Two Modern Day Interpretations of 60's Retro Cool.

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Chip, I'm a fan of the Ford GT and it is great to see that machine with the CB1100 in your pics, excellent! Considering the expertise you have shared with your upgrades to the CB1100, I'll bet the Ford GT has some Chip Mods ™ as well! My hat is off to you, sir!

CB400,

Kind of like my experience with the CB11, when I bought the GT I told myself that I'm going to leave it stock!!! No mods. Within a month I started to crack. Hey, a pulley and tune will bump it from 550 to 650 HP and that would be OK. Then, how about getting rid of that giant muffler for something lighter and better sounding. The rear bumper delete looks really good. How about all of the carbon fiber parts too. Short shifter, trans cooler, 3-way adjustable Penski gas nitrogen coil-overs will make it handle better, Hoosier R-6 DOT street legal (barely) race slicks, and it went on and on. Pretty soon my stock GT was in boxes in my storage room. But the biggest change came when I started racing the standing mile. A stock GT (supercharged) has 550 HP and puts about 500 to the rear wheels. That will propel you to 170+ MPH in the standing mile. Replacing the stock supercharger with a 4.0L Whipple Supercharger will get you to 200 MPH in the standing mile. But I went all the way by removing my supercharger and having a one of a kind twin-turbo system installed by Heffner Performance and improved 2 years later by Guyett Performance in Fresno, California. Two 64mm billet wheel, ceramic bearing, air cooled, Precision Turbos feed my Accufab built 5.4 liter Ford GT engine 2 gallons of C-16 116 octane race fuel a minute at full throttle. On the dyno my yellow GT now puts 1146 HP to the rear wheels, about 1350 HP at the crank. My best Texas Mile result so far is 220.1 MPH, the run took 24.5 seconds. The last photo below was taken as I crossed the finish line. That was a thrill, 0 to over 220 MPH in under 25 seconds. It would take a couple volumes to detail all of the "Chip Beck Spec" items on the yellow car. Cheers.

Chip

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