fogey
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Oct 25, 2011 21:32:56 GMT
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Said to be the world’s only NHRA Pro Street Ferrari Real stock Ferrari body and trim Pro built 565/700 HP engine    |
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Last Edit: Oct 25, 2011 21:34:23 GMT by fogey
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Oct 25, 2011 21:42:35 GMT
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Interesting - as that's a 250 GTE, I'm guessing that the original chassis & running gear have been used for a GTO replica?
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Oct 25, 2011 21:59:11 GMT
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I dislike the bonnet scoop but overall am a massive 250 Ferrari fan
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Some days you just need to take a grinder to an inanimate object, just to make your day a tiny bit better!!
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Oct 25, 2011 22:14:34 GMT
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bet thats not aloud at the owners club meetings lol
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Oct 25, 2011 22:47:39 GMT
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I posted this in another thread t'other day, but I like it so there   ;D  This is Bob Norwood's Ferrari 308.  This overpowered brute was originally designed by Bob Norwood for NHRA drag racing. The car ran under the national class record with 7.0’s at 170mph in the quarter mile until its gigantic Vortech-like centrifugal supercharger was outlawed by the NHRA. At this point the car ran a few exhibition drag races and then arrived at Bonneville in 1989 ready to take a massive ram at the world of top-speed racing.
Essentially, the car was a tube frame Ferrari 308 designed for Pro-Stock drag racing and fitted with funnycar-type composite body panels. The rear tires were massive slicks mounted on a narrowed Ford nine-inch rear axle—exactly like present-day Pro-stock drag machines. The transmission was a pressure-shifted Lenco unit with nine-inch gears. The front-mounted powerplant was an evil-looking thing surely smuggled into Texas directly from Hell you might guess ran on Plutonium waste or Di-lithium crystals or something much worse. Actually, the 308’s engine ran on 120-octane super-premium race gasoline and was based on a Flat-12 Ferrari Boxer block fitted with 4-valve Testarossa heads, topped with a beautifully sculpted and truly massive air-water intercooler mounted directly on top of the block. The intercooler featured 12 super-high-flow electronic injectors spraying furiously into velocity stacks integral to the intercooler. The massive intercooler unit bolted directly to the heads and functioned as a combination intake plenum/intercooler/fuel rail/manifold unit.
The centrifugal blower—salvaged from a gigantic British locomotive engine that apparently no longer Thought It Could—was driven by a 1.5-inch shaft that traversed the length of the engine and was driven off the flywheel via a reversed Allison turbine helicopter gear-reduction unit originally designed to step down turbine velocities to something the main rotor could handle. The FAA required this type of gear reduction to be replaced after even a single emergency auto-rotation power-off landing, guaranteeing availability at fire-sale prices. The blower, looking like a hugely-overgrown Vortech blower sent back in time by The Machines to destroy all human life in 1989, had a five-inch impeller that was capable of gobbling air at the rate of something like 500 pounds per minute, a rate that could probably suck the air out of double-wide in less than 60 seconds!
The supercharged 12-cylinder Boxer engine, featuring a lightened flywheel and knife-edged crank, and could rev from the engine’s 1200 RPM idle to the 9K redline in just over a tenth of a second, and had been certified on a Superflow 901 engine dyno to make 1400 horsepower on 120-octane gasoline at 60psi boost. The short-stroke 3.2-inch bore engine was upgraded with a billet Crower crankshaft, extra-long Crower rods, custom forged pistons, and was managed by a Haltech F3 EFI controller and a Firepower direct-fire 12-coil ignition. According to Norwood, each 24-valve head was carefully flowed and mildly ported for optimum forced breathing.
In 1989, the flat-12 308 arrived out west in time to make a few runs in Land Speed Record country with Greg Johnson at the wheel. However, before the car got a chance to break the 223 mph record for 5.0L and less blown modified sports cars (1400 horsepower should’ve made this look easy, assuming the car hadn’t already entered a low earth orbit) the event was rained out.
“This may have been a good thing,” allows Norwood.1400bhp in 1989  ;D Via here |
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Last Edit: Oct 25, 2011 22:48:11 GMT by Rich606
1989 Peugeot 205. You know, the one that was parked in a ditch on the campsite at RRG'17... the glass is always full. but the ratio of air to water may vary. |
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stealthstylz
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Both awesome cars, the 250 is a stunner though.
Matt
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Seth
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Interesting - as that's a 250 GTE, I'm guessing that the original chassis & running gear have been used for a GTO replica? Looks like that body's been kept standard enough to go back on a Ferrari chassis one day too Very cool.  |
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Follow your dreams or you might as well be a vegetable. |
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10mpg
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Whilst it's undoubtedly very cool, all i think when i look at it it how beautiful that Ferrari body is despite all the ad ons and mods..
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The Internet, like all tools, if used improperly, can make a complete bo**cks of even the simplest jobs...
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Oct 26, 2011 16:58:56 GMT
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Thats great.
Are those Ferraris separate chassis then?
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Oct 26, 2011 17:22:55 GMT
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Thats great. Are those Ferraris separate chassis then? yes most are not sure about the 250's but most are a back bone type chassis or tub type not the best quality chassis either certainly for the money they cost |
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