There are lots of unique slingshot dragsters out there but we’re for sure this is the only one in the world that runs down the track with power provided by a nitro drinking Jeep straight six engine. The car was built with the intention of promoting the sellers fuel injection business, but other stuff has prevent him from getting it out onto the race track with regularity so he is selling it to someone who will.
The chassis is a 4130 Chrome moly piece that is certified to 7.50 in the quarter-mile. It has Aerospace Components brakes and a pile of other top shelf parts light a lightweight Strange 9-inch rear end, and Sander engineering rear wheels that weight 12lbs a piece. The whole car weights 1209lbs when in race ready condition.
The engine was built by Hesco Engineering, a company apparently tasked by Chrysler to turn the Jeep six into a racing engine for different forms of competition. On top of a modified block rests a billet aluminum head with 2.02 intake and 1.60 exhaust valves. It is not a cross flow design as the hilborn stacks and zoomie pipes are both on the same side. According to the seller the engine makes 575hp on straight alky and 700hp with a 30% load of nitro in the tank. We’d run it on (at least) 30% at all times just out of principle.
It will go bottom eights and maybe quicker when the dragster is totally sorted and the car will sound like nothing else in the world screaming down the track with the header flames licking out of the pipes!
RacingJunk Find:A Nitro Drinking Jeep Straight Six Powered Slingshot
I like it. Not just because of the inline AMC six, but because it’s a new chassis that actually looks like diggers did in the 60’s. Most new “nostalgia” dragsters look nothing like the real slingshots.
And my dad drove a ’65 Volkswagen. 40 horse. No wonder I turned out to be a pussy.