1700hp twin turbo Dodge Viper

you notice he isnt even trying the tree??? its green for a while befor launch...impressive beast but she is alllllllll over the track
 
That thing is bad ass. The driver was really bumping against the rev limiter on launch and taking a long nap off the line :huh:
 
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More info on the car here.
 
He's not sleeping at the tree-he's disregarding it in favor of building boost. The best short time he got out of the timeslips they showed was a 1.36, which is coincidently the same as the best short time my mustang has produced. The difference is, in my case that part of the pass is the hardest acceleration the car produces, and you can actually see the viper pull harder a hundred feet or so out when the turbos REALLY spool up. Thus, his car runs almost 30 mph faster and almost a second quicker than mine did. NO comparison at all in power between the two. To make the difference even bigger, his car is MUCH heavier than mine.

What I'm getting at is that pulling that kind of short time isn't exactly easy, but it isn't TERRIBLY difficult either. My car has some really good suspension stuff on it, but it's all stock replacement-you could directly bolt it to a stock car, without out other modifications.

When he gets the car tuned, and gets some more chassis work (like a cage), I predict that the car will run some 1.2-something short times. I'll quite possibly never have anything that will run as hard as that car will end up running, that's for sure.
 
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What kind of car do you have running in the 9's? All I've seen you post about is the adventures with your truck :D
 
I have a '91 mustang. I'm not a ford guy, but I got a deal on it I couldn't refuse. When it ran those times, it had a windsor 393 stroker motor/c4 and a 200 shot on it. It was a really good combo for what it was-perfectly happy on pump gas when not spraying (I actually jetted it down to 150 hp and ran a 10.14 on straight 93 octane once), and was a decent street car. Power windows and locks still work, cheap cd player in it, etc.

It didn't break anything chronically, and would start and drive around town fine. Eventually, the 393 started losing oil pressure. What I thought was that the block had cracked from the main saddles up toward the valley, which is how stock ford smallblocks generally fail from high power. I figured it was bleeding oil pressure off from the mains through a crack. What actually happened was that it had simply beaten the main and rod bearings to death. No copper showing, but just worn out. I figured that was a good time to pull and sell the ford motor, and put a 440 in there. So, that's what I'm doing. It ought to go at least some mid 9's with the 440. It's gonna be a fairly basic combo-stage VI heads worked a little bit by Dwayne Porter, solid cam, cat rods, ross 10.5:1 flattops, stock block.
 
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v8440 said:
What I thought was that the block had cracked from the main saddles up toward the valley, which is how stock ford smallblocks generally fail from high power.
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I've seen pictures of that said problem cracking blocks right in half. Pretty crazy. That should be a different car for sure when you're done. Should outta piss off the blue oval boys nicely :D You should start up a progress post in the proper section about that. I'd be interested in seeing how you're making a Mopar engine fit into that car.
 
I've actually been theoretically working on this for almost a year if not more. Partly laziness, partly the summer heat here, and partly often being gone pulling fema trailers has caused me to not touch it for months. I have to make an oilpan for it, which is probably a little over half done. I'll have to post some pics of the pan-I think it'll work ok. The funny part is that for sheetmetal, I've used parts of a late 60's/early 70's chevy truck front fender. I'm using a motor plate to mount the front of the engine, and a 727 with a transbrake is going behind it. The suspension should already be up to the task, as well as the rearend. It has an 8.8 with good axles, a c clip eliminator kit, and a full spool. It has 4.10's in it now, but I'm gonna put the 3.55's back in, since it won't need all that torque multiplication with the 440 and a bunch of nitrous. I figure I'll eventually work up to about a 300 shot, but that's far off in the future. Getting it together with not much money and other projects is the hard part.
 
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You should start up a progress post in the proper section about that. I'd be interested in seeing how you're making a Mopar engine fit into that car.
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Agreed. I also would find that interesting, we have a wrecked 'stang at the shop that would make a fine candidate for such a swap, actually I was thinking of putting a 360 in it....mostly to piss off the local Ford guys. :D
 
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