I do believe there will be a decent group of them .

Bump.
Kiwi engine designer Simon Longdill got clarification from either Lanny or Emmitt (sp) & got the green light to bring their engines up there.

I hope the engines can be appreciated for what they are , a marvel of technology. Its not their fault they were allowd to race, all the whingers should direct their complaints to the Chili Bowl promotion, not the Kiwis!

If they win or doreally well I'm sure no one will never be allowed to run that type of motor.

Well, luck good engines, Good cars, good drivers or combination of all those or?, They both made the sat main event on their first try their first night in there..
Those engines are based on Kawasaki motorcycle cyl head set up, They build there own stuff from there down, kinda like those guys from texas. I think the guys from texas started out with less than 90cui?
Chevy Ecotecs? the entry lists several as just Chevy engines? not sure if any are Ecotec.
I dont see why they would be outlawed ? They meet the rules, There arent any!! I think
aXe

Old school stuff with those V-8's . Some guy named Kenyon did some years ago.

I think Mels were the whole Kawa engine? these are self built whole bottom ends complete.
aXe

No revolution ecotechs were allowed..don't know why....

The ecotech shootout winner was going to be allowed but he already had a chilibowl ride.

Thought the ECU thing may have been the reason they can't run but don't those Kiwi V-8s have a similar brain box/fuel management setup??

I bet Emmet didn't want to have the ecotechs run in front of all those people heads up against the big motors this early in the development. Many guys with not much midget experience in motors lacking 120HP...may have cast a bad public image on the new ASCS midget series if none of the ecotechs ran worth a darn....

Just grabbing for straws here...really don't understand why they weren't allowed.

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Mels were 2 bike motors mated on one crankshaft..custom bottom end there too I believe.

That was so long ago I forgot about that . you are right.
aXe

One should remember that the Barns engines in Bondio's cars have less HP than most engines in the "A" and smaller CID. But something about the torque curve of those engines really suit that track well.

Here is the Kenyon Sesco Suzuki V8...



Now if I were going to bring a "V8" to the Chili Bowl, I think I would have to seriously look at the Hartley Enterprises H1V8... It is based of the Hayabusa, the baddest bike engine out there. This V8 is 170 cubes and pumps out 400hp @ 10,000 rpm... See more specs, pics and video here http://www.h1v8.com