Targa High Country 2019

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And I nearly went last year!! Bugger I missed this racing 450SEL & maybe the opportunity to look under the hood... Sounds like a manual trans too!!

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Under the hood... Hopefully better images to come later this week...

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5.3, Carillo rods and pistons, heads tweaked, cams, multi throttle bodies, exhaust, elec water pump+++. T5 dog box with sequential shifter, Ve diff with Kaaz lsd
 
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Cranks did machining, Speedworks did heads. Tighe cams...
 
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I’m dropping by their shop on Friday...
 
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Saw this car in person today & spoke with the lovely owner! Simply amazing work!! I can’t detail too much, as the guy is quite private...

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And quite the engineer, nice work.
 
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Apparently 440hp!!! So based on similar achievable efficiency could we not assume a 560 could make 460hp & a 6.9 540hp? I intend to test the theory....
 
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