Twin Engine Canadian GTP
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This thing screams. James you guys gotta get the 442 finished! 
Its cool guys James/AL are building 3, 9 second cars before they runs 12's.
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Its cool guys James/AL are building a 9 second car before it runs 12's.
well we thought about throwing both power trains in there to run some numbers but we started thinking about safety and the fact Al's wife will kill me if he dies in the 442.
we decided to go ahead and make sure if that we had a solid foundation for the next 20-30 years.
when the car is all done and makes 1200 horsepower and all-wheel-drive.... it will still be one third the cost of a GTR
Hehehe, finish the damn thing I hope I lit a fire under your ass !
I'm not very patient so that Twin engine was really built in about 3 weeks total. Counting taking the parts from the donor.
But it was spread out over a year because of lack of time.
Most of the time we were 2-3 guys in the project at the shop.
It is definately everything I wanted and more. It is only runniung 60% power right now. Low boost at the back and S/C in front. It will be turbo soon and the crappy sound you hear is mostly coming from the S/C exhaust. once turbo it will be a lot more quiet and sound more like a Grand National with two engines in it.
The AWD will make the car extremely fun to race at street events when there is no glue or at night. The tracks in my area have really poor prep so AWD is needed on off days.
It's making 700HP or so right now and will be bumped to 800HP for the 1st test run at the track next weekend. Biggest worry for me is stopping at the end of the track. Because of the slicks and ET street tire I can't go too big on the brakes. THe car weighs 4500lbs ! so it's not going to be easy to slow down with the short and rough shutdowns we have to deal with here.
I'm not very patient so that Twin engine was really built in about 3 weeks total. Counting taking the parts from the donor.
But it was spread out over a year because of lack of time.
Most of the time we were 2-3 guys in the project at the shop.
It is definately everything I wanted and more. It is only runniung 60% power right now. Low boost at the back and S/C in front. It will be turbo soon and the crappy sound you hear is mostly coming from the S/C exhaust. once turbo it will be a lot more quiet and sound more like a Grand National with two engines in it.
The AWD will make the car extremely fun to race at street events when there is no glue or at night. The tracks in my area have really poor prep so AWD is needed on off days.
It's making 700HP or so right now and will be bumped to 800HP for the 1st test run at the track next weekend. Biggest worry for me is stopping at the end of the track. Because of the slicks and ET street tire I can't go too big on the brakes. THe car weighs 4500lbs ! so it's not going to be easy to slow down with the short and rough shutdowns we have to deal with here.
Get some race pads for it, that will solve your problem right there. I would only get them for the front though, you probably don't want that much brake in the rear. When a friend of mine built his twin engine talon it took some time to get the rear bias right at the perfect spot. Being that they're front brakes in the back the first few passes were
no kidding, but if you barely lock em with street rubber, then slicks/etc will be even less likely to lockup....proper driving means you dont jab the brake anyways...its horrible to suddenly upset any chassis with a sharp change...means your likely to break traction...whether in the twisties or the straight and narrow
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