Haha yeah, murder on tooling. “OMG, why is this so expensive?”

*Points to pile of dead and dull cutting supplies*

I work in race shop, inconel parts make me all weak in the knees.

When we went to PRI and they had all the titanium bits they’d made w/ additive machining, I just lamented at the fact that 1) That’s way out of the league of what we’re doing.  2) That part I was holding was worth more than my year’s salary.

You know what I LOVE about car shows in the US? THE MUSIC TURNED UP TO 11 AND THEN BREAK THE KNOB OFF SO ANYBODY CLOSE BY LEAVES THE SHOW WITH A MIGRAINE, AND YOU HAVE TO YELL AT EVERYBODY.

There. I said it.

Had fun shooting this one that we modded. Looking forward to some of the Charger rumors to finally coalesce into something tangible.

Just imagine what would happen next time his regular caddy couldn’t make it.

It would be sweet to see any replacement caddy tell him to pound sand so he’d have to cart his shit on his own.

I agree, I haven’t thought of the Chiron all that much but DAMN this thing just works.

A circumcised shifter is easier to clean, and the exposed linkage on some vehicles is even more appealing to the eye.

Only takeaway I had from it was the travesty of the paint finish on that Caddy. Somebody needs to fire their detailer, or hire a good one at least. There’s no excuse for that beautiful black paint to look that way.  Holigrams, swirl marks, and oxidation all over :(

What’s really fun is on our racecars we build, there’s a warmup strategy, so until you hit that operating temp, there’s some things you absolutely cannot do.

We’ve got this Viper that did close to 1800whp on our dyno, but capable of around 3000 (we don’t have a mainline hub dyno yet), and until it is up to operating…

Yeah, I remember reading one Ferrari had a laundry list of engines in it to keep it competitive HP wise as the chassis was fucking amazing, just kept needing more power.

It’s an interesting question of what era you want to restore the car to as well. Original off the showroom or original as in “Winningest season.”

The dune buggy thing will be interesting. Here in Texas there’s a strong opposition to dune buggies, sandrails and kit cars. People have had issues even registering their Exocets for street use.

It all comes down to the TX legislature and other policy makers having their nuts/tits in a vice by the Texas Automotive…

So glorious that this is one of the first comments.

...people can “win” but still actually be “losers”.

Yup, and he wants to go faster :)

He couldn’t get out of the car after this run, there’s a longer video that has after the run commentary. Big, big adrenaline rush so his legs were just shaking, and he could tell the car was really making some steam that time around.

Yeah, the Blocks will more than likely see changes after a certain power point.  The turbo will of course need to be changed, that thing will probably tap out in short order.

Same.  GM is doing it on the LT4/LT5, and Ford with the current gen Coyote.

Yeah, we managed 1400+whp out of a C7 Stingray, but we sprayed a fuckload of nitrous and oversized fuel jets to compensate for the lack of fuel capacity at that level lol.

That’s the question some shop will more than likely find out lol.

If it’s on E85, it’ll make some damned good power, the rods and bearings would take a hit from the cylinder pressure of course but if it is factory forged, 800wheel shouldn’t be unheard of.

The transmission will be the weak spot.

I work in a shop that does performance stuff on GM cars.  So to make any real impressive power, a port injection setup is the go-to option from the start instead of trying to stretch the GDI system.

Waiting patiently for a shop to run a secondary port injection system to overcome the limits of the GDI setup, and run a bigger turbo.

I have a feeling somebody will be pushing this to 1000whp in a hurried manner.