[DeTomaso] Flat crank V8

[Mad Dog Antenucci]

Bonneville is a drag race on salt ;-)
Actually Bonneville is harder IMHO then a drag race because its harder to lock up the tires at speed...Just ask Al, Mike Cook, the Pope or the Swedes who all ran Bonneville. It looks allot easier then it really is. Half the time the salt is bad so its a labor of love.

 
Mad Dawg Antenucci 
Team Pantera Racing 
The 1st & still the only vintage race team in open road racing 
www.teampanteraracing.com




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From: "jderyke at aol.com" <jderyke at aol.com>
To: boyd411 at gmail.com; detomaso at realbig.com
Sent: Wed, January 13, 2010 11:03:24 AM
Subject: Re: [DeTomaso] Flat crank V8

The 299 cube overbored & destroked Boss 302 (4.125"x 2.8") that Al 
Bloomberg used at Bonneville was pretty dependable up to 8000, until he went briefly 
to 9000. Then he pitched an expensive steel rod thru the oil pan. But you 
gotta start with strong components: see past POCA newsletters that showed 
stock 5-liter blocks splitting like firewood down the lifter valley and Bob 
Bensen's 5-l crate engine block that blew the rear main support completely off 
the block along with #5 crank journal. 351C blocks have a weak spot in the 
sculpturing above the crank journals that lets them split apart horizontally 
at very high rpms. Note this leaves the main cap bolts nicely torqued as the 
crank lays on the pavement... 
Most very high-revving engines are built for drag racing; hardly the 
Pantera's forte. If I was going to build such an engine, the first thing I'd buy 
would be an aftermarket iron cylinder block and the second would be a steel 
crank and hi-dollar rod set. NASCAR short-track manages to run 8500-9500 for 
seconds at a time, all day long but those are $60,000 motors. Good luck- J 
Deryke
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