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Chinese automakers have a consistently good track record making reliable cars ( i.e. Toyota )...
Love that license plate
For the lazy, here is the dyno sheet from the ad. Car must be a flipping blast to drive.
Most folks took the vanity tag at face value and didn't understand the reference to the Eaton M112 Supercharger. The mods to the car to get it from factory 390hp to 473hp at the wheel were miniscule. I added a 2.76 pulley, an idler and had a tune done. That's it. The Terminators came with real (not sintered) forged pistons and Manley H-beam rods from the factory. The engines are ripe for big boost. There are plenty of '03 - '04 Cobras out there in the 700+ hp range with nothing more than a bigger supercharger and some fuel system mods. Mine was small time peanuts in comparison. It was a handful though. There was no hook-up in 1st gear even with 315 drag radials. 2nd gear pulls to 60mph were fun as were 40mph roll races. It was (is) a stupid fast car.
Most folks took the vanity tag at face value and didn't understand the reference to the Eaton M112 Supercharger. The mods to the car to get it from factory 390hp to 473hp at the wheel were miniscule. I added a 2.76 pulley, an idler and had a tune done. That's it. The Terminators came with real (not sintered) forged pistons and Manley H-beam rods from the factory. The engines are ripe for big boost. There are plenty of '03 - '04 Cobras out there in the 700+ hp range with nothing more than a bigger supercharger and some fuel system mods. Mine was small time peanuts in comparison. It was a handful though. There was no hook-up in 1st gear even with 315 drag radials. 2nd gear pulls to 60mph were fun as were 40mph roll races. It was (is) a stupid fast car.
I posted some time ago that Ben Barnes was building a little something special .... here it is.
468 cubic inch small block. Every piece of this motor is one-off custom grind .... Billet heads, pistons, and rods. Custom ground crank, and cam. Billet oil pan, billet valve covers, custom made intake running mechanical fuel injection and 2 throttle bodies at 17:1 compression. It goes on the dyno this week and I'll post up the numbers. Ben anticipates top HP will occur at about 8500. Motor will stay naturally aspirated (That's good at 17:1 ).
Initial dyno pulls will happen on race gas and later re-calibrated to run on alcohol. Alcohol will cost a little HP but that's what the owner wants.
Build time = 200+ hours. Ben hasn't added up the total $ yet.
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Those are HOSES feeding the intake runners. Holy crap. Dry sump oiling. What kind of ignition system is that?
I'd love to read more about the mechanical injection system.
Correct, belt driven Jesel type ignition. Chevy guys run them so they can shove the motor closer to the firewall, however, there is also a performance reason for running one ... valve spring loads have gotten insane to the point it will twist the cam. A rear distributor will then have timing flux due to the twisting (the same thing happens to the valves .... valves in the rear of the motor are behind the timing of the front valves).
I feel like it's obvious to move to an overhead cam design if that's the design limit. Holy crap that's got to be a lot of spring tension.