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Originally Posted by JID
Ted -
believe me, i'd love to see a ported-head ROE car that makes over 770. hell, i'd like to see one that makes over 750. In fact, breaking that 700 barrier on a ROE w/o NOS seems impossible to me so far. And I've built a couple to try!
JD
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Actually, Joe Donovan tuned 3 different Roe cars without nitrous all over 700 rwhp just last weekend. The highest was around 719 rwhp, but the car still had cats on it and had 3.55 gears. If he would remove the cats and put the 3.07 gears put back in, the car would likely be over 740 rwhp.
Jerry Colpitts made 748 rwhp on a Roe with heads/cam.
Those are all pump gas and water/methanol cars. All factory bottom ends (except Jerry's which is a stock displacement Arrow rebuild).
750 rwhp on a Roe is not impossible. It just requires the right parts and a good tune.
That being said, I have yet to see an 800 rwhp Roe car without NOS.
My car is a just a bolt on Roe kit with headers/exhaust/intake/rockers and water/methanol. No head work. No throttle bodies. 10# of boost. It made 630/675 and went 10.43 @ 147 on drag radials.
I've seen cars that make a lot more power not run the times. I've run centrifugal cars making 70+ rwhp more than me and can throw them a beating from a dig or a slow roll up to about 140 mph when the big hp gives them the ability to come around me. But if most of your driving/racing is done from stoplight to stoplight (in a controlled environment, far far away from any populace) or done at the drag strip, a Roe is a great setup for the money.