John Williams, Sunbelt Preformance & Classic Motorsports Mag.

[Carl Beck]

Interesting article in the Nov. Classic Motorsports Magazine, on their Z Car project. Engine rebuilt by Sunbelt Performance, Balanced Performance Motorsports and John Williams in Atlanta, GA.

Stock L24 started at 134 HP at the rear wheels... and 169 HP after the rebuild....

FWIW,

Carl B.

[Linkstar07]

I'd definately like to hear more about this... They have a website?

[DeesZ]

A quick Google search turned this up... drill in a bit and you'll even see a Z...

http://www.balancedperformance.com/index.html

[Carl Beck]

See:

http://www.classicmotorsports.net/news.php?cat=14

FWIW,

Carl B.

[xray]

That has been out for awhile...I used their experience to solidify my purchase of the MSA 6-1 header and new exhaust back in October.

[Carl Beck]

....and the reason you didn't share it with the rest of us at that time....is??.....

[bigoak]

My bad...I saw it too...really, really good magazine though. A classic car mag not solely focussed on $1M Ferraris....

[e_racer1999]

i saw it yesterday...

[xray]

....and the reason you didn't share it with the rest of us at that time....is??.....

1) They've been on that build for about a year, so it's not really a "new" article

2) Maybe you missed my thread.

http://www.classiczcars.com/forums/showthread.php?t=28266&highlight=msa+header

Someone brought attention to that CM issue in an earlier thread (which I can't find right at the moment), so I went and read the article, bought the issue and decided to give it a go.

[bigoak]

Oh yeah...was pretty sure CB was omnipotent and all-knowing...so why point it out...

[gnosez]

Too often we throw around HP numbers (stock by year and model) and it was nice to see their dyno rwhp numbers for an L24 engine in stock mode. Not bad for a car that listed as having 150hp@crank.

For me, that means I've added 117 more rwhp with my NA 3.2L L28 in a '72. A turbo would likely done better but I like the sound of the triple 44mms as they open up and the quick response time from foot to foot pounds.

[Carl Beck]

1) They've been on that build for about a year, so it's not really a "new" article

2) Maybe you missed my thread.

http://www.classiczcars.com/forums/showthread.php?t=28266&highlight=msa+header

Someone brought attention to that CM issue in an earlier thread (which I can't find right at the moment), so I went and read the article, bought the issue and decided to give it a go.

Hi Steven:

It wasn't the "project" that caught my attention - it was more specifically Sunbelt Performance and John Williams. Some of us know John, and were just talking about his driving etc at the recent ARRC...

Sunbelt Performance and John did the rebuild and restoration on my BRE Z's engine...

Sorry to say I did miss your earlier thread about the exhaust system... I'm sure I would have followed it had I seen it. I owned/operated a muffler shop for a couple years... built a lot of exhaust systems for Z's in the mid-70's... Glad to see that MSA seems to have improved theirs...

FWIW,

Carl