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We have just come online to have a quick sneak & thought it would be good to let everybody know what caused this massive wheel stand. We have just rebuilt the 600 ci motor & made a new sheet metal manifold which produced an extra 100 HP & 30 ft lbs for a new total of 1260 HP & 875 ft lbs.We also designed the manifold different to all previous manifolds which resulted in an unbelievable acceleration rate on the dyno, like nothing we had ever seen before.

Whilst testing the motor we also used VP SVO5 & this fuel has a lower spec gravity to C14+ which caused the floats to actually run slightly low. It took 3 runs for us to figure out why the car had not shown any more power or even quicker 60 ft times. This was due to the front jets being uncovered when wheel standing. After we raised the floats back up the engine did not stay at 6200 rpm off the start line for 2 seconds like previous, instead it went straight from 6200 to 6700 & continued to climb rapidly to 7500 whilst still moving upwards. This extra acceleration cause the wheelie bars to bend further up & bottom out on the rear of the car which actually cause them to bend & not hold the car down at all, like it has done for 3 years now.

When i left the line i knew that something was wrong in the wheelie bar department due to only seeing blue sky for way too long, but I knew if I got out of the throttle the car would come down & totally smash everything underneath, so I kept my foot on the throttle until it came back down totally. After the car settled I removed my foot only to realise that the throttle was actually stuck on full. I looked at the tacho & it was somewhere around 8600 & new the rev limited was set to 8700, so as soon as the limiter took hold of the motor I selected neutral & hit the kill switch to end this wild but exciting ride.

I will be online for another 10 minutes, please feel free to reply if you would like to ask any questions.

Trick & Mansweto Racing

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