The Engineer

I recently saw an article (one of the Chevy mags) about the hybrid block that accepts LSX heads.

WD

tomcowle

The block is made by World, enough said. It will be poorly cast and full of porosity.

The new RHS block is a good good piecefor big inch LSX STUFF..

rskrause

x2!

PHINES LT1

is this the case with most of the World products? i was heavily considering one of there motown crate engines.

fasteddie94

Thanks for the input. I'd like to clear up a couple things though. I had no intention of ever running a TPI, LT or LS motor. I was entertaining the idea of starting with thouse chassis since it's pretty easy to come up with suspension pieces. As has already been said it's best to go tube chassis. And no I have no intention of running the street. It's a street night, NHRA Street legal drags.

rskrause, thanks for the info. It's definatley not going to be an overnight ordeal, long from it. I can guarentee that I am in no way shape or from ready to step into that kind of a car. The gameplan was to start with something I could build off of and work my way throught the liscensing, get some good experience in a fast car, and in a few years be ready to step in and be a serious contender.

With that said I'm off to scower the interweb for some rolling chassis. Thanks again.

rskrause

I have given serious thought and done quite a bit of "bench racing" related to a heads up car for "quick" events. Even around here, that would mean running the 1/8 in less than 4 seconds and and mid 6's in the 1/4. What I tired to figure out was the most economical way to go that quick. Also, how to do it with as little maintainence as possible. Besides the idea of buying a roller, the key seems to be to go BIG on the motor. If you don't have to turn it to the moon, the maintainence is going to go way down. I think the nitrous route would be a bit less expensive than a blower. But the cost is just prohibitive.

mls48341

I think a big inch turbo is the way to the winners circle in heads up racing.
It's more expensive at the outset, but operating costs are WAY cheaper than
nitrous motors. Bottom line, a competitive 10.5 Outlaw car is a 6 figure proposition easily.
Hell, I've got 40+ in my N/A true 10.5 car.

ayers1967

At Orlando last year after the race was over I looked a about 10 cars that were that fast .And could be bought for 50k to 75k. Just a though .

reamo04

not sure if you watch dragrace high or not, they have a 94 camaro, witha 4 link ushin 750 at the wheels runnin 5.4s this season

otherwise, i know of a couple guys running 5.4's with mustangs with turbos (cheap $600 turbos at that)

get something even lighter youd be set.

or head over to vpracecars.com and buy a chassis, throw your motor/trans in it and be good to go if you can make the power

rskrause

Even around here (not a hot bed of racing) that kind of hp is nowhere near enough even in a very light car. You need to be in the 4.5 second range in the 1/8 and 7.0 in the 1/4 to qualy.

Rich