If anybody puts that engine in a soccer mom Volvo I will loose fait in ummanity! This kind of engine belongs in a real car like a Chevell or a 60's Camaro or even an S-10. No swedish crap could handle that manly muscle! It would be like building a Go Kart with a GSX-R engine out of a fridge cardboard box!
I can see how that accident happened...it is very important to get the power down coming out of 8, since 9 is just shy of flat out...but there is very little runoff (about 3 ft) on the outside of 8...so a little too much gas, and an attempted steering correction puts you right in the blue guardrail
@CTS-V: Idiots are the ones who pay lots of money for fast cars who never use them. Much respect from me, I've spun my car many times on the track because I actually push it to it's limits
Glickenhaus can have his shmancy pretend race car. This guy RULES in my book.
"Oh, that ZR1? I crashed it. But here's a new one!"
THAT'S the life I want to live. And I realize it would probably be a short life.
Also, Ben, this line is incredible: "Asking a tipster for details on a race car is like asking for directions while your wife and her mother and her father are in the car." Ha!
Wait wait wait... this guy is driving a RACE PREPPED and TUNED ZR1 and he is going to race schools trying to get his NASA license!?!?! (no offense to NASA I have a lot of friends who run awesome cars with them) Sounds to me like this accident is just too much much car for too little skill. (No offense intended) But try something along the lines of a Miata or at least a regular Corvette before jumping into something that would be illegal in any other sanctioning body.
@BigEngineSmallCar: The tipster misunderstood. They meant the NASA engineerd worked for before they fired his ass. The one with the big pointy explody things that make a lot of noise and bring me my high-def TV from space.
@Deartháir II: The Return: That under funded government agency? Ah yes I know them! They get singled out because their name has 4 letters instead of 3 and the 3 lettered agencies are jealous!
@uncleben: I can't see any further qualifications being needed. I mean, hell, I've rebuilt enough SBC's in my time, a ZR1 engine can't be any different, can it?
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Enjoy this supercharged big-block in a lovely... Volvo station wagon.
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Re-entry's a bitch.
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Skip to 8:45 for the track re-entry fail.
10/07/09
That Vette driver was taking more different lines than Wall Street in the '80s. I can't say I'm surprised he stuffed it.
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"Oh, that ZR1? I crashed it. But here's a new one!"
THAT'S the life I want to live. And I realize it would probably be a short life.
Also, Ben, this line is incredible: "Asking a tipster for details on a race car is like asking for directions while your wife and her mother and her father are in the car." Ha!
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Okay, not really nicely, but with a bit of work...
A bit of work with a sawzall, a plasma cutter, a few different welders, a sledgehammer, and some KY Jelly. But it would all be worth it.
And no, Ben, it can't go in the Continental. That's sacrilege. That needs the new Coyote or Roadrunner engine.
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It is pretty sad that it had to happen on his first "competitive" race but hey he's going to get another so it's not so bad.
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it's = it is
its = possessive
In its class.