Re: One litre Ecoboost.....
2015/04/06 11:02:31
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Hi,
It sure did get turbo charged, a ray jay with 28 pound boost. I had it doing sub 11's at Oran park, it was a real weapon. The problem was it had a reliability factor of zero. My mechanic was Garry Wilmington who used to race touring cars, so eventually I stripped it down to put a flip front on it, some fibreglass rear quarters and fibreglass boot, Garry knew Collin Bond and I spent big dollars buying a cosworth race engine complete with twin injection and turbo , the lot. I used a fibreglasser in Leppington to make the moulds for the project and Fast Fours and Rotaries came and took all the ground up photos, I went overseas for a year and I got stabbed in the back, I got home to find a car with my body moulds in fast fours, I found that the fibreglasser used my moulds and made a car up for his son, and they used it in the mag, To add insult to injury the stripped down photos were of my car, the glassier said the mag put pressure on him, the mag said I owed the fibreglasser money so he put pressure on them to publish his sons car, both were lying sacks of SH*T. After that I lost heart and sold off the bits and pieces for next to nothing. I ended up buying an EA Falcon that Wilmington was preparing for races, took the cage out, put in a 351 cleveland. It made it on the cover of Street Heat but, before it hit the shelves, I had it striped and repainted Ferrari yellow and a GM671 blower fitted, to this day I still own it that way. As far away from the pain of betrayal as I could get, yet I still miss RISKY.
Ralf