The Junkyard runs 11.99@117 on a 140hp $90 Dodge Caravan motor from the junkyard. First pass.

Add turbo system to a motor that makes 140hp at the crankshaft. E85 fuel. PT6765 turbo. 16 pounds of boost.
stock heads, stock cams, stock headgasket, stock shortblock, stock naturally aspirated ECU. No tune. Rising Rate regulator for fuel and Methanol injection.
Car was finished the night before racing and the junkyard water pump locked up on the freeway and had to be changed in the Home Depot Parking lot so we could make it to the race track. Got booted because the junk motor had a camshaft seal oil leak. Instead of fixing the oil leak. I built an oil catch pan (required for 11 second cars at our track in the next race season anyways) so i would not have to repair the oil leak. I was not going to spend money fixing this cheap junk motor. Great Depression Racing

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[Xellos357]

thats one shitty ass camera! i wish i could actually see something!

[GreatDepressionRace]

@Xellos357 He had it on night mode during the middle of the day and I was a bit disappointed when it came time to edit.

[1piperpilot]

Impressive work on the motor. But here's a newsflash for you: Carbon deposits in motors have been since motors have been invented, long before Al Gore was even born. I've been working on cars since the 70's. If anything, I've been finding less carbor deposits lately on comperable mileage motors because of more accurate fuel metering. F*** Earth Day? Have you seen the explosion of asthma cases in this country? Maybe the Earth is saying F*** YOU!

[GreatDepressionRace]

@1piperpilot You might have missed a joke or 2 and didn't know whether or not the builder suffers any asthma symptoms. ADHD cases have also exploded. There was no such thing as some of these illnesses 50 years ago. Does that mean something went wrong with humans in the last 50 years, or that we either overdiagnose an illness, or diagnose a normal thing as abnormal. Have we become obsessed with being victims? 70's motors have some terrible emissions devices, worse into the 80's for v8

[o56kid]

how much crap do you think is floating through your oil galleys from dremeling??

[GreatDepressionRace]

@o56kid Well, with the valves all closed, which tends to happen to a hydraulic lifter motor with over 100k miles, something would have to get past the closed valves, past all 3 pison rings, past the oil pickup screen, and then past the oil filter. How worried am I about a motor that cost $90? Not so much. Do I have a nice set of heads and motor? Yes. Took them out to put this in. Now I am having fun with stock shortblocks and I am working on finishing a new cylinder head setup for a stock block

[ImaYam]

One word: Hell fuckin yeaH!

[secondlife2]

i bet that guy in the srt4 was pissed

[ORIANA250]

sweet, its fun to see a piece of junk run faster times than most nice cars, lol.

[MrReworx]

That makes me smile :)

[JeremiahCardin]

@firefoxx04 You can do it I have seen it done with a 3.8 which is very similar to the 3.3 and all three engines the 3.0 the3.3 and the 3.8 were all made to take turbo's and other performance parts and the 3.3,s are faster stock I raced my 91 grand caravan 3.3 against a 99 caravan with the 3.0 and the 91 won my grand caravan with the 3.3 will run the 1/4 mile in 15.6 seconds stock with all the seats and all in place all 3 rows so I could see it pushing a little light duster in about 11 seconds

[firefoxx04]

@JeremiahCardin okay. so your prefer a chain instead of a belt but that dosnt make the engine worse. i have 94000 original miles with stock belt and water pump still kicking strong. it might not be what you prefer but it works damn good and has yet to let me down.

again, lets see you put 16psi through the 3.3 and run an 11 second pass your first try (with stock block and heads)

[JeremiahCardin]

@firefoxx04 No contest, the 3.3 is a better engine. No timing belt (chain), easier to find parts for, great reputation for clocking up the miles w/o problems. The 3.0 is a Mitsubishi engine w/overhead cam design. The early 3.0's were known for the exhaust valve guides coming loose in the heads after that the seals fail & they drink oil. they also have a weird set up for the water pump w/ a tube that runs through the "valley" between the heads & under the intake manifold..

[JeremiahCardin]

@JeremiahCardin Fast doesn't make the 3.0 a better motor reliability does and the 3.0 has a timing belt instead of a chain like the 3.3 and 3.8 and for the mom that needs good power and reliability than the 3.3 and 3.8 are the way to go no body ever has the timing belts checked and they do break

[firefoxx04]

@JeremiahCardin actually your wrong. the mitsu block is a iron block and the heads are made of aluminum. as for the 3.3 and 3.8 being better motors, your still wrong. lets see the 3.3 push a duster down the track and make an 11 second pass with stock crank, rods, pistons, and cams.