COME-1 Torana runs 8.52 @ 158 mph at Calder Park
It was a balmy night on Friday the 8th April. We took the reliable old COME-1 Torana to Calder Park raceway for its first runs down it's home track (since updating its 383ci Holden engine). As usual it was up in the air aiming for the sky as Issy launched the car and it ran its fastest and quickest run ever with the "plastic" installed.
The beautiful new timing towers at Calder (thanks Bob and Ian) read out loud and clear an 8.52 ET @ 158.3 mph. The track is looking awesome and the boys doing the prep are to be congratulated.
Our Holden 383ci Stroker engine as many of you may remember received a birthday in the form of a freshen up and was fitted with our new 2004 series alloy heads and already shows the gains in spite of the fact we fitted some of the newest Goodyear slicks to replace the old worn out ones.
No, there's nothing wrong with the Goodyears, I personally would not use any other brand of Drag slick, period. What I meant was the fact that the new versions have larger rollout so our overall gearing suffered a little.
In other news, our V6 Ecotec Stroker crank, rod, piston kit has fallen behind schedule. But I can assure you, it will be worth the wait. the latest updated crank is absolutely perfect as are the slightly modified rods to enable adequate clearance in that tight little crankcase. We hope to have the kits released by June 2005. There will be a normally aspirated kit for $2530.00 and more radical setup for mild street Blower/Turbo/N2O setups including custom forged pistons for $3500.00 or full on high boost or competition application kits with "H" beam rods as well for $4000.00 a fully balanced kit.
We've also tackled the VP-VR engine and will be making kits available for these a little bit later. These engines with 8 bolt flywheel flanges will accept our Ecotec crank a custom rod and OEM type piston out of the 3.8 will be a bolt in. This combo will require the use of an Ecotec harmonic balancer and rebalancing the flywheel with extra counterweight like the Ecotec engine has, basically no big deal. This will entail making a custom rod to suit this application which is now in the works. This is in response to a big enquiry list from earlier V6 engine owners. Sorry we will not be doing a kit to suit earlier VN type engines at this stage.
For further info or answers to specific questions call us on (03)9571-4204 or email us at come@comeracing.com
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