Drag Week competitor Clark Rosenstengel is stepping up his game in a major league way for Drag Week 2013 and we have video evidence! In 2012 Clark raced his 2010 Camaro in the Street Race small block naturally aspirated class but didn’t finish the week. He’s ditching out of the whole naturally aspirated deal with the engine shown in the video below which is a romping, stomping, LS3 packing twin turbos, a Holley high-ram intake, Holley EFI, Hooker cast exhaust manifolds, and more than 1,200hp at the flywheel on the dyno at Steve Morris racing engines. That 1,200hp and more than 1,000 lb/ft of torque was achieved with a mere 17 psi of boost. If the wick got turned higher, the mill would make even more! The engine sports worked over factory heads and uses a factory block so we’re not sure how much more, but jeez, Clark is really preparing for some heavy iron in that SB/SS-PA category and we’re guessing he’s not the only guy that will be showing up with a pair of turbos to do battle with.
This is a cool video because Morris takes us on a guided tour of the engine before making a low boost pull at 10psi. He then goes through the dyno results and cranks the motor again, this time with the 17+ psi. He spins it to 7,000 RPM on each occasion. Granted, we may be completely out of our tree, but when does the conversation start about the LS series of engines being the greatest hot rodding mills of all time begin? While I like LS motors, I am not a complete fan boy like a bearded friend of mine is, so the previous statement wasn’t made by someone wearing LS footy pajamas. I think it is a legit question, especially when you see what this one is doing on a relatively stock foundation.
We dig the fact that this engine uses Holley products to get the air and fuel in, light it off, and then spit its spent gasses out. That’s a complete system from front to back and you can have the same stuff. It is on the shelf and ready to go! Operators are standing by! Seriously though, Drag Week is the ultimate test of man and ragged edge street machine. We’re pumped to get a glimpse of Clark’s completed ride!
PRESS PLAY BELOW TO SEE STEVE MORRIS HAMMER A DRAG WEEK 2013 TURBO LS MILL ON HIS DYNO!
“[W]hen does the conversation start about the LS series of engines being the greatest hot rodding mills of all time begin?”
Every time the “Government Motors” checks and freebee parts arrive in the hands of influential rodding journalists.
Any number of high-dollar turbo mills have crested the 1,200 h.p. mark . . . many long before the LESS fad took hold.
Fact is that the LESS has never won a NASCAR Cup race. It has never won an NHRA Pro Stock. AA/FC or Top Fuel race. It has never won a Formula One race. It has never won an Indy Car race. It’s not the first choice of most grassroots sprint car/dirt track racers. And its had spotty success in highly modified ($$$$$) form (with huge “help” from the rules packages) in endurance sports car racing. Hardly legendary.
The LESS also didn’t start any new segments of the aftermarket or cause any great innovations in how business is done. It merely coasts on the inertia built up by earlier generations of the SBC.
While it’s certainly popular at the moment (mainly because of breathless “journalism,” JY cheapness (the crappy OEM vehicles in which it’s installed seem to end up parted out on a regular basis), factory parts dumping, and aftermarket oversupport), it’s hardly the most significant hot rod/racing mill of all time.
“The most significant hot rod/racing mill of all time” no way, I agree with you there. The cheapest way to build big reliable power, yup! Everyone learned the “fast.cheap.reliable, pick any 2” adage when they first got into this hobby. It’s been tested and proven many times in the past. The LS platform is the first to give you all 3. It’s forged its own reputation. The SBC coattail is too full dragging along the LT1/4.
Way to go Clark! To bad I will be in your class
Why isn’t he running the water pump? No belt on it….Seems Odd.