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November 15, 2022

5,000 HP Twin-Turbo 526 cid Hemi Engine

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There were more than a few cool-looking engine bays at the 2022 Builder’s Brawl this past summer, but none in our opinion topped that of Cory Clemens of Clemens Motorsports Unlimited LLC. His Pro275 drag car, nicknamed King of the Jungle II, is a Trans Am featuring a gray, black, gold and burgundy red paint job, and his engine bay houses a massive, twin-turbo, 526 cubic inch Hemi engine. It stood out, even amongst a crowd of other super-clean, super stout drag cars, so we had to know more about the engine and the builder/driver behind it.

As it turned out, Cory started building this car when he was just 16 years old. His family owns and operates Clemens Motorsports Unlimited LLC out of Osage Beach, MO. The shop has been around for over 30 years, doing everything from running professorial race teams to working on major marketing projects for performance businesses.

“All my life you could find me at the drag strip,” Cory Clemens says. “Whether that was watching my dad race his Pro Mod, to making laps in my high school car, or even helping out on some of the pro teams. I’ve driven everything from Jr. Dragsters to Pro Street cars and even Super Comp dragsters, and I don’t plan on stopping there.”

The 2022 Builder’s Brawl was held at World Wide Technology Raceway

Cory has aspirations of one day driving a Top Fuel dragster. His Pro275 Trans Am is a good stepping stone for sure. The car he had at the Builder’s Brawl was a four-year build.

“We debuted this car at PRI in 2019,” Clemens told us. “It’s a Pro275 car that we built for LDR (Limited Drag Radial), but we ended up getting bumped up. Currently, we’re doing more No Prep and No Time racing and that kind of thing.

“Pretty much anything you see on the car, I did it. It was a four-year project I did in high school. It involved a lot of tin work and bar bending. I learned how to weld and really got good at that. At our shop, I do a lot of roll cages for guys. I do a lot of sheet metal work and just help anywhere I can for customers. We also do some parts sales. I wired, plumbed and welded the car. If it was done, I did it. That’s what I love to do.”

The 526 cid Hemi engine features a billet Brad Anderson Enterprises block and cylinder heads, as well as a Bryant crankshaft, CP connecting rods, an LSM camshaft, Manton pushrods, Manton rockers, a Hogan’s sheet metal intake, custom valve covers, a Peterson oiling system, and twin 88mm Garrett turbos with TiAL wastegates.

“It’s got the best of the best that we could put in it,” Clemens says. “It’s billet everything. We did everything we could do to get an edge.”

Of course, helping the Hemi gain an edge are those sizable Garrett twin turbos, as well as ComSYNC EFI. According to Cory, he usually pumps about 50-lbs. of boost through them and starts a run somewhere in the 7-10-lb. range, depending on the track and application. All of that equates to a billet Hemi capable of making around 4,800-5,000 horsepower.

When Cory runs something like a Duck X Production race, he says the team shoots for a 3.80-4.00 pass. However, his expectations were a little different, he says, with the No Prep stuff.

“Here at Builder’s Brawl, we’re hoping to run 4.50-4.80,” he noted. “That’s what we’re kind of shooting for as our goal for the weekend. We’d be happy with that because this is one of our first No Prep races. If we can get anything under a 5.00 flat we’d be really stoked.”

This Pro275 Trans Am and its twin-turbo Hemi engine are definitely a killer combo, and we look forward to seeing many, many more years of Cory in the driver’s seat. Needless to say, we’re glad we stopped and found out a little bit more about Cory Clemens and his drag car. More photos below…

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November 11, 2022

Honda Accord 2024 new generation loses turbo engine and gains technology

The Honda Accord sedan has entered its eleventh company cycle, and concerning modifications, some parts have been extra and subtracted.

The The new technology of Honda Accord It is listed here, and as we have viewed in other current versions from the Japanese maker, the sedan has picked out Far more regular style and design from its predecessor. For inside objects taken from the previous CivicAnd in terms of mechanics there are surprises.

Aesthetic modifications are apparent and introduced Simpler and more delicate traces and extras. The radiator grille is more compact with a grille, alongside with a pair of stripped headlights. Complete straight LED mild signature. Fenders as opposed to the bodywork.

The hood is a minimal lengthier, and from the facet perspective we can see the roof line Has a smoother drop. At the again, there is a small spoiler on the tailgate and the lighting package is developed into it, holding the very same The basic concept of the full car.

Inside growth and machines

A first glimpse of the interior normally takes us to the entirely renovated entrance panel, which is indicative of design and style Cooler and far more contemporary. New electronic screens for the dashboard and multimedia centre, as very well as a new distribution for the centre console and The vent hole is a strip that goes from a single side to the other.

Relying on the trim stage, the new Honda Accord 2024 can be equipped with Android Auto and Apple CarPlay or wi-fi. Obtain to Google MapsGoogle Assistant, Google Engage in, and additional. You can combine the leather steering wheel, sunroof, black upholstery and Aluminum pedals.

In the safety area, additional New airbags For driver and passenger, knee and rear passenger side airbags are regular. Driving guidance suite Honda sensor It has also been current with additional options.

Driving options

At the base of the selection is a 1.5-liter four-cylinder turbocharged motor New variable valve raise technology, Enhanced direct injection system and large rigidity crankshaft. The toughness continues to be the identical 192 hp and 260 Nm of torque.

Even though the 2.-liter turbo engine generates 252 horsepower and 360 Nm Taken offlineThe hybrid edition of the Accord has been modified. The electrified procedure consists of a 2.-liter 4-cylinder engine and two electrical motors which are situated next to each other.

The The energy decreased from 212 hp to just 204 hp, but increased the output torque to 335 Nm. Having said that, the brand name ensures that this motor It responds superior and extra proficiently at greater speeds. The suspension was tuned for what Honda identified as a “more engaging driving knowledge.”

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November 11, 2022

Grafting an LS Head Onto This Turbo Ford 300 I6 Engine Took Years

Standard Motors’ LS V8s are outside of commonplace in the car or truck nut universe. People swap them into everything—Porsches included—and even though they’re the fastest way to impress on a dyno, they are not specifically groundbreaking. That is part of why Jaron Nelson decided to turbocharge a Ford 300 inline-6 and make it his possess by modifying a set of LS heads to suit.

Now, Nelson is just not the 1st to do this, but I would wager that his engine establish is the most sophisticated of the class. It can be taken between two and 3 a long time of his absolutely free time to create, but unless of course you know what you happen to be performing, this sort of swap is all but not possible. Improve will make it even trickier, but last but not least, Nelson’s engine is running with a laundry checklist of modern mods to make it all occur.

“The motor by itself is far more generic than a human being thinks,” Nelson says, underselling it by a good deal. “It is stock bore. It has inventory pistons, crank, and rods. It has two #241 Camaro [LS1] cylinder heads welded jointly.”

Whilst you can find some aftermarket help for the Ford 300, there are key aspects that limit the engine’s general performance figures. Nelson identifies the cylinder head as difficulty numero uno. The stock unit doesn’t stream nearly plenty of to guidance his electric power ambitions, and neither do the handful of completely ready-made alternatives.

Nelson is employing his LS knowledge to address this equation which features an motor he bought off his father-in-law, a GT45 turbo that value him $163, and a ton of spare GM parts he experienced lying all around his store. He tells me he’s about $1,500 into the project, but you are unable to undervalue the amount of time it really is taken to get anything operating proper. He’s also uploaded in-depth explainers to his YouTube channel, Piston Ranch.

Jaron Nelson

Nelson experienced read through about previous-time drag racers fitting V8 heads to inline engines in the past, but their strategy was really archaic in comparison. They epoxied the cylinder heads alongside one another and ran a trio of Weber carburetors, which resulted in solid energy, all points thought of. Continue to, they ran into cooling challenges that would kneecap any undertaking that’s intended for the street.

“I determined that I desired to do it otherwise than that. It is really a great deal of welding and likely in between the bores and welding, there is a whole lot extra to it, in particular if you happen to be trying to seal up the coolant passages. Alternatively of undertaking that, I reduce the stop cap off a cylinder head, centered the center two cylinders on the cylinder head, opened the hole dimensions up, and basically I cut an additional two cylinders.

“There are a lot of coolant ports on the LS head that actually have to be welded shut. It takes advantage of a Ford 300 [head] gasket,” Nelson proceeds. “The 1 issue folks don’t think about is pushrods and pushrod angle. So the pushrods, if you have been to not have a side include on the motor, the pushrods would go midway outdoors the block. You have to basically reduce your pushrod holes out of the block and make the pushrod tubes line up so they’re a little bit canted out. You have to make a custom made side cover to hold your force tubes enclosed and retain oil within of the motor.”

It has a set of inventory Chevy truck injectors that are decapped, a mod that allows them to operate approximately 80 kilos per hour according to Nelson. He designed the total harness himself by having from a bunch of 2000s Chevy Suburbans, and it has a GM P01 engine command module. That offers its very own difficulties mainly because Nelson is managing coil over plug ignition, and GM never engineered it with the expected logic to operate a 6-cylinder on unique coils.

“Brandon with Turbo_V6 reached out and wrote the code that I could flash on the ECM that would travel it. It is really tuned by means of HP Tuners—the first tune that I place in, I experienced to use PCM Hammer for the reason that HP Tuner will not assist what it was carrying out. It’s flashed and it can be a 3 BAR map program so it really is set up for improve.”

As soon as Nelson had accomplished all that and bought the ingestion figured out, which he suggests was specifically tricky, he was ultimately capable to get it running in October.

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Eventually, it’ll go in his rat rod which is titled as a 1935 Chevy. It has a “hodgepodge” of other areas, including a top-loader four-pace transmission and a Ford 8.8-inch rear-finish.

“I know you can find some stuff out there that has made 500 hp at the flywheel, and that is cool, but that’s not really what my goal is. I am gonna hang the rods out of it. I’m just curious what the stock bottom conclude can take care of. To make 500 hp flywheel would be fairly amazing, but I would rather it make about 500 hp to the tires.”

You can see this Ford 300 just isn’t the only big undertaking Nelson has taken on. But in the close, it’s going to energy another just one of his homebrewed creations which is respectable on its possess. This Frankenstein engine just seals the offer.

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November 11, 2022

Volkswagen Almost Entered F1 in the 1980s With a VR8 Turbo Engine

The Brabham BT55 at Interlagos during the 1986 Brazilian Grand Prix — The minimal-back Brabham that the Volkswagen F1 cars and trucks would have resembled.

Two of the biggest tales of this year’s Method 1 season have revolved new suppliers coming into the planet championship for the 2026 period. Audi announced its entry, partnering with Sauber for its factory crew. Porsche arrived shut to finalizing a deal to spouse with Pink Bull Racing prior to negotiations collapsed. Equally Volkswagen Group maker has long gone Grand Prix racing before. However, neither automaker was less than Volkswagen ownership when they final appeared on racing’s most prestigious stage.

Motor Sport has a tale about Volkswagen’s canceled 1980s F1 task in its December 2022 situation. During the enhancement of the VR6 engine, VW severely deemed upscaling the principle to 8 cylinders for a Formula 1 motor vehicle. The tale is largely recalled by Peter Hofbauer, Volkswagen’s then-head of powertrain improvement. The 1.5-liter turbocharged VR8 engine concept was shopped to Judd, as a potential technical husband or wife, and a handful of probable buyer groups. Like several tales all around secretive F1 projects, there are a good deal of discussions in paddocks, upscale restaurants and boardrooms.

Hofbauer thinks that the slim-angle vee motor conceived for a transverse software in a hatchback could have been productively used to F1.

“The output of a large-ability engine arrives from the velocity at which you can run it — and the more compact the cylinder the quicker you can operate it,” he states. “This VR8, an eight cylinder with only a person head with these stacked cylinders, would give you an enormously compact and mild device, so the ability-body weight ratio would be outstanding. The electricity density is the key selection listed here.”

A VR8 F1 engine would have had a large centre of gravity had it been mounted upright in the car or truck. Hofbauer points out that this was by no means the intention. It would have been canted above in the way that BMW did with its straight 4 in a line of Brabham Components 1 vehicles. He also hints at a extra serious arrangement that would most most likely have pre-dated Brabham’s small-line BT55 of 1986.

Sad to say, Volkswagen’s finalized VR8 F1 engine never even arrived at the dyno. The venture was scrapped due to the fact the output VR program was delayed. The VR6 would be applied in VW’s highway cars and trucks commencing in 1991 immediately after Formula 1 banned turbocharged engines. Like a large amount of opportunities in System 1, occasionally it just will come down to timing.

Be absolutely sure to study the comprehensive tale of Volkswagen’s 1st attempt to sign up for the F1 grid listed here.