Turbo 4 Cylinder Burnout!!!!!!!

Unless my eyes deceive me I think that is a 1964 Tempest. Cool beans nonetheless. Traditional in the Hot Rod Magazine sense.

Charlie

 

I admit it, I'm a gearhead, so I like something different to check out. Very innovative use of an obscure engine.

 

your on drugs dude.
turbos were around waaaaaay before the birth of this HAMB friendly 4 cyl pontiac thats blowing the fucking tires off.
jeez, you should try and learn to appreciate stuff that might be new to you or out of your box so to speak.

 

Yes,,its a 63 motor in a 64 LeMans A body.

 

sweet man, sumthin different. like it a lot

 

I checked with Charlie before posting this here. If you want a VERY long read, here is a thread from a Pontiac forum about his build & everything he went through. Warning that this thread is 60 pages long & covers several years. I belive he started in Dec 08 on the build of this beast.

http://www.pontiaczone.com/forum/showthread.php?t=23147

 

I love it. Yes, some of us were doing this kind of development back then. You have taken it to a level that few folks had imagined.
Fine job.
Dale
Cleveland OH

btw "Impressive but not what I come to the HAMB to see........ but how traditional is turbo charging ??? " Stop. Seriously. Move on.

 

"Holy Shhhhhhhhhhiiiiiouaaaaat!"...............LOL

 

What fuel is he running?

 

Wow!

 

PFFFFFFFFFT !

That Pontiac is more traditional than a Shoe Box this day in age !

Fuckin Love the 1/2 a 389 ........ !!!!!

Badd Ass on ANY forum

 

I had to turn the sound off, sounded too much like a bumble bee fart!

Too much modern shit under the hood for my taste but damn what a car and it's somewhere around me in NY.

I like it!

 

I'm thinking he put it it the '64 so he could concentrate on the engine build. I'd love to see it back in a '63 (or maybe a GTO)

 

More than likely couldn't run it in a '63. That much power would rip that rope driveshaft right out of the car. But it would be cool in the lighter '61 or '62 modified with a Ford 9" and a "normal" driveshaft.

 

The modern looking turbo set up is the grey area. Put a hood on it and we're ok.

 

That's bad ass, love to have that setup in a Model A or something.

 

Awesome machine! Still in R&D. Hats off to the builder. He could always steam-punk the plumbing in an older rig, but for an early sixties it fits right in.

 

Freakin awesome! But why not in the baby Tempest it came in?

 

I can tell ya for a fact that it doesn't even take 1/2 that HP to tear off the axle ends in a 63 tempest.I got so good at breaking axles that the local junk yard would call me as soon as they got one in!I'm not sure he would have trouble with the flexable drive shaft I never did with my 63 1/2 Lemans Convertable with 326 V8 but those axle shafts were peanut butter!

 

There was some reference to the car having a 5 speed trans. That means it doesn't have the Tempest transaxle or related hardware.

 

Definitely not as impressive as playing cards painted on a fender.

 

Early cars with the transaxle were only made 61-63. This is a 63 motor in a 64 LeMans. Checked with the owner/builder,,, he's currently running E-85 fuel with 8.75-1 compression, 25 PSI of boost. New converter will be in next week then its back together & retune/dyno... When the car was first together, it had a 5 speed & running on 3 cylinders dyno'd at 442 hp at rear wheels. Car now has a T400 trans.

 

I saw '63 and apparently didn't read closely enough.

 

I think Mickey Thompson would approve and if that ain't traditional i'll kiss your ass.

 

My response was to post #43 saying that "IF this got put in a 63", 63 (technicaly 63 1/2) was the last of the transaxle tempest and the 63 1/2 tempest Lemans came with a 326 V8 I had one, I never had any problem with the drive shaft but being a 16 year old kid did manage to twist off the splined end of several of the axle shafts which were like early Corvair or VW a solid shaft about 1 1/4 inch od and not very rugged.The weak link in the tempest transaxle was the axles.today you might be able to swap axle parts from a 65-69 Corvair into the Tempest they are short drive shafts same as a Corvette and regularly stand up to V8 swaps.

 

Pucker up big boy!

 

That is nothing short of awesome! I would love to see that car show up at a Fart Can-Type R-JDM-R Spec import gathering and show them what a 50 year old car can do with a 4 banger.

 

Maybe some feel it doesnt fit in here, bit IMO it shows what hot rodding is about. Guy having fun with what he can build.

 

Turbo cars are fun, I once had a non HAMB Dodge Spirit R/T, that thing would run! Currently have a mildly modified MR2 Turbo. High 12's with 2 liter engine. A bud has one that he's shooting for high low 10's with. Some area guy has a turboed '53? Buick straight 8. On a HAMB note, took the '49 Chevy truck out for a long drive yesterday. Taking the '47 Chevy coupe out today for a Sunday cruise. I like fun cars.....

 

It could have been worse. The '63s had bigger axles than the '61-'62. I think all did, but the V-8 car for sure. The nonly reason I know that is because I used a Tempest transaxle in a V-8 powered Mini Cooper. When a shortened '62 axle was bent in an accident I upgraded to bigger ones from a '63.

Although it wasn't a widespread problem, it wasn't unheard of for those driveshafts to break in stock cars. If it was nicked through the protective coating when the car was being worked on it was more likely to break. Mostly as a result of being shortened, the one in my Mini broke several times. With a little work it could have been converted to conventional driveshaft, which I should have done.