Re: Farmalls with Caddy engines

Posted by Jim.UT on February 23, 2006 at 14:22:21 from (64.122.18.247):

In Reply to: Re: Farmalls with Caddy engines posted by Tim...Ok on February 23, 2006 at 12:48:24:

The article in Hot Rod Magazine that sticks out in my memory was called "Caddy-Hack". The purpose of the article was to show drag racers the negative effects of excess weight on your race car.

They started out with an old sedan DeVille. They did a 1/4 mile pass with 4 people aboard. Then they started removing parts, first the seats, then the doors, then the hood. Each time the removed something they did another 1/4 mile blast and recorded the ET and top speed. After a while they got really crazy and started torching off every conceivable part not necessary to make it move. At the end they had just a frame with a fiberglass bucket seat bolted to it, and the drivetrain. Everything else was gone.

I can't remember now, but it seems like they got down into the 12 second area...all without touching the engine.

A few months later they did an article on the vehicles owned by the guy who donated the sedan DeVille for the test. He had caddy motors stuffed into every vehicle he owned, pickup, motorhome, '50 Ford coupe, '53 Studebaker, etc etc.

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