bespoke supports for the cam and all sorts inside that
1000hp
dave
Posted: Thu Oct 24, 13 5:00 pm
by db
Strewth! as they say
Posted: Thu Oct 24, 13 5:05 pm
by Pete
Looks a bit nervous at the top end and on shifts, but bloody 'ell!!
Posted: Thu Oct 24, 13 6:36 pm
by Mossy68
Very impressive.
Posted: Thu Oct 24, 13 7:02 pm
by Dave81
Nice setup.........
Posted: Thu Oct 24, 13 7:12 pm
by CLPete
Evening - it's quite impressive.
But, there is something I've never understood about this area of cars (me being the "grandpa" style owner). I know that it is supposed to be a Centura, but isn't it really a tube chassis with a highly engineered engine set up, cloaked in the covering of a car (in this case, the Centura).
How much of the original car would there be in something like this?
Just curious like, not being my area and all.
Practically nothing, apart from the body and of that probably only the roof and the rear quarters will be original, the rest of the panels will be fibreglass.
Posted: Thu Oct 24, 13 7:26 pm
by Cannonball
jeez if that can run that on a ropey old inline six and one lagging great turbo what the hell is marks cuda gonna run 6,ss maybe
and that car i think is a chrysler 180 to us guys, big avenger
Posted: Thu Oct 24, 13 9:58 pm
by db
Dont see why not Dunc, quality and power-wise it's up there with the drag week stuff!
think the motor needs a rebuild every half hour or so but mental from a 4.3 litre
More door
of course it is
its Australian. they liked 2 doors for about 5 minutes between 71 and 74 after that the only 2 door that got a look in were panal vans
their favorite muscle car is a 4 door
check out the Falcon GTHO phase III
looks like a big mk 2 cortina but you could buy one as a 16 year old and have 400+ bhp under your right foot off the garage forecourt and then collide with the nearest lamp post on the way home.
chrylser did the charger R/T to compete, lighter 1250KG with 300 hp
big scandal in the press, bullets on wheels availble to kids, death distruction and the end of homologation specials available to the public.
chrylser were toying with the 340 at the time...would have made a mental aussie charger if they'd stuck with the manual 4 speed
Dave
Posted: Fri Oct 25, 13 8:46 am
by Dave999
Cannonball wrote:a ropey old inline six
Oy
thats not a ropey old inline six its a semi 6....
or a poly six...
the one thing it isn't is a hemi in anything but name, but still.
for what in usual mopar terms is a tiny tiny motor they do alright...
Dave
Posted: Fri Oct 25, 13 9:15 am
by Kev
From the youtube title, some peeps on FB thought it was a usual Hemi with 6 turbos running 7's.....
Posted: Fri Oct 25, 13 9:45 am
by Dave999
one has to ask why only 6
surely 8 turbos on a real 8 cylinder hemi is the correct number
who cares if the car has an engine bay designed around a 2 litre 4 pot
there will still be pleanty of space for all that plumbing.... he can mount the radiator on the roof like a big sail and get the advantage of a following wind