RCR's new car..962
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First I would like to say Greetings to every one on the GT40 Forum.
My name is Perry and I am a car enthusiast/fabricator/engine builder.
Fran it was nice speaking with you the other day about my choices for a high HP trans-axle. I was planning to purchase a SL-C coupe very soon and I saw this thread.
Fran I have to say, this 962 replica you made is the "bomb".
If you need at least 5 to get a DOT windshield made, you can put me down for one so that's four more.
The 962 has been my favorite car and my Windows desktop background for a long time.
This particular image:
Dauer 962 LeMans Car Pictures and Wallpapers [519]
GM V8's, especially LS motors can be made to sound incredible. They are already proven as far as power and reliability is concerned. Plus you can't beat the $$ per HP.
Here is my 920HP Vette with pump gas and a LS402 I built with 15psi.
YouTube - DPE corvettes.com - Supercharged corvette C6 vert 920hp
The Vette weighs in at 3550 lbs.
Imagine this sound/power in the 2300 lb. 962 or the SL-C Fran designed with the boost bumped up to 21psi @ 1200 HP on 93 pump gas.
I'm building a Billet LS427 capable of 8500rpm and 2500HP for my SL-C unless we get enough people together to have a DOT windshield made for Fran's 962 Kit.
Here are my parts for the motor ?
They are in my dining room !! Can you tell I'm single ? LOL
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My name is Perry and I am a car enthusiast/fabricator/engine builder.
Fran it was nice speaking with you the other day about my choices for a high HP trans-axle. I was planning to purchase a SL-C coupe very soon and I saw this thread.
Fran I have to say, this 962 replica you made is the "bomb".
If you need at least 5 to get a DOT windshield made, you can put me down for one so that's four more.
The 962 has been my favorite car and my Windows desktop background for a long time.
This particular image:
Dauer 962 LeMans Car Pictures and Wallpapers [519]
GM V8's, especially LS motors can be made to sound incredible. They are already proven as far as power and reliability is concerned. Plus you can't beat the $$ per HP.
Here is my 920HP Vette with pump gas and a LS402 I built with 15psi.
YouTube - DPE corvettes.com - Supercharged corvette C6 vert 920hp
The Vette weighs in at 3550 lbs.
Imagine this sound/power in the 2300 lb. 962 or the SL-C Fran designed with the boost bumped up to 21psi @ 1200 HP on 93 pump gas.
I'm building a Billet LS427 capable of 8500rpm and 2500HP for my SL-C unless we get enough people together to have a DOT windshield made for Fran's 962 Kit.
Here are my parts for the motor ?
They are in my dining room !! Can you tell I'm single ? LOL
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I saw the video and.. wow! That engine seems to make a ton of torque. Do you have a dyno sheet of this engine? I would love to see what the curve looks like. I was under the impression that those centrifugal type superchargers could be very peaky like turbos, but this doesn't seem that way.
This one ?
YouTube - Matra V12
great sound, but a fit to a 962 ??? Would be of like a V8 as well, so finally i think its a desicion about "bang for bucks" and there is nothing to beat a US V8 on that scale.
TOM
I know a H16 engine is pie in the sky, but while we are on the topic of engine sounds for the moment, i think this is the best sounding engine of all time:
YouTube - The Sound of BRM
YouTube - The Sound of BRM
Dr. David
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Just a note related to the previous windshield considerations. Don't ignore the wiper arm and blade! That windshield has an excessive curvature, and will require a special wiper blade to make the curve, but avoid a collapse that scratches the glass. A similar problem surfaced on the Ultima GTR which reqired an excellent-engineered aftermarket replacement. I have never actually used mine, as I don't drive mine in the rain, but it it makes it legal, and it seems like a real issue on that type of windscreen.
David
David
David,
You don't drive that Ultima FLAT OUT..over 200 MPH, at night..in the rain?
RM
You don't drive that Ultima FLAT OUT..over 200 MPH, at night..in the rain?
RM
I drive FLAT OUT...all the time. It's how I drive. I hate when those driving anything other than exotic one-offs like mine clog the line and I'm forced to hold back my multi-hundred thousand dollar machine, because it's built to be driven FLAT OUT. The track is meant to be taken FLAT OUT in a fine machine like mine, because that's what it was built for...expensive, rare, collector exotics to be driven FLAT OUT by people who know how to drive. Like me. If that means I must drive in the rain, at night, so much the better, as I can show off my finely honed driving skills to mere mortals...FLAT OUT.
RJ,
that video gets a lot of mileage! Every time I see it or her it, makes me laugh for 10 minutes! thanks for the big laugh!
Richard
that video gets a lot of mileage! Every time I see it or her it, makes me laugh for 10 minutes! thanks for the big laugh!
Richard
Of course not, he is a track-nazi, prancing about with his souped up Miata that has a V8 and turbocharger, carbon-fiber F1 brakes and ground effect aerodynamic aids to stay stuck on the bumper of my uber-exotic 1 of 4 Porsche GT3R...I think he is jealous because I didn't offer him any Fiji water in my custom track-day car-hauler/race quarters...
"I don't care what you've done on your Play Station or Xbox. There's no way I'm gonna let you shake hands with a guardrail at a buck seventy five so your car can be opened up like a tray of JIFFY POP!"
I love that part...
Hopefully you guys clicked on the sequel? It's even better."I don't care what you've done on your Play Station or Xbox. There's no way I'm gonna let you shake hands with a guardrail at a buck seventy five so your car can be opened up like a tray of JIFFY POP!"
I love that part...
Where does one find these videos? Sounds like fun, but I think I'm missing the important bits.
