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Title: V-8 with Hayabusa heads
Post by: Milwaukee Midget on June 16, 2008, 12:01:27 AM

Attended the Sussex (Wisconsin) British Field Days today, a fundraising car show for Children's Hospital and featuring Pommy cars.  Met John Hartley, with Hartley Enterprises.  John is building 2.8 litre, 200 lb, 400 HP V-8's which use Hayabusa heads.  With street cams, the engine turns 10,000 RPM.

His test mule is a Caterham Super 7,  :-o which can be viewed on his site.

http://www.h1v8.com/page/page/1562068.htm

I almost soiled myself.

Title: Re: V-8 with Hayabusa heads
Post by: Dean Los Angeles on June 16, 2008, 12:17:42 AM

Yup, we've all drooled over that one.
http://www.landracing.com/forum/index.php/topic,2355.0.html (http://www.landracing.com/forum/index.php/topic,2355.0.html)
http://www.landracing.com/forum/index.php/topic,2177.msg25037.html#msg25037 (http://www.landracing.com/forum/index.php/topic,2177.msg25037.html#msg25037)

Title: Re: V-8 with Hayabusa heads
Post by: Milwaukee Midget on June 16, 2008, 12:28:01 AM

Quote from: Dean Los Angeles on June 16, 2008, 12:17:42 AM

Yup, we've all drooled over that one.

So just how early in the morning does one have to get up to show ya'll something new? :-)

Title: Re: V-8 with Hayabusa heads
Post by: Milwaukee Midget on June 17, 2008, 08:54:37 PM

I guess I didn't mention that I actually saw the car.  It's a really slick install.  And of course, did I bring a camera?   NOOOO!

He's had cutouts in the sides of the hood, so I looked inside them and simply didn't know what I was looking at.  At first I though it might have been a Mitsubishi V-6.  John obliged my curiosity and opened the bonnet and started explaining it to me and about 12 other onlookers.  The engine is a piece of art.