more info on DOOM II 968 turbo 700+WHP engine
01-21-2009, 11:30 PM
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more info on DOOM II 968 turbo 700+WHP engine
anyone have info on this?
Title:
Doom's Day
Issue:
#78, June 1998, page 127
Author:
Jeff Hartman
Length:
5-pages (2½-pages of text, the remainder photos)
Synopsis:
Hartman looks at Bob Norwood's extraordinary DOOM II – a tube frame race chassis with a 700+ HP 968 engine. An interesting car with an interesting history.
Doom's Day
Issue:
#78, June 1998, page 127
Author:
Jeff Hartman
Length:
5-pages (2½-pages of text, the remainder photos)
Synopsis:
Hartman looks at Bob Norwood's extraordinary DOOM II – a tube frame race chassis with a 700+ HP 968 engine. An interesting car with an interesting history.
01-21-2009, 11:44 PM
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My bad...it was $500,000 not $60,000 and it lasted for 24 minutes.
Norwood's $500,000 Porsche creation made its appearance in 1995 - the racer DOOM. It was a supercar with ultra-high-tech fabrication utilizing components, of Indy cars and other radical cars put to use in a new way. The 3.6 supercharged engine designed to last 24 minutes did the job beating every competitor. The record remains unbroken. DOOM, named after the biggest selling computer game of all time that helped to finance it, disappeared on July 31, 1995 - stolen from outside Norwood's fabricating shop and not seen since.
Norwood has continued his new developments in 1997. He has built two new 4 cylinder Porsche 968 turbo DOOM cars. He is also continuing to press for as much horsepower from the Testarossa as possible. Norwood filed a patent on a new turbocharger turbine upgrade. He also continues to manufacture his high performance replica cars and now has scratch motors that feature a V-12 with either 777 or 1000 cubic inches and 302 cubic inch V-12's for P-4's and GTO's.
Norwood's $500,000 Porsche creation made its appearance in 1995 - the racer DOOM. It was a supercar with ultra-high-tech fabrication utilizing components, of Indy cars and other radical cars put to use in a new way. The 3.6 supercharged engine designed to last 24 minutes did the job beating every competitor. The record remains unbroken. DOOM, named after the biggest selling computer game of all time that helped to finance it, disappeared on July 31, 1995 - stolen from outside Norwood's fabricating shop and not seen since.
Norwood has continued his new developments in 1997. He has built two new 4 cylinder Porsche 968 turbo DOOM cars. He is also continuing to press for as much horsepower from the Testarossa as possible. Norwood filed a patent on a new turbocharger turbine upgrade. He also continues to manufacture his high performance replica cars and now has scratch motors that feature a V-12 with either 777 or 1000 cubic inches and 302 cubic inch V-12's for P-4's and GTO's.
01-21-2009, 11:54 PM
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No sure about that much $$ but way out of most team budgets, one of the builders talks about the car.
https://rennlist.com/forums/4197364-post217.html
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01-21-2009, 11:55 PM
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My bad...it was $500,000 not $60,000 and it lasted for 24 minutes.
Norwood's $500,000 Porsche creation made its appearance in 1995 - the racer DOOM. It was a supercar with ultra-high-tech fabrication utilizing components, of Indy cars and other radical cars put to use in a new way. The 3.6 supercharged engine designed to last 24 minutes did the job beating every competitor. The record remains unbroken. DOOM, named after the biggest selling computer game of all time that helped to finance it, disappeared on July 31, 1995 - stolen from outside Norwood's fabricating shop and not seen since.
Norwood has continued his new developments in 1997. He has built two new 4 cylinder Porsche 968 turbo DOOM cars. He is also continuing to press for as much horsepower from the Testarossa as possible. Norwood filed a patent on a new turbocharger turbine upgrade. He also continues to manufacture his high performance replica cars and now has scratch motors that feature a V-12 with either 777 or 1000 cubic inches and 302 cubic inch V-12's for P-4's and GTO's.
Norwood's $500,000 Porsche creation made its appearance in 1995 - the racer DOOM. It was a supercar with ultra-high-tech fabrication utilizing components, of Indy cars and other radical cars put to use in a new way. The 3.6 supercharged engine designed to last 24 minutes did the job beating every competitor. The record remains unbroken. DOOM, named after the biggest selling computer game of all time that helped to finance it, disappeared on July 31, 1995 - stolen from outside Norwood's fabricating shop and not seen since.
Norwood has continued his new developments in 1997. He has built two new 4 cylinder Porsche 968 turbo DOOM cars. He is also continuing to press for as much horsepower from the Testarossa as possible. Norwood filed a patent on a new turbocharger turbine upgrade. He also continues to manufacture his high performance replica cars and now has scratch motors that feature a V-12 with either 777 or 1000 cubic inches and 302 cubic inch V-12's for P-4's and GTO's.
01-21-2009, 11:58 PM
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Those guys are very, very knowledeable when it comes to these motors. They answered your questions very well. They just did not say what you wanted to hear.
That is all.
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01-22-2009, 01:00 AM
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im just joking about the flaming, everyone's been really nice, they know, but they arent listing anything specific.
01-22-2009, 01:11 AM
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Scott Gomes had the doom block and setup awhile back, he knows tons about the history, you can search under threads he's started for a brief history when he started the thread to sell some stuff from the 968 motor'd car.
01-22-2009, 03:38 PM
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01-22-2009, 03:53 PM
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its interesting that the original DOOM car is said to be a 3.6 968 engine that is SUPERCHARGED and the other cars we see are TURBOCHARGED... i guess these engines are closely guarded secrets.