Look at the Horsepower! page. This would probably be a pretty good outline for six cylinder fans. I could see hooking this motor to a t-5 trans and putting the combo in a Mav, and having it be a lot of fun to drive. Probably need to keep the revs up to keep it in the power, but it seems like it could also be a mileage champ too, if you keep your foot out of it. It uses a lot of Classic Inlines parts.
Sorry guys, cant believe I totally forgot about this, but here are the pics. They're big(6mp) so you can read the articles, click the thumbnail to view the image.
In the second picture, notice how everyone is just standing around .... no guardrail? Most tracks back then had steel (or aluminum?) guardrails, and the cars could jump over them if they crashed the wrong way. Some tracks even had grass margins a lane or so wide before the guardrail, so you would see early funny cars running sideways through the grass at 150 mph from time to time. Most tracks now have the concrete barriers at the edge of the track ... a good thing, especially for the spectators.
I raced at a lot of tracks in Oregon, Washington, and California some 40 years ago and there were some tracks that had no guardrails or center dividers. For the most part the place where people crowded around was the starting line and the first 100'. Sure, there were people at the top end of the track, but not a lot of spectators. Here is a YouTube of the Redding, CA drag strip, the oldest continuously NHRA track in the USA. This was taken in 1962 or 1963..............this may give some of the young guys an eye opening view of the early drag racing days.
From 200 cubic inches. If it was a 302, it would 350 HP. Like I said ... mileage champ. If that was the goal, 233 HP would be enough as to not be boring and miserable to drive on a daily basis.
Plus the head & manifold are only $2K, would still need the headers, cam, exhaust system, carb etc... http://www.classicinlines.com/products.asp?cat=31 You can get the 2027 E-brock top-end kit for a 302 for around $1500 and make 88 more HP...
So, let's put this in perspective on a few motors........... Ford Flathead V8 made 315hp @5200rpm......cost $10.5k...or $33 per HP Ford 200 6cyld made 233hp.................cost$4.2k maybe.......or $18 per HP Ford 408 V8 made 642hp @ 6800rpm.....cost $8.5k......or $13.25 per HP So, it just depends on how much you love a motor and are willing to spend to make reliable HP...................IMHO
not to mention how many hopped up 6's do you see these days? IMHO, in a sea of V8's.. that's worth something too. Also has me wondering what a nice little turbo would do on that particular motor(with some dished blower pistons of course). The look on others faces when the hood popped up would be worth the trouble to squeeze 300 or so horsepower out of that little motor.
IMHO, in a sea of V8's.. that's worth something too. Also has me wondering what a nice little turbo would do on that particular motor(with some dished blower pistons of course). The look on others faces when the hood popped up would be worth the trouble to squeeze 300 or so horsepower out of that little motor. [/QUOTE] On a highly modified 250 with a tubo they hit 445 RWHP and 499 TQ. Now that'd be a fun 6 to drive.
I'd rather put the money into a 300 if was doing an inline. Little fabwork to get it in a Mav, but much better value than the 200-250s imho. And you can always say "it's just an old truck motor"!