DeTomaso Mailing List: September 97, Message #1

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From: MikeLDrew@aol.com

Subject: Re: 300 HP Pantera

Date: Mon, 1 Sep 1997 02:38:47 -0400 (EDT)




Hello all,



First, I said:

"As some have said before, "I'd much rather be driving a 300 horsepower

Pantera than lying underneath a 500 horsepower Pantera! :>)"



Then, Forest asked:



Mike, that Pantera (that you are not driving) - what are you going to build?



>>>Due to financial constraints, and the notion that bigger and better engine

technology might lay right around the corner, I elected to just do a minor

re-build on my existing Cleveland.  It came with a monster solid-lifter cam;

I put in a Comp Cams hydraulic cam.  TRW 10:1 pistons, existing (already

ported) open-chamber heads fitted with one-piece stainless valves and

titanium keepers (because the builder happened to have a set literally just

lying around collecting dust), and that fabulous FPP dual-plane intake, which

netted me 389 hp and 380 ft/lbs of torque on the dyno, at 5500 rpm.  300

ft/lbs of torque at 2000 rpm, never falling below that value.  So it should

be a torque monster, not a revver.  I think my total expenses were $1200 for

parts, plus several cases of Canadian beer for the labor.



Such a deal.



Mike



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