Yahoo Autos This Volvo-Powered Dragster Is an Eight-Second Car
If you're building a rear-engined dragster, you need a big American V8, right? Conventional wisdom indicates that you do, but if you're a crazy group of Norwegians, you use a little four-cylinder from a Volvo. Apparently.
Using a Volvo B20 engine–a single-cam, iron-block four-cylinder that dates back to the early 1960s–for a dragster seems like a bad idea, but there's actually some logic here. Volvo's B-series engines didn't produce a lot of power, but they are incredibly durable–just ask the guy who put three million miles on a 1.8-liter version in a 1966 Volvo P18000.
Team Volvo Dragster has been racing for nearly 10 years now, but it just came to our attention thanks to a post on BangShift.com. We're not entirely sure how much power this dragster makes, but an older YouTube video says it makes around 750 hp. We do know it can run an 8.35-second quarter-mile, which is thoroughly absurd. Even better, it sounds like an old rally car doing it.
Team Volvo Dragster, we salute you. Keep chasing tenths.
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