Britco Automotive Machine

Three weeks from zero to a 9.06 ET

This will document what we accomplished, with help from many people and sponsors a car that took on a life of it's own. We started with something that needed a lot of work and ended up with a very nice car capable of an 8 second 1/4 mile time.

Build People

Brian Macy, Brett Eberle, Jim Rowoldt, Allen Bruflodt, Tony Lemon, Darin Bonahoom, Shawn Allegre, Shawn Willis, Frank and Cheri Schnarrs, Phil Rohr, Brett Rohr, Kevin Grummic, Jeff Neely, Anthony "JR", Shaun Sederberg, Adam Curry, Monty Maxin, Ryan Mills, Matt Huff, Rick Conley SR and Rick Conley JR.

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List of Sponsors

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Beginning of build

Listed on our local web message board was a notice that Pinks the TV show was looking for racers for an upcoming filming at Pacific Raceways in Kent Washington. Allen came over to Horsepower Connection and we called the show and talked to Richard Christensen the shows inventor. After talking with him for almost an hour we decided that we would take Allen's 1979 Malibu and make a nice looking, turbo, fuel injected car capable of running a 10.50 quarter mile time. After hanging up the phone with Rich I immediately started calling potential sponsors. I first called Britco Racing Engines for help with a good engine to throw some boost at, then I called Phil Rohr from Phil's Race Cars to help make the chassis work and make the necessary updates to the cage. Most of the first week was taken up calling and getting sponsors and making sure things were shipped out so we could start working on the car. During the day I was on the phone talking to potential sponsors and during the night we would work at least until 12:00am, most of the time even later than that. One of the hardest things with this build was the constant checking and re-checking to make sure things were getting shipped on time and parts were actually shipped. Without parts we could not build a car.

Parts Started to come in.

Our first major part that was donated was the cylinder heads. The heads, crank, rods, main and rod bearings were donated by Robert from Chaos Drag Racing Team http://mywebpages.comcast.net/dragrace/

They started life out as 64cc combustion chamber, 2.02 intake and 1.60 exhaust, 200cc intake runner heads from PBM.part number 1982363

These heads were immediately taken over to Shawn Willis for some cylinder head porting. We also took over our Edelbrock Victor Jr EFI intake for some port work. The heads turned out much better than expected with flow numbers of 240cfm stock and 290cfm when Shawn was finished.

Contact Shawn Willis at 360-508-0672

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