Tangerine Racing in the house!, Chris arrived at 1Am..... Options

[Jake Raby]

The Tangerine crew pulled in to the shop at around 1Am this morning....

Chris has come down to install his new F Production RAT engine with HAm heads that are VERY insane! We are finishing up the engine today and it should be on the dyno tonight and tested tomorrow. We plan on doing some extensive testing with this engine to scrounge every bit of power it possibly has out of it. I plan on doing some carb and velocity stack swaps, venturi swaps and we are even going to do some DTM testing with it Vs Chris' modified corvair fan arrangement both for power as well as running temp comparisons.

This is actually the least developed engine that we will be building Chris as it is the "Regular Season engine". It is still a very nasty animal that will make gobs of power, but since it's a regular season engine it also has to be much more longevity filled and therfore not as many risks can be taken with its tolerances.

The "Runoffs engine" is a different story. It only has to live for two hours for one weekend of racing so it will have every trick known to man and even crazier HAM heads.

With Chris' excellent driving skills and a pair of RAT engines with Len doing things to the heads that have never been done before to this level it is our goal to get a 914 on the podium at the runoffs and thats something that hasn't happened in about 20 years!

If anyone wants to come out to Atlanta this weekend send me an email to boss@aircooledtechnology.com and I'll tell you where we are going to be so we can meet.

[Brett W]

I am by no means trying to downplay Jake's results. 186 will be very hard to beat. Chris should have a good run at it.

After seeing the six get the increase in venturi size Ihave started looking at the six for a possible contender. If the heads will flow I think a 2.0 six could easily make 225.

As much as we all love to brag about big HP numbers we all know they should not be the end goal. Last time I checked they don't have dyno races for championships. If I had 160hp and still ran a faster lap time would that be an issue? Transient response is where winners are made.