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I WANTED A SHORT-STROKE MOTOR THAT WOULD REV. I DID SOME RESEARCH AND INCORPORATED NASCAR AND SPRINTCAR ENGINEERING TIPS

SOMEWHERE, a bunch of purists are sharpening their pencils to write sternly worded letters to Ryan Pearson. But they can jog on, because Ryan took an abandoned HT Premier and built it into a super-neat, 1300hp blown burnout rig, which is heaps better than the old Holden languishing under dirt.

“I came across the car on a job I was doing, just collecting dust in a shed,” the Sydney-based air-conditioning mechanic says. “It was a little 253