Good guy alert...
My car WAS a partnership car, with Freddie Nielsen, when one day about 4 months ago, he makes me an offer I can't refuse, to have it ALL MINE, so I take him up on it.
So generous was his offer, he basically GAVE me the car, after his having performed countless hours of A-1 quality work on it and having spent considerable cash...
Another "good guy"!
It's all my project now, which got me to thinking about the enormity of this undertaking, and how much work is involved.
It's a LOT for an old geezer like me (I'm 75; Freddie's 76!) and would be virtually impossbile without lots of help from more experienced people.
Well, it's hard to find people with experience in turbocharged slant sixes... look around; do you see any???? LOL!
But, there was one guy who took us under his wing and offered a TON of well-advised, educated, INVALUABLE help to get us started with this daunting project.
His name is Tom Wolfe, and his FABO moniker is shaker223.
He had built a turbocharged slant six that made over 500 horsepower on gasoline, and powered his 3,300-pound '70 Dart to an 11.02 at over 120mph, in the quarter-mile.
See it run, here...
[ame="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EAxRmoDgsdY"]Turbo charged Slant 6 11.02 @ 120.56 - YouTube[/ame]
As I understand it, that run was into a 15-mph headwind!
Anyway, he OBVIOUSLY knows what he is doing with this, and offered to share what he knows with me and my partner, completely.
He started out by giving us detailed information on what pistons and rods to buy, and where, and endless lists of necessary parts for assembly. He even engineered a lower-price group buy for stronger, special-order, ARP head studs, which we participated in.
He set up our blow-thru (Holley) carb, and built a deep (oil) pan for us.
We lived a thousand miles from this guy and had never met him...
AND we were almost twice his age!
Still...
He saved us untold dollars and kept us from running up countless blind alleys... saving us many, many, hours in the building process.
He did it all for just a few small (minimal) fees for time and materials it had cost him.
His contribution to our car was PRICELESS!
That kind of help is just impossible to find!!! Really!
It's my car, now, and is about ready to make its first pass down the drag strip; the car is ready, and I have a new (to me) trailer to get it home, if it should need it.
Unfortunately, the weather is not cooperating right now, but it IS November, so I may have to wait awhile.
In the meantime, I would like to take this opportunity to say that this whole turbo slant six idea, and its successful implementation, is in NO WAY mine; I am not that smart.
No, Tom led the way (along with Ryan Peterson's having built and tuned a similar motor,) doing all the endless R & D to make things work the way they should.... and then sharing all of that with us.
Without his expert advice and generous help. we still wouldn't have the head on this thing...
Thank you, Tom!!!! You da man!:cheers:
Bill
