Thu, 09/12/2019 - 10:08

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Mast
ENDYN Founder Larry Widmer will take the reins of Mast’s newly established race cylinder head services division while continuing to run ENDYN’s day-to-day operations.

Mast Motorsports Completes Merger With ENDYN

To broaden its portfolio of engine components and services, Mast Motorsports has completed a merger with Ft. Worth, Texas-based cylinder head and induction specialist ENDYN (Energy Dynamics). In the past, the two companies have worked closely together to co-develop ENDYN’s all-new Honda cylinder heads. By leveraging ENDYN’s 60-plus years of race-engine development with Mast Motorsports’ engineering and manufacturing capabilities, this endeavor is intended to bring performance and quality to Mast’s new race cylinder head services division. As part of the merger, ENDYN will relocate its current Ft. Worth facility to Mast Motorsports’ all-new 22,000 sq.-ft. cylinder head R&D campus in Nacogdoches, Texas. ENDYN Founder Larry Widmer will take the reins of Mast’s newly established race cylinder head services division while continuing to run ENDYN’s day-to-day operations.

For more racing news, visit Performance Racing Industry’s (PRI) website.

Thu, 09/12/2019 - 09:35

McLaren

McLaren is understood to be readying a faster, lighter “Long Tail” version of the 720S for launch next year, and a new prototype caught testing appears to confirm that.

Although this test mule looks at first to be a standard 720S with some modifications, tell-tale cues including “gurney” flaps and a substantially larger front splitter. Although the traditional Long Tail extended rear end—found on models such as the current 600LT—doesn’t feature in this early mule, the extended spoiler plastered in tape suggests engineers are testing for such bodywork modifications prior to completing them.

McLaren is yet to confirm whether or not it’ll use the 750LT name for the Long Tail model, but earlier this year CEO Mike Flewitt said that the power gain from S to LT will be “at least” as much as that which turned the 570S into the 600LT. As such, a 750hp figure is expected.

However, he also stated that engineers have been struggling to shed the 100 kg now expected of LT models “because we made the 720S as light as we could in the first place.” It’s expected McLaren will still be capable of removing a meaningful amount of weight, however.

A production limit has yet to be decided for the model, which could arrive in the middle of next year. “Part of me wants to keep it open as Porsche does with its GT models,” said Flewitt, “but we might limit it to something like 750 of each [coupé and Spider].”

McLaren

Photo credit: Brian Williams, SpiedBilde

Thu, 09/12/2019 - 09:35

McLaren

McLaren is understood to be readying a faster, lighter “Long Tail” version of the 720S for launch next year, and a new prototype caught testing appears to confirm that.

Although this test mule looks at first to be a standard 720S with some modifications, tell-tale cues including “gurney” flaps and a substantially larger front splitter. Although the traditional Long Tail extended rear end—found on models such as the current 600LT—doesn’t feature in this early mule, the extended spoiler plastered in tape suggests engineers are testing for such bodywork modifications prior to completing them.

McLaren is yet to confirm whether or not it’ll use the 750LT name for the Long Tail model, but earlier this year CEO Mike Flewitt said that the power gain from S to LT will be “at least” as much as that which turned the 570S into the 600LT. As such, a 750hp figure is expected.

However, he also stated that engineers have been struggling to shed the 100 kg now expected of LT models “because we made the 720S as light as we could in the first place.” It’s expected McLaren will still be capable of removing a meaningful amount of weight, however.

A production limit has yet to be decided for the model, which could arrive in the middle of next year. “Part of me wants to keep it open as Porsche does with its GT models,” said Flewitt, “but we might limit it to something like 750 of each [coupé and Spider].”

McLaren

Photo credit: Brian Williams, SpiedBilde

Thu, 09/12/2019 - 09:35

McLaren

McLaren is understood to be readying a faster, lighter “Long Tail” version of the 720S for launch next year, and a new prototype caught testing appears to confirm that.

Although this test mule looks at first to be a standard 720S with some modifications, tell-tale cues including “gurney” flaps and a substantially larger front splitter. Although the traditional Long Tail extended rear end—found on models such as the current 600LT—doesn’t feature in this early mule, the extended spoiler plastered in tape suggests engineers are testing for such bodywork modifications prior to completing them.

McLaren is yet to confirm whether or not it’ll use the 750LT name for the Long Tail model, but earlier this year CEO Mike Flewitt said that the power gain from S to LT will be “at least” as much as that which turned the 570S into the 600LT. As such, a 750hp figure is expected.

However, he also stated that engineers have been struggling to shed the 100 kg now expected of LT models “because we made the 720S as light as we could in the first place.” It’s expected McLaren will still be capable of removing a meaningful amount of weight, however.

A production limit has yet to be decided for the model, which could arrive in the middle of next year. “Part of me wants to keep it open as Porsche does with its GT models,” said Flewitt, “but we might limit it to something like 750 of each [coupé and Spider].”

McLaren

Photo credit: Brian Williams, SpiedBilde

Thu, 09/12/2019 - 09:35

McLaren

McLaren is understood to be readying a faster, lighter “Long Tail” version of the 720S for launch next year, and a new prototype caught testing appears to confirm that.

Although this test mule looks at first to be a standard 720S with some modifications, tell-tale cues including “gurney” flaps and a substantially larger front splitter. Although the traditional Long Tail extended rear end—found on models such as the current 600LT—doesn’t feature in this early mule, the extended spoiler plastered in tape suggests engineers are testing for such bodywork modifications prior to completing them.

McLaren is yet to confirm whether or not it’ll use the 750LT name for the Long Tail model, but earlier this year CEO Mike Flewitt said that the power gain from S to LT will be “at least” as much as that which turned the 570S into the 600LT. As such, a 750hp figure is expected.

However, he also stated that engineers have been struggling to shed the 100 kg now expected of LT models “because we made the 720S as light as we could in the first place.” It’s expected McLaren will still be capable of removing a meaningful amount of weight, however.

A production limit has yet to be decided for the model, which could arrive in the middle of next year. “Part of me wants to keep it open as Porsche does with its GT models,” said Flewitt, “but we might limit it to something like 750 of each [coupé and Spider].”

McLaren

Photo credit: Brian Williams, SpiedBilde

Thu, 09/12/2019 - 09:35

McLaren

McLaren is understood to be readying a faster, lighter “Long Tail” version of the 720S for launch next year, and a new prototype caught testing appears to confirm that.

Although this test mule looks at first to be a standard 720S with some modifications, tell-tale cues including “gurney” flaps and a substantially larger front splitter. Although the traditional Long Tail extended rear end—found on models such as the current 600LT—doesn’t feature in this early mule, the extended spoiler plastered in tape suggests engineers are testing for such bodywork modifications prior to completing them.

McLaren is yet to confirm whether or not it’ll use the 750LT name for the Long Tail model, but earlier this year CEO Mike Flewitt said that the power gain from S to LT will be “at least” as much as that which turned the 570S into the 600LT. As such, a 750hp figure is expected.

However, he also stated that engineers have been struggling to shed the 100 kg now expected of LT models “because we made the 720S as light as we could in the first place.” It’s expected McLaren will still be capable of removing a meaningful amount of weight, however.

A production limit has yet to be decided for the model, which could arrive in the middle of next year. “Part of me wants to keep it open as Porsche does with its GT models,” said Flewitt, “but we might limit it to something like 750 of each [coupé and Spider].”

McLaren

Photo credit: Brian Williams, SpiedBilde

Thu, 09/12/2019 - 09:35

McLaren

McLaren is understood to be readying a faster, lighter “Long Tail” version of the 720S for launch next year, and a new prototype caught testing appears to confirm that.

Although this test mule looks at first to be a standard 720S with some modifications, tell-tale cues including “gurney” flaps and a substantially larger front splitter. Although the traditional Long Tail extended rear end—found on models such as the current 600LT—doesn’t feature in this early mule, the extended spoiler plastered in tape suggests engineers are testing for such bodywork modifications prior to completing them.

McLaren is yet to confirm whether or not it’ll use the 750LT name for the Long Tail model, but earlier this year CEO Mike Flewitt said that the power gain from S to LT will be “at least” as much as that which turned the 570S into the 600LT. As such, a 750hp figure is expected.

However, he also stated that engineers have been struggling to shed the 100 kg now expected of LT models “because we made the 720S as light as we could in the first place.” It’s expected McLaren will still be capable of removing a meaningful amount of weight, however.

A production limit has yet to be decided for the model, which could arrive in the middle of next year. “Part of me wants to keep it open as Porsche does with its GT models,” said Flewitt, “but we might limit it to something like 750 of each [coupé and Spider].”

McLaren

Photo credit: Brian Williams, SpiedBilde

Thu, 09/12/2019 - 09:30

Ron Cambra has always had a love for anything on wheels. He’s built everything from motorcycles to hot rods to mini trucks and everything in between. He’d been customizing cars in and out of his home garage for years and recently opened up the Cambra Speed Shop in Orange, California. His current project that he is bringing to the SEMA Show is a completely custom ’55 classic car build. Powered by an all-aluminum LS7 427 small block, “Roxanne” is gracefully putting out around 750 hp.

Thu, 09/12/2019 - 09:30

Ron Cambra has always had a love for anything on wheels. He’s built everything from motorcycles to hot rods to mini trucks and everything in between. He’d been customizing cars in and out of his home garage for years and recently opened up the Cambra Speed Shop in Orange, California. His current project that he is bringing to the SEMA Show is a completely custom ’55 classic car build. Powered by an all-aluminum LS7 427 small block, “Roxanne” is gracefully putting out around 750 hp.

Thu, 09/12/2019 - 09:25

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