Spectre Performance Announces Hill Climb Road Race

May 19th, 2011 Comments Off Posted in General

Spectre Performance Announces Hill Climb Road Race Spectre Performance 341 Challenge Entries Pouring In The folks at Spectre are telling us their getting plenty of entries for their 2nd annual event, but there’s still room. Want to represent the Blue Oval?

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THE NURBURGRING OF NEVADA

February 9th, 2011 Comments Off Posted in General

THE NURBURGRING OF NEVADA The fastest cars and bravest drivers in North America are heading back to Virginia City, Nevada, for the second running of the Spectre 341 Challenge – a hill climb road race on one of the most thrilling mountain roads in the world (nicknamed the Nurburgring of Nevada). After a stellar turnout at the inaugural event that included world-famous drivers and high-profile coverage, the 2011 event promises to be even better, with a variety of fast cars and fun new activities. The race, set amidst the old-west mining town of Virginia City, Nevada, is held on a mountain road closed to the public for the event and is open to all street legal high-performance vehicles, and is set for June 17-19, 2011.

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1968 Ford Torino GT Spectre Performance Cold Air Induction Performance Enhancer

August 30th, 2010 Comments Off Posted in General, Motorcraft Gas Engine

1968 Ford Torino GT Spectre Performance Cold Air Induction Performance Enhancer
1968 Ford Torino GT Spectre Performance Cold Air Induction Performance Enhancer - Modified Mustangs & Fords
Bring Performance Enhancing Cold Air To Your Ford Engine With Spectre Performance

Tech | Cold Air Induction System Install
It’s no secret that on our classic Ford cars the factory passenger car air cleaner assembly wasn’t designed for maximum horsepower. Rather, a major consideration in the factory design was intake noise suppression. Some factory designed air cleaners came with an open element to reduce intake restriction, but this still doesn’t address the issue of engine-heated air being drawn into the carburetor. An open element design will draw the same hot air that the factory enclosed unit will (just more of it) and for this story we wanted to know if getting colder air into our engine would make a difference on a popular classic small-block Ford. Our ‘68 Torino GT is an original F-code 302 2V-equipped vehicle with a factory style air cleaner, stock exhaust manifolds, and single exhaust; a good representative of a basic Ford small-block project car. It has a C4 three-speed automatic transmission and an 8-inch axle with 2.79 gears. Other than a 500 cfm Edelbrock four-barrel carb and Performer 302 intake manifold, the engine is completely stock. The cam is so mild that it noses over at 4,200 rpm, but the car idles in gear like a sewing machine. With the mild cam and single exhaust it’s difficult to hear the engine running inside the car. It’s the perfect passenger car engine found in many Ford cars of the era. It was made to idle for hours in Manhattan traffic if need be. Our car was factory rated at 200 horsepower at the engine.

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