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Old 07-12-2011, 08:36 PM   #19
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Default Re: the 3 xa gt race cars

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Originally Posted by Bossxr8
The 250 QC motors were never built either as far as i'm aware, only a few QC engines were built for the race teams. The had ordered the 250 sets of parts for them, but the orders were either cancelled if not recieved yet, sold off to the aftermarket or slotted into random production engines to get rid of parts. They didn't get around to putting the 250 QC motors into production AFAIK. The supercar scare happened before they were ready for that so it didn't go ahead.
According to Marsden they only ever built about 20 QC motors all up for the racers, beginning back at Barthurst '71.
A $250 hand built option, reworked oil system, CC'd chambers, blue printed, valve work, heavily linished crank etc.
$250 freakin bucks! mind you the HO's only cost 5k but still...
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