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.

[ChrisFoley]

Thanks for the support guys, and special thanks to John, Scott and Greg for stopping by.
I'm well on the way to having the old engine back in, while Pete gets his beauty sleep.
I won't be as fast but in the rain I'll do just fine.
As far as going with less power for more reliability, I already have one of those. We're trying to make our way to the front of the pack and the new engine will put us pretty close. I just have to control more parameters more tightly, and learn to trust my experts. As the three of us (Chris, Jake, Len) get more comfortable with working to each others' strengths I am confident the Tangerine Racing team with Aircooled Technology and Hoffman Automotive Machine support will make big waves in F Production. Len's heads are a thing to behold, Jake's engine building and dyno expertise is truly impressive, and the new Tangerine Evo Header was a key factor in surpassing our 175 hp goal. (We actually hit that on the first pull to 7000 rpm on the dyno.)
I was near tears for a while this afternoon, as I am sure both Len and Jake were too. In fact Jake had it out (verbally) with a smart aleck neighbor in the paddock. (IMG:http://www.914world.com/bbs2/html/emoticons/chair.gif)
Unfortunately Len is the one who will have to do the hardest work as the heads took the big hit this time.
If racing was easy though, we wouldn't bother doing it. (IMG:http://www.914world.com/bbs2/html/emoticons/wacko.gif)
Now it's back to work...