I was at this race. Me and dad sat on the trunk of his Miata outside of the first right hander where the Dyson and Ferrari collided. The V12 Ferrari is in my top 5 engine sounds. Mazda 767b at Daytona is another love sound gear heads should put on their bucket list.
Hi, Gary. Yes, it's a Type 4 engine. Basics are 2056cc pistons, Web 86A cam, around 9:5.1 compression, dry sump, and Dellorto DRLA carbs. Guessing around 140hp? It's plenty for having fun driving this car around the track.
@@GregAmy Thanks, Greg. I want to build a track car in the near future and have been seriously looking into a 914 utilizing the type 4 powerplant. Its robust and if built properly can compete with 911's at less than half the cost. Thanks for the inspiration! Regads, Gary
@@garymenes I concur, that's why I've not switch my car to a six (though I aodre how it sounds and drives). Plus, if you switch to a six, now you're playing in the pool with the 911 drivers, and I don't have pockets that deep...
lol "That poor Datsun" should be asking himself why he's 10-15 mph slower than an IT-prepped front-wheel-drive car on DOT radials, and why he's braking 50-75 feet sooner than said car (which is 300# overweight for E Production). Totally caught me off guard how slow he was going through the Esses and South Bend and how soon he braked into Oak Tree. But that got sorted out on the next lap...
@@GregAmy sucks you wadded your car up in that race. i'm a datsun guy, i have 3 Z's, i just hate seeing them wadded up on a race track. i think they should all just give me their cars and go race a modern chassis thats a dime a dozen.
@@DontCallMeGarage Fortunately, that Datsun Z escaped the crash, ironically by going the "wrong" way (had the Triumph not moved forward, the Datsun would probably have creamed it instead of me and the BMW). I'm with you on the classic cars as race cars. There's a lot of cars out there that are worth a lot more as street cars. Sadly, maybe worth so much that it's a risk to drive them at all...I have a 914 race car, for example, that I wonder what it would be worth if it didn't have a rollcage in it. But we built these race cars when they were just used-up old street cars. Who woulda ever thought someone would find a four-banger 914 worth anything? So we'll just enjoy 'em while we can.
That Datsun is owned and driven by a very fine individual who is also a decent driver. He was having car problems(transmission I think) from the very beginning. That could have affected his performance level at that point, don’t you think? Didn’t he out qualify you?
150' feet is left of the original 450'. It broke off right about the lower anchor guy wires; upper anchor wire failed and bent backwards at that point and broke off. View the top of the tower and you can see that one of the slip-fit tubes is still there, but the other two bent and broke off. The wire that failed was on the corner that survived.
That was a 50 mph crash test scenario. So sorry to see this happen. Glad to see the safety gear did it's job. It's hard to imagine what the driver of the Triumph was thinking.
I'll tell you. I was sitting perpendicular to the flow of traffic and couldn't see much to the left. Directly ahead was grass, which instinctively seemed much safer. Should I have moved? In hindsight no. But it wasn't -- and believe me I've had this conversation with a lot of drivers in the last 48 hours -- a crazy instinct. Driving onto the track from the grass and causing that mess? I get it, tar and feather me. Trying to get out of the way? Still wrong, especially in hindsight, but the instinct was not crazy.
@@jeffyoung6927 Yeah, that's also what we have been discussing (arm chair quarterbacking). I'm sure the desire to get out of harms way was strong and it's easy to look back and be critical of decisions. Either way, it was a tough situation. I'm just glad the injuries will heal and the cars are not totaled (but it was sad watching your beautiful TR8(?) get crushed).
Hi Greg, thanks for posting. Here’s the view from my car. I’m driving the blue 76 Alfa Romeo Alfetta. I was a few cars back. I could see you spin as I exited the down hill. It’s hard to see in the video but I could see you. It gave be some time to plan. I initially wanted to go right but the yellow 914. Looped while evading. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-xNHJQwbbnEE.htmlfeature=shared
How y'all missed me was 9/10ths your madz skillz and 1/10th whatever my favorite deity was at that moment...and I was talking to all of them. Thanks for that 9/10ths.
