Admittedly I am not a drag racer, I've done it for 25+ years but it's not something I have a passion for. Now WOT acceleration AND turning AND braking around a roadcourse-That's racing
Since I do have a rag tag collection of Mopars, I go to Mopars At The Strip each year in Vegas, it's April 11-13th this year and all the usual suspects will be there so I'm in. This year I'm 'debuting' my 1984 Dodge Rampage. It's been soaking up time and energy from me for almost 20 years and no, it's not done yet
Gone is the 85HP carbureted motor and in it's place a is a Lotus derived DOHC 2.2l turbo motor that was in the 91-93 Dodge Spirit RT's and Daytona IROC RT's. The previous owner started the whole project rolling in '94 when he found a wrecked 93 IROC that a Camp Pendleton based Marine wrecked his first weekend and 912 miles into ownership. FInanced it on Friday, totaled it on Sunday. When I bought the Truck off the original owner in '96 or '97 he sold it to me for $1500. and a bag of receipts that totaled just about $20,000. he spent on it
It was his vision but unfortunately he lacked fabrication skils to build it so he paid various mechanics to do the conversion process for him, heck some of it was even done at a couple San Diego Dodge dealerships. Imagine going to a Ford dealer today and asking them to shoehorn a motor that over twice as powerful into the engine bay after they got done :icon_lol:at you, they'd say no thanks. What a build disaster of epic proportions! Everything was either hacked in or hacked on so I've been rebuilding it for the last 18 years to my standards. Not very much is stock anymore, and that 220HP motor from the factory is rebuilt with forged/ported/polished/upgraded everything and a T04 E trim turbo. At 16PSI boost it's over 350 now. It's a real uh, 'experience' to drive or ride in
Any EBPF members going to be around Vegas next weekend? They have a class for anything vs the Mopars if you guyus wanna race
I entered the 'truck' class and 'sport compact' to get twice as much track time. If no oily parts find their way out of the block I'm expecting mid 11's, a buddy of mine back east with the same motor and the same Rampage( damn his is nice, google Bill Baker Rampage if your bored) is running 11.72's so I want to beat that mark
I only have a couple pics on my new 'surface' PC, most of the build pics are trapped in my old laptop. I'll add a few sourced from another site if I get time.
EDIT: DAMMIT MIKE! Site wont allow the pic size
SECOND EDIT: I opened them with paint and resized them to 85% original, seemed to work but a PIA...
