Troy's '85 Magna

The engine in this beast was built by Scott Sach (who's an owner of 4sum fun magna powered Suziki hatch drag car). Troy no longer owns it, but it was a 2.6L 5 speed, bored 40 through with ACL Duralite flat top pistons. It had Sigma manually adjustable rocker gear, chrysler 360 valves, Gemini balance shaft tensioners, massive head work, speco thomas billet camshaft, a late model sigma twin weber inlet manifold modified to fit the Magna, twin 48mm side draught dellorto carbies and a 2.5" stainless muffler. The car also had custom water piping and home-made extractors.

Only running the standard fuel pump it would rev to 7500rpm - but Troy says it should have revved to 8500 or more with a decent pump. In 2nd gear running at 7500rpm it would do 125kmh, and the same revs in 3rd gear it could get to 175kms with 2 more gears to go! Due to the carbies being poorly tuned, the car eventually spun a bearing and cracked the head in 2 places, so Troy sold all the engine goodies and got rid of the car. He says with the right fuel and a carby tune, it may have hit 200kmh in 3rd gear.

Troy remembers the engine to be "damn awesome". He claims to have not had any troubles with HSV's or XR6's, and he passed his mates Celica 1800 turbo intercooled in 3rd gear at 170k's and left him behind.