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Thats Bennnet French, I know him, he up the road about 50 miles from me. He raced a vintage Bugeye for a short time, and has been around LBCs most of his adult life. I give him a E for effort, I never saw the need to advertise a race motor in Ebay :smile:, and doubt it is a very sucessful method of marketing. For this kind of moeny you can let someone build one that has done it a few more times, don't get me wrong, I'm not putting Bennett down, just think this is a ridiculous approach, and yes it cost about that much to build a competitive 948 race engine, and for that price you should get 16.0 to 1 compression, and a dry sump. Seriously racing a 948 these days is a joke, most vintage bodies are now letting you go with a 1275, and that avenue makes a bunch more sense.

I'd build that samne engine for about 4000 less, not like anyone is going to call you on that, I hate racing 948s, no guts to them. Fiquire a a good 1275 race motor with Carrillo/Pauter rods, using a stock, but worked crank would run a good $9K out of my shop, and most of that fiquire is parts.

Here's a stroker 1275 vintage engine I'm working on right now with a Fardon billet crank, 6" Carrillo rods.
 

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It would be good for nothing but all-out racing on 114 leaded racing gas, a engine like that would idle below 2500 rpms, it's made to do one thing,and one thing only. Kim, why you think I learned to build my own race engines :smile:

When I raced a Huffaker 948 Bugeye in SCCA HP, I would shift it at 9000-9200 rpm, the gearbox was $5K, then, more now, you would literally never get below 5500 rpm from the pace lap to the you came off the track, the goal would be to not let the rpms drop below 6000 at race speeds. I can't say I was a big fan of them (I drove the car for the owner, not my money) had no torque, you had to keep the thing wound up all the tiem, crack the throotle and it fell on it face, the 1275 race engine were so much more fun.
 
I guess its like racing anything else, its just really expensive. When I lived in England one of my neighbors spent over 9K US for a Harris motorcycle frame. A whole lot of money for 40 pounds of aluminum and titanium in my opinion. Harris was the ablsoute best back then but still hard to justify for a lot of folks unless that is what you are obsessed with, then they got to have it. I don't want to much in my toys, that way I won't cry as hard when something liek that incedent with the F150 happens.
 
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