By now most everyone would have seen either pictures or video of the Trick & Mansweto Capri trying to imitate the Space Shuttle at the Delco East Coast Nationals held on 1-3 September.
Many people have speculated as to what went wrong – or right depending on your point of view – so the boys at T&M have sent out the following explanation of that run to set the record straight;
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Good Evening all our fellow racers & spectators. We thought it would be good to let everybody know what caused this massive wheel stand.
We have just rebuilt the 600ci 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 differently 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 used VP SVO5 & this fuel has a lower spec gravity to C14+ which caused the floats to 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 caused them to bend & not hold the car down at all, like they have for the past 3 years.
When I left the line I could tell that something was wrong in the wheelie bar department as I was 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.
After the car settled I removed my foot only to realise that the throttle was stuck at 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.
and I thought seeing a yellow XY stand up all over the cover of Street Machines was great...that looks even better! should have it cracking 1500 HP sometime I hope boys!
I E-Mailed a pic of the Capri to a old friend from high school, He loved VL's so much. Thought they could beat any Ford out there. I name the E Mail, VL This.
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Originally Posted by H_4_Z_E
I've never been about getting somewhere as fast as possible... I'd rather look cool getting there.
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F O R D 9 7
EL Fairmont Ghia 4.0Ltr - XR6 Sleeper
Team Name "Limiter"
The Team (Brisbane & Sunny Coast)
I6s: EL Ghia, EF mont, ED mont, ED futura, EBII gli, EA ghia, EA gl
V8s: EBI ghia, EBI mont
Utes: AU, BA, BF F6
LWBs: NL, NA II SVO
Thanx for the story, looks like an exciting ride.... U did well to think not to ease off and drop the car back down. Must be tuff to keep on the power and not know for sure your not going to run into something
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Houston, we have lift off.
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