![]() '86 feature, Gray Baskerville wrote, "the jay-too-grand started and ran like a stocker, the water temp gauge rarely reached the 190-degree mark." It's still amazing. And the whole thing was covered in more chrome and polished stainless steel than you'll see in 99.9 percent of show cars today, 35 years later. The car had a 930 cc engine (56.7 cubic inches) that. European manufacturers are pushing their engines to the limit. Here’s what we know from the automaker: It’s rated at 395 horsepower and 406 lb-ft of. But what made it even crazier was a single 1,050-cfm Holley Dominator feeding a pair of Roto-Master turbochargers, which fed twin MagnaCharger Roots blowers, all helped out with a one-off, 20-port NOS nitrous system and a water/alcohol injection system. In the late 1980s, Nissan developed a twincharged car, which was based on the little Micra, a model that was also sold under the March name. Indeed, we heard a while back that these new I6s could replace the V6 engines used across the JLR family. ![]() An all-aluminum, 350ci small-block was certainly not commonplace in 1986, and neither were the 1,500 man-hours of polishing on the car. In the context of history, we'll argue it's still the wildest. In a car that took every one of his resources and nearly three years of his life to build, Dobbertin went with by far the wildest engine anyone had ever seen up to that time. But when thinking about this month's Where It All Began, in an issue devoted to outrageous engines, one image from the past stood out: the Chevy in Dobbertin's Pontiac. '08), so to rehash the car here is unnecessary. We have often discussed Rick Dobbertin's game-changing, Pro Street Pontiac J2000 that was HOT ROD of the Year in 1986 (and named by us as one of the Top 100 Most Significant Hot Rods of All Time in Jan.
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