Originally Posted by bobby01:
Someone spent $8000 dollars on a lightning sprint motor?? I would like to meet this guy I've got some ocean front property in Kansas that's for sale. All I can say is they saw him coming!!
Dad you are right it's 90% set up 5% driver and 5% luck.
Bobby Layne
Bobby if you got the money there are several companys that would be glad to set you up. We have raced with these guys before they are not that much faster, They do make a big mess when they let go. And the poor guy is slow for about a month or so.
Back in the 1200 cc days these motors almost killed mini sprints. Car counts were dropping like a rock. Around here old Allen Ruppenthal of ERC race cars saw potential of these 1000 cc motors. He installed one in one of his cars got the best driver in the area and proceeded to put the woop a** on the old 1200cc cars. These engines were as hot out of the box as one of them "Orent Express" 1200 motors and they lived forever. The only bad thing or maybe good things is they don't take kindly to being hot rodded.
About the best thing you can do for one of them is convert it over to menthanol. It won't help out much in the HP department but it will drop the coolant temp down to where the thermostat can take care of the heat. You "do" need the thermostat for the ecm to know what to do. When they get over hot they go into what they call "Limp Home Mode", and cut back on all the adjustments.
Honest Dad himself
