Talking about drooling. What a beautiful sight to wake up to.
I'll say it should be a "bit" of fun when its sorted out
I LOVE stuff like this. 96lb injectors huh. That should easily support 800 horsepower. And being fuel injected is really SMART.
I was going to but my motor is an "odd" fire kind of like a Harley where the sequence isn't spaced evenly. With a 6 you have to have it odd fire OR splay the the rod journals like on a Grand National motor. The GN motors are good for around 550HP Max as the block just won't stay stable above that. The Stage II motor I have has the same outer diminsions but has 14 head studs instead of 8 and 4 bolt mains and is VERY heavy. 30 lbs heavier than the GN. I was watching a 3600 lb GN in fall. He had an Even fire Stage II and was running mid 8's. My buddy told me that the motor was a little over a thousand horsepower.
As far as the price. To build this motor from scratch would cost around 28,000. What I came across was a guy who was running it in a sprint car and crashed it while it was still pretty new, less than 40 laps. He totaled the car and got seriously hurt. He got out of racing and I purchased the motor. Because its an odd fire it can't be Injected (easily anyway) so it won't really be good for a Grand National. The good news on the odd fire is that its the only engine that I can remember the firing order of it 654321 and its stronger than the even fire as the rod journals are siamesed like a v8. Its got a very novel sound at idle. Like two Harleys sitting next to each other idling.
It was designed for NASCAR and Indy racing so it will take a LOT of horsepower. But the only way for me to go if I want to get up near what you guys are doing would be Nitrous. That would be fun but I'd rather have it run low to mid 10's on the motor (at least for now anyway
Besides I should be able to be "very competitive" at the Run & Gun in the 4/6 cylinder class...
Back to your motor, you really seem to have done a very nice job. I like your choices on everything. Good job mate...
Regards,