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11/5/13, 2:08 PM   #1
25K national midget engine
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Esslinger Engineering is offering their national type XT and Right Side Intake engines for 25K
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11/6/13, 1:01 PM   #2
Re: 25K national midget engine
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The price of racing is coming down, the XT is a quality product at at a somewhat reduced cost. Hope that it helps keep the midget division going for a few more years. But something in the $10,000.00 to $15000.00 range would bring about a full blown resurgence of the class.

My question is the old 2 valve and single cam heads are obsolete in everything except auto racing. Esslinger builds a very strong motor and make its own castings as required. If they could develop a 4 valve head with two cams even under USAC rules now wouldn't it be the motor of choice. It would also probably do away with valve spring replacement and cut the cost of ownership down quite a bit, it probably would not even require Ti valves and parts with those smaller valves.

Then go one step further and convert it to the big bang design and on a dry slick dirt track it would probably be unbeatable.

BUT heck it is already unbeatable, so why change? Make that the 20-20 update.

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11/7/13, 11:31 AM   #3
Re: 25K national midget engine
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For the DIY racers out there this JUST might be a pretty good deal. I did a little off the wall figuring and When taken alone the parts prices would approach their asking price of the motor and the assembly time dyno time and experience is given free.

It is ashame we cant find an inexpensive alternate to power these cars.

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