Quickest Rolls-Royce

[Blown Alcohol 57tbird]

My uncle sent me this in e-mail

Quickest Rolls-Royce

No, it's not a chop. It's a 1970 Rolls-Royce Silver Shadow built by Joe's Street Rod
Shop. Poking out of the hood behind the Spirit of Ecstasy is a blown 572-ci Chrysler Hemi that is bottle fed to a more-than-adequate 1,350 horsepower. The car has all of the luxury touches you would expect from a Roller, including full leather, Vintage Air A/C, four TVs and a jar of Grey Poupon. Underneath it's a full tilt boogie runner with a Chris Alston chassis, Air Ride, Wilwood brakes, full tubs and Billet Specialties Riviera wheels. It even has a leather-swathed trunk with matching coverings for the batteries, fuel cell and bottle. Notice the leather wrapped roll cage inside as well, a very elegant touch, and one that sums this sophisticated beast up perfectly.

[dwarner]

Oh please!!

That thing will never turn a wheel in anger. I would guess no crank or pistons.

DW

[Robin UK]

OK,not a Roller but a Bentley. Blown 6.75litre V8. Street legal too.

[Dave Cox]

http://www.worldlandspeedrecord.com/lsr500%20photos/show/lsr500show1.jpg

I think these RR engines can beat it....

[Robin UK]

Nah - these Rolls Royce engines have beaten everything!!   

[Malcolm UK]

Dave

As potential quickest RR engined streamliner owner how is the reconstruction going?

Malcolm UK

[Jim Demmitt Jr]

Nah - these Rolls Royce engines have beaten everything!!   

Your right

Rolls Royce powerful beasts ALSR proven   

[Stan Back]

Your right what?

[Jim Demmitt Jr]

Your right what?

(Rolls Royce engines have beaten everything)

Rolls Royce Avon 302 from Thrust SSC web site (Click Car)

Worlds fastest jet engines on land
http://www.thrustssc.com/thrustssc/contents_frames.html


ThrustSSC is the most powerful, most extraordinary car ever to be designed to attack the Land Speed Record, and as the SSC (SuperSonic Car) in the name indicates, it is also one of the first with genuine potential to breach the Sound Barrier.

Where Thrust2 used a 17,000 pound thrust Rolls-Royce Avon 302 engine from a Lightning fighter, ThrustSSC is the first car to use not one, but two turbojets. These will initially be Rolls-Royce Spey 202s from the Phantom fighter, each producing 20,000 pounds of thrust. Richard Noble has acquired two of them, but also has two even more powerful 205 units (25,000lb of thrust) for use when ThrustSSC has proved itself in transonic testing. ThrustSSC thus has the power of 1000 Ford Escorts, or 145 Formula One cars...

It will weighs 10 tonnes, and initial performance estimates suggest it will accelerate from standstill to 100mph (161kph) in four seconds or 0-600mph (1000kph) in 16 seconds. Within five miles (8 km) it will then reach its maximum speed of 850 mph within half a minute