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Originally Posted by Jim Gardner
Legends cars have to run some 1970s technology air cooled Yamaha that you have to buy through 600 racing at about 3x market value. Turned sideways with a clutch and driveshaft. It works for them. The lightning sprints use modern import 1000cc bike engines run in the same orientation as the bike, with a chain running along the left frame rail direct to a sprocket on the rear end. There is significantly less mechanical power lost through the drivetrain compared to a legend, dwarf car, mod lite or anything else running a bike motor with a driveshaft.
Apparently the Ambrose family out of Owensboro Kentucky were the first to figure out the chain drive idea while running tqs and whipped everyone's rear until rules were changed.
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Coulda been the car builder, Scott Klein, the 2 stroke Konig engine, or the fact that Ronnie was just very good at reading a track, and Scott a good setup man, I owned one of these cars, and they were very free cars, no bind up in the corners, funny part was, they kept cutting the displacement to try and slow Ronnie down, and that didn't work, so they outlawed the 2 strokes, he went to a Honda, and still wupped up on them. Bob