New Stinger Performance Project "Car"

[Stinger]

As some of you already know, I bought a dragster yesterday. Hopefully I can answer most of the questions here. First some pics:
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Specs:
167" wheelbase
Built by a professional race shop
Chrome Moly tubing chassis
Raced in several different ET classes in North
Race weight is ~1000lbs
Engine is a 2.0L turbo running 22psi.
Transmission: Doug Nash 5 speed, air shifted
Rear End: Shortened Ford 9"
Engine specs:
10.5:1 compression
Aluminum Rods
Draw-thru carb
Runs on race gas (130 octane), not alky.
Professionally Ported Head/Oversize SS valves/Comp Cam...supposedly the exact same head porting, cam, etc. as Buddy Engersol ran in his 2.0 turbo motors...this guy acted like he knew Buddy pretty well.

His spare engine and all spare parts are included with the car.

The dragster ran the 1/4 mile in the high 9 second range at 140+mph. It has not been raced for 4 years.

Using the horsepower calculators, it seems it only takes about 200hp to go high 9's at 1000lbs. That means it either weighs more than a grand, they ran it real easy, or the engines don't run as they should.

I plan to pull the carbed 2.0 out and replace it with a 2.3 EFI turbo motor for various reasons. Mainly because I'm familiar with them, I have tons of parts for them, they are dirt cheap to replace, run on pump gas, and I know much more about EFI than carbs. The other bonus is at the power levels required to haul ass in this thing, the EFI motors are dead reliable.

I plan to intercool it once the 2.3 goes in, otherwise it will be a simple bolt-on 2.3 engine for now. Ported head, big cam, etc. will follow depending on performance of the bolt-on engine.

The first things I'll need to do once I get it home is to buy new safety equipement (belts, etc.) and then see what it takes to get it re-certified. Once the car is certified, I'll have to take a physical and then make some shakedown runs before I can get licensed to drive it. I also plan to weigh it as soon as I can so I can figure out how much power I actually need to make to run the speeds I'd like to run.

I won't be able to pick it up until I return from my West Coast vacation on August 7th. Then there will be some updates...

 

[Dan P.]

Looks bad ass Stinger Man if you put a 2.3T in there that thing will be a rocket with wheels.

 

[88stangmangt]

hmmmm looks like a awesome new project.

 

[351wcoupe]

WORLD'S FASTEST JUNKYARD ENGINE!!!!

You need to be looking for a driver for that thing.....somebody stupid enough to not let go of the throttle....

We could do it like "Cool Runnings" where we both ride.
"Feel the rythme"
"Feel the ryhme"
"Get on up, Its rail car time!!!!"

 

[Shawneebear93]

We could do it like "Cool Runnings" where we both ride.
"Feel the rythme"
"Feel the ryhme"
"Get on up, Its rail car time!!!!"

Sweet deal Stinger. And forgive me, but what does "air shifted" mean???

 

[Stinger]

It means you don't have to clutch it to shift...just either push a button or just slam the lever to go to the next gear...

 

[65ShelbyClone]

Dooooood! I'd like some pictures of that shifter on the trans!

Jeez, 22psi getting squeezed by 10.5:1 and no I/C? On methanol I could understand, but gasoline? I think you'll be more than 9 second capable with just a stout EFI 2.3.

 

[Stinger]

The shifter doesn't make it able to be air shifted...it's not a T5 trans or anything, it's a full on race trans...the shifter is nothing more than a standard looking lever.

 

[65ShelbyClone]

Right, I just haven't seen a detail shot of one. Is it a vertical pattern?

 

[351wcoupe]

It uses an inline gate shift pattern instead of the H pattern we see.

 

[Shinlee]

sooooo.....whats the progress of this project, im getting kinda antsy, any thing done to it yet? engine stripped or anything of that sort?

 

[Stinger]

I just went and picked it up...got home last night. I was on vacation last week, hence the delay.

Updates to come...

 

[351wcoupe]

instead of updates to come
I'd say timeslips to come.

 

[Shinlee]

agree'd. hurry up and get it done >< lol

 

[rd]

I am seriously jealous!

I want one!

If you don't mind, do you have a regular racing plan in mind? Local bracket series, or index classes?

These look like once you get one, they are less costly and easier to keep up than a door car.

Keep us posted.

 

[65ShelbyClone]

I just noticed something.......is the turbine housing a .63, .82, or a tangential T4? It looks awful big for a 2.0. I dunno, my only .60/.63 T3 in under the intercooler on my SVO(hard to see).

 

[Stinger]

Turbine housing as a full T4 style .96 a/r housing. It's not just any ol' 2.0 though...it's fully ported, huge cam, 10.5:1 compression, and spins 13,500 rpm

Here are about 45 pics of it now that I've got it home: http://s114.photobucket.com/albums/n266/yellow_stinger/Dragster/

 

[Shinlee]

ty for update, now make it go vroom

 

[65ShelbyClone]

Turbine housing as a full T4 style .96 a/r housing. It's not just any ol' 2.0 though...it's fully ported, huge cam, 10.5:1 compression, and spins 13,500 rpm

'Splains that then. I would have expected lower than 9s for that much boost on that much engine. Then again, no I/C on 22psi can't be doing much for the charge density.

13,500? For real?

 

[351wcoupe]

Somebody look in jegs and check out how hard it is to find a tach that goes up that far.