The Man, The Myth, The Legend, Bob Norwood, has been building, hustling, reestablishing and adjusting vintage/race Ferraris and different vehicles for more than fifty years. He's known for joining inventive improvements into elite car outline.
His enthusiasm for autos began at a youthful age. At 13, he drove a 1946 Ford Coupe in his first focused race. He proceeded with racing while in secondary school, driving a six chamber GMC G-Gas Coupe and later an A-Sports Corvette. In 1971, he hustled a Superstock Hemi-Cuda and made it number two on the planet A/FC point standings.
Norwood got into Cam AM hustling in 1982 with the buy of the 1979 Citi-Corp Championship auto from Carl Hass. He ran SCCA A-Sports with driver Phil Compton and proceeded in 1983 with the expansion of a moment Lola 333 driven by Mike Rowe. The Norwood group banded together with Don Walker in late 1983, purchased Team VDS and won Cam AM in 1984. At a certain point he was the glad proprietor of 137 postings in the Guinness Book of Automotive World Records.
In the mid '80s, Bob's altered Ferrari 308 QV, the first with programmable fuel infusion, set two class speed records on the Bonneville Salt Flats and one of them remained for a long time.
His Ferrari 288 GTO rebody still holds the record as the speediest Ferrari on the planet and his intercooled twin turbo Ferrari Testarossa won a Road and Track Magazine Shootout.
In the late '80s, Norwood prepared a Ferrari 12-chamber Boxer motor with a train sourced supercharger. It included a helped flywheel and blade edged wrench and could rev from the motor's 1200 RPM sit still to the 9,000 RPM redline in a little more than a tenth of a moment. It was confirmed on a Superflow 901 motor dyno to make 1,400 drive on 120-octane gas at 60 psi support.
The short-stroke 3.2-inch bore motor was updated with a billet Crower crankshaft, additional long Crower poles and exceptionally produced cylinders. It was overseen by a Haltech F3 EFI controller and a Firepower Direct-Fire 12 loop start framework. Quick forward to today and he is making (counting the motor piece and heads) custom 5.0 liter 4 barrel motors starting with no outside help that deliver 3,000+ torque!
Drawing on his hustling foundation and enthusiasm for Ferraris, Norwood's first Ferrari reclamation ventures were a 330 2+2 street auto and a Boano club racer. He then constructed his first Ferrari reproduction, a 59/TR (Testarossa), and went ahead to fabricate four more. He has since fabricated various Ferrari imitations, including the 330/P4. Following quite a while of building P4 reproductions, GTO rebodies, and 250 Testrossa 59s, he chose to assemble rebodied Ferrari 250 GT SWB Spyders (look down to take in more about these and his 330 P/4s).
Notwithstanding his own activities, he manufactures race and road engines for a few dashing groups and is one of the main administration and reclamation suppliers for Ferrari proprietors/authorities around the globe.
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