THE STINGER alive again

Post by **joerg** » Sat Sep 04, 2010 1:16 pm

After almost 3 month Doc Stinger´s Drag Racing Team proudly announces that "The Stinger" is alive again. In the last race we competed in we had a real bad backfire coused by the failure of our self build blower manifold. The backfire destroyed the manifold, all the intake valves and most severe the valve seats in the cylinder heads. Due to financial and time reasons it took us until yesterday to get all the parts together. Overall damage cost was 5000USD for 16 brandnew valves with springs and everything, repairs done to the head, and a Indy intake manifold we ordered at Koffel´s. We finished the car a few hours ago and started it for the first time in 3 month.

That means we will make it to the season closer at Meidl Airport in Hungary this year

str3atwarrior · Post by **str3atwarrior** » Sat Sep 04, 2010 1:23 pm

This looks good!

JK · Post by JK » Sat Sep 04, 2010 1:51 pm

thats the real deal.... looks like 80-100 spent on that one...

to rich for my blood

Post by **ttocs** » Sat Sep 04, 2010 1:56 pm

man that must be wicked across the pond with that thing, it sounds evil as fuck

!

Post by **joerg** » Sat Sep 04, 2010 1:59 pm

40bucks spent on every horse

And it does throw 1500 of them onto the ground when taking off

JK · Post by JK » Sat Sep 04, 2010 2:21 pm

well! thats 60.. theres gota be more than that in it

Post by **joerg** » Sat Sep 04, 2010 2:28 pm

Nope! My friend bought the chassis without drivetrain for 9000GBP in England. Another 1000eur for getting it over to Austria. The engine with transmission made it up to 27500eur with all the needed parts. Count another 7500eur for all the other stuff like paintjob, graphics, tires, gas tank and all the small crap..... That makes it a total of around 45000eur which is exactly 57 955,5 US-Dollar by todays exchange rate.

JK · Post by JK » Sat Sep 04, 2010 2:38 pm

damn! thats not bad..... if there was labor tacked on it would add up to more of what i thought. its always good to know how to do it yourself. u can save a ton of cash..

Post by **joerg** » Sat Sep 04, 2010 2:44 pm

Rule number one: Never count the labor u throw into something u enjoy

Post by **ttocs** » Sat Sep 04, 2010 2:47 pm

I figured you had more then his estimate into it, good work.

THAT is the tattoo you want your mechanic to have when working on your mopar.

I hope it doesn't blow up on you again....

Post by **joerg** » Sat Sep 04, 2010 2:53 pm

We are looking forward to make our first full 1/4mile run this time! We now eliminated 3 weak links in the chain at once. The valve springs were replaced by new and stronger ones, the self build intake manifold has been replaced by a INDY intake manifold and the ratio from blower RPM´s to crankshaft RPM´s is now at 0% and not 20% over

oldschoolfan · Post by **oldschoolfan** » Tue Sep 07, 2010 7:06 am

Is that the Charuda in the background?

Post by **stipud** » Tue Sep 07, 2010 8:05 am

So you reduced the supercharger pulley size? Less boost is less power right? I guess if it keeps you from blowing the intake again then it's all good!

That thing is suuch a beast

Post by **kg1961** » Tue Sep 07, 2010 8:33 am

I though the small pully mean it turn smore making more power

NewOldStock · Post by **NewOldStock** » Tue Sep 07, 2010 9:51 am

stipud wrote:So you reduced the supercharger pulley size? Less boost is less power right? I guess if it keeps you from blowing the intake again then it's all good!

smaller SC pulley = faster rotation of the screws = more air foced into the engine = more power... or a horrible lean condition that will blow the motor

... not that I know that from personal experience.

Post by **stipud** » Tue Sep 07, 2010 9:54 am

Right I got the pullies backwards.

Post by **joerg** » Tue Sep 07, 2010 10:46 pm

stipud wrote:Right I got the pullies backwards.

That´s right u got em backwards. We have a bigger pulley on the supercharger now. 5 teeth more then the other had.

And we bougth an intake from INDY now. It´s not a selfbuild one anymore.

oldschoolfan wrote:Is that the Charuda in the background?

Yes it is!