So I am having thoughts about trying to build a funny car like they did in the 60's. There is a Opel GT down the street from me that is pretty rusty and would make a good body doner. I have a 455 and turbo 400. I just picked up the crowning jewel an 8v92 belt driven intake manifold. After watching a recent video on the 67 skylark funny car it looks like they used a similar V blower on that motor as well. I'm curious about what was done to that motor to get it to run on nitro.
If your building a funny car, no sense in buying an opel. Just buy a fiberglass body. No sense in buying an open street car as youll likely use nothing off of it
You'll be money ahead buying a finished roller that someone else is done with. Unless ya just want the exp of building it thats the way I'd go. Also NHRA tech is very tough on stuff like this and will have to certified. Do the homework before ya commit
Fiberglass body's are at least 4k, a rusted out opel is at most 1k using just outside body panels like they did back in the early funny car days will be cheaper. Then I would research building a chassis like they did back in the early days. Worse case it would be a cackle car, best case a slow 1/4 mile car.
