Re: 8 second typhoon
yep you're absolutely right... it's a V8. it's a fast V8 though right? and it's awd right? and it's a typhoon right? and it's not a tubecar but a real frame typhoon, and it's lighter weight right? it's exactly what it says in the post... it'a a V8 twin turbo race typhoon. we are talking about racing here aren't we???????
so, let me understand this....if you have a bowtie block, aluminum head, roller cam, special intake, monster turbo, tube header, 4L80E trans, nitrous burning, aftermarket computer, vacume pump, water or alcohol injection, aftermarket rearend, big propshaft, and a ton more in a V6 motor that's just crammed with the most expensive power making parts available to buy or have custom built, and is beautifully built (and probably cost quite a bit more than my little V8) and is a very fast racecar, and has absolutely no power making parts that came in a factory syclone and has been re-built and refined many many times, what does that mean? this endless discussion of whether something is a V6 or V8 is pointless. when you talk racecars i thought the most important thing you were discussing was how fast it is, not whether it has a stock motor in it? once you choose your poison so to speak on what you're gonna race, i'm not sure how valid it is to limit yourself. what you're trying to do is get to the finish line first. when we get beat i don't give a damn what we got beat by, i just care that we got beat. PERIOD... if i have a shelby mustang and it gets beat by a lotus exige on a road course i don't care that i got beat by a lightweight little car that has high horsepower to weight. i just care that i got beat... but when you design a vehicle to race in an unlimited streetcar division and hopefully win the title of King of Europe it was more important for us to try to win that title than it was to limit ourselves by doing it any particular way. a V6 has advantages in being a little lighter and a V8 has the advantage of being able to produce more power ultimately. simple physics. i chose to try to make more power and lose a little weight in other areas. just like all the other racers in the world. if i thought putting a 5 cylinder diesel in it with 4 turbos and 3 superchargers would give me an advantage, i'd do it.... there's no denying that what i helped build is a racecar... :rant: geez... robert has a beautifully built racecar with a V6 that he thinks is the best way to get the job done in. and if he runs in the 8's and wins i'll be the first person to say damn fine job and congratulations....but we chose a different direction. to argue that one is a V6 and one a V8 is really a mute subject cause they're both pretty full blown race cars. that's like argueing that a door slammer racecar has anything to do with being something you can buy off the showroom floor stock. ours can be driven on the street if that's what we want to do, but a daily driver back and forth to the grocery store is not what it's all about..
this typhoon that i was responsible for building and designing the drivetrain on is a DART block with DART cnc ported heads, callies crank with oliver rods, roller cam with J&E pistons, twin turbo, 400 trans, 12 bolt rearend and a lot of other race/streetcar stuff that was designed to compete in the fastest streetcar competition and win King of Europe. and that's exactly what it did.... i've never made any bones about that. but here in the good ole USA when we talk racing we talk about winning. we race Fulton monster inch motors with 3 stages of enough nitrous to anesthesize a whole dental schools patients for an entire decade against all aluminum twin turbo bowtie V6's like my friend dave henninger from GM racing. it really doesn't matter. what matters in a racecar is winning. you either win or you lose. we ain't exactly talking bracket racing stock cars here....
now the bad part. i think this time i posted, which i have a time slip on, is not correct. i think it's in error. the vehicle has run numerous approximately 9 flats in the past, but i think there may have been an error on this timing. so for the time being the only mid to low 8 second vehicle i have anything to do with is the AWD vette which has a syclone awd system and run's low 8's. the typhoon won king of europe last year, and the vette won this year. and it's a V8 too.... :lol: the last 2 years have been good for us and both cars have tremendous more power on reserve that can be tapped when we need it. but for now we're doing pretty well with what we've got and we're gonna keep things the way they are. but it is nice to know that there's more power available when we want it and all we have to do is turn the boost up :rotf:
