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The Challenge: Rust Bucket Blogs

We challenge Project Car Magazine to a duel
Posted August 6 2008 01:02 PM by Jason Sands 
Filed under: Editorials, Direct Injection

Tell me folks, does this project truck with the K-Mart bin in the back look like a Drag racer?  Does it even look remotely fast?  Well it isn't that fast (yet) but it can still hold its own.  With 300 rear wheel horsepower moving 5000 pounds, it has gone a best of 9.66 at 73mph in the 1/8th mile.  (About a 14.9 in the 1/4)


Guess what?  Project Car Magazine (also a source interlink publication at www.projectcarmag.com) is into imports, and they built a full on engine swap turbocharged honda on drag radials that runs (??)  9.64 at 80mph.  Looks like we got a race here!  So I emailed the fellas over at project car to let them know they are offically challenged to an 1/8th mile drag race here in Irwindale, CA.  It's import vs domestic, trucks vs car, turbo vs turbo, and diesel verses gas.  With a weight of a little over 2200 lbs and about 150whp, they are also pretty close to us power-to-weight ratio-wise.  So what do you think, will they take the bait?  We've already got a few tricks up our sleeves.

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