Arrington 5.7 Still In Great Shape After 300 Passes And 4 Championships.

[novawagonmaster 62]

As many of you already know, Arrington assembled a forged 5.7 short block for me in June of 2011.

Since then, I have collected nearly 300 time slips from 1/4-mile racing which has led to four MSHS championships.

I'm sure next season is going to be even more competitive, so with that in mind, the time has come to turn up the wick. I got home from Atco on Saturday, and had the engine out on Sunday. I was amazed how good everything looked inside. If it wasn't a matter of trying to stay on top, I would have no reason not to button this thing back up and go have fun for another two years.

Mad props to Arrington for not only building the fastest N/A 5.7 on the planet, but also for delivering a very reliable engine that just keeps begging for more passes. You guys rock!

[Don@Arrington 17]

Arrington FTW!

[70Barracuda 25]

Congrats all around to all involved, sounds like they built you a heck of a motor.

[blackdeuce 11]

Now, that's getting some great results! Good to hear it.

Don and AJ have been great to deal with. Lots of newbie questions coming from me.

[srt5939 159]

spray that fucker

[novawagonmaster 62]

spray that fucker

Bite your tongue.

N/A all the way.

[lakersfan7272 59]

Awesome motor

[Guest Daparrothead]

That has been one helluva good motor for you, almost makes you leary of even messing with something that has worked so good.

[StevoHemi 113]

Care to share some details of that Arrington engine Jon?

Cam... crank... heads...?

Stevo

[Boatman 97]

You have had the best 5.7 setup for years. Can't wait to see what you do next.

14.1???

[Andy@PWR 58]

You have had the best 5.7 setup for years. Can't wait to see what you do next.

14.1???

I seem to know another 5.7 that gave John all he could handle when it came off the line without dead batteries and other brain farts.

Amazing what you accomplished with that engine. Great job racing with that and great job to Arrington on a bad ass motor.

[toofart 148]

Bite your tongue.

N/A all the way.

Technically, n2o is still aspirated naturally into the engine....

[novawagonmaster 62]

That has been one helluva good motor for you, almost makes you leary of even messing with something that has worked so good.

I've had similar thoughts, but in the racing game, you cannot get comfortable for a second. No sense waiting for the competition to catch up before making improvements?

Care to share some details of that Arrington engine Jon?

Cam... crank... heads...?

Stevo

Cam by Steve Frank. Heads by GTP Racing. Stock 6.1 crank.

You have had the best 5.7 setup for years. Can't wait to see what you do next.

14.1???

As Don would say...

I seem to know another 5.7 that gave John all he could handle when it came off the line without dead batteries and other brain farts.

Amazing what you accomplished with that engine. Great job racing with that and great job to Arrington on a bad ass motor.

Thanks Andy. The game of cat and mouse has certainly been entertaining at times.

Technically, n2o is still aspirated naturally into the engine....

Technically, you'll never see a power adder on my car.

[nd4topspd 12]

Congrats to you and your car as well to Arrington for their workmanship!! These kind of stories keep me saying Mopar or No Car :-)

[BuckeyeGuy 82]

spray that fucker

Noooooooo !

[Speedy 247]

I've been real happy with my Arrington motor as well. I'm not out to win racing series every year, but I have 60 or so passes on mine with a blower on top of all kinds of romps driving it around on the street and it still purrs like a kitten and doesn't use a drop of oil. One thing they certainly know how to do is build a great engine. Mine even gets 18 city and 23 highway gas mileage Amazes the folks at work. If I can get it to run some 10s that'll be icing on the cake.

[Hemiwoman 7]

John can't wait to see what you are up to for next season. I know it will only be better and faster.

[BACNBLK 3]

Congrats to you and Arrington.

Joe

[HemiSam 188]

WINNING big Jon!!! Now bring the space monkey back, brother. That avatar made me smile like a kid after two....

HS

[Hemituner 97]

I seem to know another 5.7 that gave John all he could handle when it came off the line without dead batteries and other brain farts.

Amazing what you accomplished with that engine. Great job racing with that and great job to Arrington on a bad ass motor.

You mean a 6.1.........Johns eng is 5.7 l In displacement

A.J

[Andy@PWR 58]

You mean a 6.1.........Johns eng is 5.7 l In displacement

A.J

So was kents before he swapped to a 6.1. Kent and jon were even closer in performance then but jon always had driving edge

[rtr0id 73]

it should look good its only got about 300 miles on it...

definately a stout piece for sure.

congrats again to Jon and Arrington

[novawagonmaster 62]

it should look good its only got about 300 miles on it...

definately a stout piece for sure.

congrats again to Jon and Arrington

Granted, I don't drive it much anymore, but I did put about 5000 street miles on it last year (including 1000 miles of driving for the Bradenton, FL event).

[rtr0id 73]

I stand corrected.

and just for the record I meant no offense by it. i TRY and post mostly funny shit but it isnt always interpreted that way

well now that is funny. i went over to challengeralk to respond to mizzy and i'm banned...lmao

oh well no wonder jay leno never calls me

I stand corrected.

and just for the record I meant no offense by it. i TRY and post mostly funny shit but it isnt always interpreted that way

edit... well now that is funny. i went over to challengeralk to respond to mizzy and i'm banned...lmao

oh well no wonder jay leno never calls me

Edited November 17, 2012 by rtr0id

[novawagonmaster 62]

No offense taken. I just wanted to clarify because not everybody knows I actually drove the car to most events until this season.

Last season, I drove the car on the street on 93 pump gas, then drained fuel at the track and raced it on MS109. Then I made the switch to E85 this year, and built a trailer so I could haul the car around. It's not that the car cannot still be driven on the street, I've just become lazy in the sense that I am tired of changing tires and fuels for race day. Couple that with the potential for breakage at this level, and a trailer was a no-brainer.

I wear my trailer queen tiara proudly these days.