, and did it alone. I learned a little bit building it, so when it came time to think about the blow-thru aspects of the slant six car, I wasn't completely "flying blind"... but, almost.
I had LOTS of help, in a lot of different ways, building the turbo car... in fact, I'd say that I did less than half of the work on that car. My partner, Freddie, spent many hours working on it, and it shows.... I had nothing to do with cleaning it up from sitting in an open field for 15 years. for instance, nor did I TOUCH the header as it was being built... Freddie did all of that, the design and cut-and-try, himself! We did hire a welder to TIG it as Freddie has a de-fibrilator implanted in his chest and isn't supposd to be near an electric welder when it's doing its thing.
Hopefully, the slant six car will handily outrun the V8; that was our original intention, but we'll see... I can't wait to get them both to the strip at one time and run them off... The inline car is is a little over 600-pounds lighter...
I think it's going to take about fifteen pounds of boost in the leaning tower of power to show the V8 car the way home... The V8 car has 10-pounds.
We'll see... :banghead:
I am the idiot in the "Doctor of Motors" white coat in the photo, below....
