Man alive! When we first watched this video of a Competition Eliminator car running in Oslo, Norway, we rubbed our eyes and watched again. Sporting a 297ci Ford motor, a tach that starts at 6,000 rpm, and a driver that can really row the Liberty 5-speed, this Ford Probe is off the charts awesome. Hell, the guy takes the car to 10,000 rpm during the burnout!
We hunted around for some photos of the outside of the car and it seems like this was once a Motorcraft sponsored entry, judging from the paint scheme. Either that or the owner is a big Ford nut and decided to paint his car like one of the Motorcraft schemed machines in tribute. Who gives a crap about the paint anyway?
Listen to the all-out fury that this little motor screams all the way down the track. The clutch is dumped at 10,000 and the needle goes over center more than a little during the lap so we’re thinking that 11,000 rpm is being realized at the finish line when the shift light is hopelessly pleading for another gear.
BangShifting is international, this video rules.
PRESS PLAY BELOW AND CRANK THE SPEAKERS TO HEAR THIS 11,000 RPM BUZZ SAW WORK –
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That is one unholy shriek!
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Cut and paste!
Damn that thing sure sounds bigger than 297CI! 11K RPM burnout! OMG!
Does this place have editors? Lhones keeps calling RUNS down the dragstrip LAPS. How can a straight line race have LAPS? Dudes this is a Drag racing site at it’s heart and your writers don’t even know that they are RUNS not laps.
Not sure if troll or not…
Dude, you start in the pits, drive around to the starline, race up the track then around the other end back to the pits, it is really a lap, chill 😉
try this
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uNcc_dhrWbU
Thanks for the link rp66, that driver is definitely not afraid to to rev that thing, does it drop below 10,000 RPMs after he lets the clutch out? Sounds really intense during the run, AWESOME