I had the occasion to contact WJ a few months ago concerning an engine I'm building. He is the guy to ask about anything all out BBC.Amazingly he very graciously answered all my questions and then some. I'll tell you one thing the man is opinionated but his considerable testing has led him to a lot of knowledge.
I then asked him about the rumor floating around the LR community that he was going to build a car for a LS record. He said he had entertained the idea but the "sponsorship" amount, $200,000 couldn't be justified. Yep, an E gas streamliner and Warren doesn't do things out of his own pocket. So you know he crunched the numbers to come up with that figure. I know you can build things on the cheap if you have all the time in the world to do it, but if you want to get it done you have to step up. If it was cheap there would be a lot more entrants at Speed Week