i know i'm going to get shot down but it might be time to get new blood into the sport i've built two ford rear ends to install behind honda engines in ot cars one hooked to a powerglide and the other a manual trans. a small fed with one of the newer 2l motors might catch on
In 1975 the NHRA started a class ....... c/ed ........c econo dragster. Bill Mitchell of Motion Performance and I built a rear engine car that weighed 760 pounds with me in it. It won the best engineered car at the 1975 U.S. Nationals ........... with a 111 cubic inch VW .......... it's best was 9.91 @ 134 mph.............. none of my pictures are digital so I can't show the car................tp
S Sounds interesting! There is or was a Honda 2L powered Bantam Altered running in NHRA Competition Eliminator (H-EA class) Honda K20A2 engine. I believe it is a very high tech engine. Regards from KangaRod
Josh Lee is running low 9's with the Honda. Clint Neff is running mid 7's with a 254 CID Mercruiser 4 cyl.
Interesting little thread These photos are from Australia - the current issue of Australian Street Rodding. The cars were raced in the 60's & the engine is just local some tom-foolery!
VW powered Fiats were a popular combination in the 1970's. Then there was the Gary Berg '67 Bug that was his daily driver back then, and ran mid-12's... pretty amazing stuff in those days!
They are 3 x active volcanoes. Waiouru military base is on the desert road in the centre of the North Island. Here's the same mountains from the other side. [August is the coldest month there] This photo was taken at midday, I had breakfast at the beach that same morning
If the fuzzies in my head haven't misinterpreted what I saw at one of the Father's Day Roadster Shows in the last century, Donovan offered his version of an A?B? full aluminum four banger block that used a billet crank Chevrolet rods and Forged pistons that was a full oiler. He called it a "D" block that could use the Flathead banger configuration, and offered plugs in order to run any of the OHV aftermarket set-ups. The gentleman I spoke with one in his ride and had driven there on the Freeway and kept up with the overzealous drivers who control the speeds above the posted limit. I liked what I saw and still have the giveaway sheet on the specs in my files, somewhere. Trouble was, as he mentioned none of the sanctioning bodies such as the SCTA approved of such a forward thinking solution, so it limited the sales options to those wanting to build up unique stock/but not stock rides. It was pricey, yes, but a bolt in look-a-like that would have been right at home in a quasi restoration. I thought it make a nice daily driver in an "A" pickup. But, I think a lot of stuff is neato that when you budget it turns out to be pricey.
https://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum...ver-in-rodders-journal.1203814/#post-13731115 Hello, Thanks to @DRERACECAR I now have the correct information that has been lacking in my 4 cylinder dragster film clip that I took in 1958-59. Despite all of the notoriety of the top gas and fuel eliminator classes, these little guys (as we called them) put on a show that was great. In the Drag News results pages from almost every dragstrip in the USA reporting a similar class for 4 cylinder dragsters. Jnaki 1320 RECORD HOLDERS IN THE FOUR CYLINDER CLASS 4 CYLINDER RACING CLASS The B&B Lumber Co. was in this video. It may have been the “smoky one”… Anyone have ID proof?
I think someone making a rear engine dragster chassis that would let you drop a Honda FWD engine/suspension cradle in would have a market.
Hello, Sorry, I forgot to include the 4 cylinder film with the new title for Kent Baber. thanks @dreracecar KENT BABER https://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum...ver-in-rodders-journal.1203814/#post-13732214 It was prominent in the "Ghost of Drag Strip Hollow", along side of Tommy Ivo's T-Roadster and other hot rods. Jnaki Now, on to the next short film clip with some good looking roadsters and unknown names.
Bill Sanders at Santa Ana, early '50s. It ran a Cragar 4, later replaced by a flathead. It used a Willys hood for a nose, R&C photo 4-cylinder against a flathead, Saugus, early '50s...apparently helmets were optional and roll bars for decoration.
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