Mike8675309
Registered User
I found a new issue of Car Craft in my mail box today and as I was paging through it I found an article about a build up of a Brodix 540 cubic inch motor. It made 630hp and 630ft/lbs an an engine dyno. total cost of the build was around $16,000.
If you look at at the Shootout results (http://www.sccoa.com/forums/showthread.php?t=116826) we have stock V6 SC blocks with SC heads (some even with SC intake manifolds) hitting nearly the same if not BETTER numbers than that at the REAR WHEELS!
I don't know how much SC folks are spending on these motors, but I'm pretty sure it isn't $16,000. If it isn't clear I want to make sure those people responsible for pushing the limits of these motors know that I greatly appreciate their work. Those that work on the cars, develop the parts, and pay for the cars to be worked on and the parts to be developed.
The SC powertrain has come so far that we now have folks arguing about if they would dare to let their care go faster than 11.5 because they don't want to put a cage in the car. Some of those very people, and others just a few years ago were hoping to just break into the low 12's, now their worried about low 11's.
It is amazing how far we've come and really begs to wonder, how far can we go? Considering all the misc small issues people ran into this year, I expect 2011 will be a shakedown year for the SC crowd and we'll see even more high powered cars that can hang in stop and go traffic with the best of them.
If you look at at the Shootout results (http://www.sccoa.com/forums/showthread.php?t=116826) we have stock V6 SC blocks with SC heads (some even with SC intake manifolds) hitting nearly the same if not BETTER numbers than that at the REAR WHEELS!
I don't know how much SC folks are spending on these motors, but I'm pretty sure it isn't $16,000. If it isn't clear I want to make sure those people responsible for pushing the limits of these motors know that I greatly appreciate their work. Those that work on the cars, develop the parts, and pay for the cars to be worked on and the parts to be developed.
The SC powertrain has come so far that we now have folks arguing about if they would dare to let their care go faster than 11.5 because they don't want to put a cage in the car. Some of those very people, and others just a few years ago were hoping to just break into the low 12's, now their worried about low 11's.
It is amazing how far we've come and really begs to wonder, how far can we go? Considering all the misc small issues people ran into this year, I expect 2011 will be a shakedown year for the SC crowd and we'll see even more high powered cars that can hang in stop and go traffic with the best of them.