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The Romping, Stomping Rolls Royce From England With Drag Week Aspirations!


The Romping, Stomping  Rolls Royce From England With Drag Week Aspirations!

We were hanging out over at YellowBullet the other day when we stumbled upon a thread about a kick ass Rolls Royce drag car over in England. Even cooler was when the chassis builder revealed that the car is 100% street legal and the owner wants to run Drag Week (not 2011 we’re guessing, but awesome nonetheless). From what we have read, the car has a real steel Rolls body on it. Actually the body on the car currently is the second one it has worn because it fell off a transporter truck during construction, wrecking the original skin!

The stock 200hp engine was ditched right off the bat for a twin 88mm turbo fed, 588ci big block Chevy engine. Based off of a Dart block, it wears Dart heads, is stuff full of Howards rods, Ross pistons, and a custom ground cam, the specs derived by English engine builder John Sleath. FAST EFI feeds the engine, and an MSD digital 7 triggers the spark.

The transmission is a Jeffco three speed unit wearing a Brunodrive torque converter setup. The chassis is a double frame rail piece built by Fester Race Cars in England. Fester also did the four link and anti-roll bar amongst other construction on the automobile.

The Rolls will run down the road happily on E85, but slurps methanol once on the drag strip. The car has been on the track once, running 8.09 with just 17lbs of boost. Fester, who built the car claims that there’s enough motor to produce 2300hp and run the car deep into the 7s once it is all sorted out. We love the fact that this baby maintains all the factory dimensions and exterior trim. It is a wonderful looking car and looks far heavier than the 3050lb race weight we’ve read about.

The owner of the car has his eyes peeled on running Drag Week. We’ll keep you posted on how that plays out!

Scroll down for video of the car’s first run down the strip!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Drag Rolls! 

 


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6 thoughts on “The Romping, Stomping Rolls Royce From England With Drag Week Aspirations!

  1. Nick

    Administrator
    Posts: 35

    To be fair
    Reply #35 on : Fri September 16, 2011, 11:27:43
    Rusty has every right to post here, we need as many clicks as we can get. Chill out brothers.
    Matt
    Posts: 35

    what is going on?
    Reply #34 on : Fri September 16, 2011, 11:18:18
    Now Pee Wee posts his drivel here? Why can’t he just go away.
    PeeWeeWee
    Posts: 35

    the truth
    Reply #33 on : Fri September 16, 2011, 10:36:39
    Nah, I’m done. i I’m finally tired of ME posting here. Messin’ up a forum where I don’t belong.

    I’m very lonely. Don’t even know what you all are talking about with the car stuff, just want to post and be a part of it. I don’t get the car thing, never have.

    Folks in fancy cars are stopping in front of the house, backing up and studying the toilets real close. More than one car has done it. Folks who live in this neighborhood.

    I don’t think the toilets will last by the street all night.
    And we just noticed one of the tank lids is already gone. Somebody in this pseudo-fancy neighborhood needed a lid for their toilet tank. I guess it must have been the right color.
    Suzie and I don’t get out much.

    Yeah, for sure. Superman has a great front porch, it faces east. They can sit out there in the summer afternoons and be in the shade. Ours faces west, so our front porch is useless when the hot sun is out.

    But as an update, one of the three toilets the plumber guys replaced malfunctioned real soon, leaking water on the floor. Being of great service, they cme racing back to the scene (our house). It was a gasket or something, they fixed the water leak. No more leak problem.

    So, while they were here for the second time we had a great time drinking beer and laughing about the pile of toilets beside the street in the “fancy” neighborhood.

    I know nothing about car, not sure why I post so much.

    I’m not good enough to go on tour for any reason to start with. And after traveling for a living (work) for 8 years, I sure do love being home. I would be on a job and announce, “I’m not going to be here next week, I’ll be on vacation.”

    Right away the folks would ask, “Where are you going on your vacation?”

    Home. I had to take a vacation to be home. That’s a pretty bad way to be.

    I can only picture that’s the life of a touring musician, or anybody else stuck out on the road.

    I’ve got 3800 posts all about everything except the topic of cars. I really am not up to speed and don’t want to be a car person.

    I’m not a car guy. I’m just not. I have no clue, never will. This is a car forum – I’ve got no clue. I just can’t decide what forum I DO belong on. Mine, I guess, but I don’t know what it would be about, except just laughing about everything every time possible. And I’ve got that one going already, not a forum, though.

    Maybe I’m just a loser?
    SBG
    Posts: 35

    Re:
    Reply #32 on : Fri September 16, 2011, 10:21:52
    Funny stuff about the unobtainium Enzo – I think anyone who races a car that “irreplaceable” should immediately be inducted into the automotive hall of fame (with trophy consisting of brass balls). The fact that someone is crying about it, only makes the story more compelling.
    Just one question – if we built it once, why can’t we build another one? there’s why I couldn’t careless.

    Also, seeing the heckles being raised make this a must read column every week – don’t stop 🙂
    PeePee
    Posts: 35

    MY NAME IS RUSTY AND I TAKE IT UP THE A$$
    Reply #31 on : Fri September 16, 2011, 09:09:04
    Well it’s all pretty subjective. If the person LIKES being called whatever, that’s okay. It’s not harassment if they LIKE it. I can’t for the life of me to get hardly anybody here in TN to call me peewee. They’re all afraid. Like I might fly into a rage or something.

    I even tried it with new hires during orientation – “If you like me, call me peewee. If you don’t, call me Rusty.”

    I guess they all hated me. I couldn’t get peewee to stick. I guess I’m dressed too well. They’re scared to do it.

    And there’s another Rusty at the workplace. I get his email, his phone calls, and he gets mine. One too many Rusty’s. Dang, why can’t I just be peewee?

    Back to “if they like it”… lots of folks here have nicknames. But I can’t get mine to work. We’ve even got Sheet Rock. I don’t think anybody even knows his real name. He’s just Sheet Rock.

    Why? Because he just……………….hangs around. That’s not harassment because he LIKES it.
    Nick
    Posts: 35

    Brian Lohnes
    Reply #30 on : Fri September 16, 2011, 09:04:14
    Keep your day job, mowing lawns is working better for ya than trying so hard to be funny, you really need to re-think all this crap you post.

    Chad is at least professional.
    PeePee
    Posts: 35

    Reality
    Reply #29 on : Fri September 16, 2011, 09:01:41
    Daddy had a 40 hp bug and I am a puzzy.
    Anonymous
    Posts: 35

    Re:
    Reply #28 on : Tue September 13, 2011, 04:03:47
    They had the Lincoln Marks that were all cool cars —And they killed them because why? Dipsh%^@ in marketing dept and Accounting.
    Anonymous
    Posts: 35

    Re:
    Reply #27 on : Mon September 12, 2011, 17:40:07
    WHY DO YOU POST YOUR DAD HAD A BUG AND YOUR A PUSS. STOP ITS OLD FIND SOMETHING NEW. IF YOU DONT LIKE THE STORY DONT READ IT. IF YOU WANTED TO BE A FACT FINDER OR AND EDITOR ASK FOR THE JOB. UNTIL THEN ALL YOU NOSE PICKERS NEED TO GO AWAY.
    50tbrd88
    Posts: 35

    Re:
    Reply #26 on : Mon September 12, 2011, 13:49:58
    I hope they DO save Lincoln and do something like GM has done with Cadillac the last few years. We have seen enough brands die off the last few years!

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