Friday 28th May 2004

GT: More Power

Monaro and Corvette to benefit from better breathing as restrictor rules relaxed

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Recent revisions by the technical team behind the British GT Championship will allow a number of cars greater levels of power for the forthcoming Snetterton rounds of the championship.

Series scrutineer Chris Mount has allowed restrictor modifications to the Vauxhall Monaro of Emotional Engineering and the Chevrolet Corvette C5Rs of Embassy Racing and Xero Competition.

The Monaro's restrictor size is to be increased by two places on the FIA chart, whilst the Corvettes will benefit from a restrictor size increase of one place. The effect will be to allow the cars more power and the teams hope that they will be more competitive as a result.

[pauly]

And what about the TVR´s restrictors??

[jagsy]

At last chance to let the 427 breath.

[zebedee]

The TVRs look to have enough grunt already - the F360 of Scuderia Ecosse perhaps has too much??!!!

The Monaro was way down on pace and the Corvettes were struggling too - hopefully this should see Embassy and Xero battling for honours throughout the season instead of picking up where Porsche, TVR and Ferrari fail.

Whats the reference to a 427? All the enhanced cars run 5.7 litres as far as I'm aware - which is not quite a 427...

[jagsy]

I thought they ran the 427 engine - I may be wrong.

[Boosted LS1]

jagsy said:

I thought they ran the 427 engine - I may be wrong.

Wasn't that the stroker engine used in the Le Mans car?

[top fuel]

zebedee said:

Whats the reference to a 427? All the enhanced cars run 5.7 litres as far as I'm aware - which is not quite a 427...

427 Cubic Inches relates to 7000ccs. The British GT cars have 5700cc engines.

Le Mans cars in the past have had the full 6995cc jobbie tho.