midget engines?

8ball (Offline)
#31 2/15/08 11:42 AM

Originally Posted by wobbler:
I'd look again! I can see 4 exhaust ports and definitely 4 inlets on the side you can see. I would say that the angle of the photos obscures some of the detail!

Upon closer inspection, you are right. The valve cover blocks out the closest spark plug hole. :doh:

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Gasman fan 50 (Offline)
#32 2/18/08 7:17 PM

Originally Posted by Hawker:
Gregg Bragg from California has had some sucess running a Honda car engine in his midget. The engine is close to stock, just minor head work and the fuel system. The engine is capable of turning 16,000 RPM, but they turn it around 12k to 14k if I remember our conversation correct.

Remember the old Kenyon midget with the SESCO V8 Suzuki? There was one of these for sale at the 2007 Chili Bowl

Here is the next BIG thing coming out of the rice burner world. It is a V8 Suzuki Hayabusa!!! Imagine 455bhp with 255 foot pounds of torque at 10,500 RPM......And it only weighs 200 pounds!!! CALLING ANDY BONDIO!!!

Just an $30,000 or more for an engine!:rolling

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Hawker (Offline)
#33 2/18/08 7:39 PM

I'm not talking USAC, I'm talking Chili Bowl where it is perfectly legal. Could you imagine such an engine in a Bondio car? 400hp weighing in at 200lbs?!?!?

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Larryoracing (Offline)
#34 2/18/08 8:06 PM

Hawker,

Are you sure this V8 is legal at the Chillibowl?

Larry "O":O:

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Redbone (Offline)
#35 2/18/08 8:48 PM

Larry,

The midget V-8's are not only legal at the Chili Bowl, they are also currently legal for USAC at 120CID with a 4-valve OHC configuration. (90 deg. max V)

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Redbone (Offline)
#36 2/18/08 9:01 PM

Originally Posted by Gasman fan 50:
Just an $30,000 or more for an engine!:rolling

Pretty typical of today's midget engine prices.

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Gasman fan 50 (Offline)
#37 2/18/08 10:13 PM

As reading the USAC rule book last week I thought I read no 8 Cylinders are approved?

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Hawker (Offline)
#38 2/18/08 10:20 PM

Originally Posted by Redbone:
Larry,

The midget V-8's are not only legal at the Chili Bowl, they are also currently legal for USAC at 120CID with a 4-valve OHC configuration. (90 deg. max V)

At 170 CID, the H1 would not be legal in USAC. However, the only rules that I know of for the Chili Bowl are USAC body panels........and you can't have a ski for a LF...LMAO....Thanks Andy... There was a Ford SHO V6 (182CID) entered in the Chili Bowl this year and in the previous years there was a Caddilac V6 entered.

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Redbone (Offline)
#39 2/19/08 7:12 AM

Originally Posted by Gasman fan 50:
As reading the USAC rule book last week I thought I read no 8 Cylinders are approved?

The V-8 spec is actually an anomole in the USAC rulebook. When the V-8 stopped showing up at the tracks, USAC basically stopped writing a spec for the motor. I believe Jackie Runyon was one of the last one's running, Mel may also have been running one at the time. Anyone with a legal V-8 could show up and run it in a USAC event under the last printed spec (120 CI).

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Larryoracing (Offline)
#40 2/19/08 3:27 PM

"On to, say, a Suzuki GSX-R1000 now. The engine is a 999cc, four-stroke, liquid-cooled inline-four, and depending on who you talk to (or which motorcycle mag roadtest you choose to believe), it makes anywhere between 165

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