Re: Cruising pics, steering wheel, Skyline,SR20

[Vicki Burrows <gregnvicki@earthlink.net>]

Apparently this guy with the turbo V6 Alpine is not well liked by the Tiger
crowd.  Those BOSS engines were pretty nice I hear.  My friend Steve (the
cylinder head developer) has an intake gasket for a 428 Cobra Jet (I think it is
428... or 429?  I get confused, but it is a Cobra Jet).  The size of the intake
ports would blow you away.  Ford was VERY serious when they were building this
engine.  Steve likes to bring it out when someone is spouting off about this or
that cylinder head... they kinda shut up after that.
Greg Burrows

Dave Stoll wrote:

> Back in my early roadster days, my friend had a 'vette with a ZL1 427, an
> all aluminum engine.  He put some money in the engine and did very well at
> the local street racer 1/8 straightaway.  One night a little car showed up
> and beat the 'vette.  The little car was a Sunbeam Tiger II which originally
> had a 289 Ford from the factory but the owner had replaced it with a BOSS
> 302.  After the first 1/8 mile the 'vette would win but for that first 1/8
> that little Tiger II couldn't be beat.  My friend went out and bought a
> regular Tiger II with the 289 just to see what the car was like.  Before he
> sold the car I drove it around the area and pushed it as hard as I dared
> treat someone else's car.  The front end was heavy and not near as  nice as
> my 1600 roadster but what a kick on the straightaway!!!  When we got back he
> let me know I hadn't opened the secondarys on the 4barrel !!.
> daveS
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Vicki Burrows <gregnvicki@earthlink.net>
> To: Datsun Dude <roadstrdude@yahoo.com>
> Cc: alvin gogineni <alvingogi@hotmail.com>;
> <datsun-roadsters@autox.team.net>
> Sent: Wednesday, September 04, 2002 9:14 PM
> Subject: Re: Cruising pics, steering wheel, Skyline,SR20
>
> > One of THE fastest cars I have ever seen (at least in a straight line) was
> an Alpine... of
> > course, it had a 4.3 liter Buick V6 with the biggest turbocharger you can
> imagine in it.
> > Absolutely insane.
> > Greg Burrows
>
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