Originally Posted by TwnTrboCE

I'm going to find out this spring. Were working with ERL to promote there Super Deck 2 500ci block. It will go in my Collector Edition street car.

Originally Posted by Black Sunshine/ 00SS

What, or who is ERL?

Originally Posted by grinder11

Maybe off topic, but don't laugh at the oval piston idea! Honda did exactly that with a motorcycle engine over 20 years ago!!! And it revved to OVER 20,000 RPM (Yeah, twenty thousand!) They did this because the Grand Prix rules then in effect banned anything over 4 cylinders. So Honda put 2 (!!) connecting rods on each oval shaped piston, equipped the motor with 4 oval pistons to meet the rules,and ran 8(!)valves per cylinder, effectively making it an in-line, or straight, 8 cylinder engine (32 valves, 8 connecting rods, etc.) And, it worked. The hardest part was making the piston rings fit and seal properly, but they eventually DID make it work. Many who saw and heard it said that when it was wound all the way up, it sounded like a 2 stroke!! (A 4 stroke at 20,000 R's would have 10,000 power strokes per minute, same as a 2 stroke at 10,000 RPM! Just food for thought!!

Originally Posted by Anonymous

That was the NSR750.

Originally Posted by TwnTrboCE

I can't post a link. But Google- ERL Performance. There in the process of updating there website but you can get the idea from the import stuff they do. They have been doing our blocks for the cars in my sig.

This will be our first time with there Super Deck 2 500ci block. But S.A.M has built one and is in prety much a race car. If you do a search for (sam) it will bring there build pics and specs up. My 500 will be used for street strip. Pump gas, full interior, A/C, complete exhaust, Rossler 4L60E, and a Midwest converter. Were going to drive it to Memphis; race it and drive it home.