Thread: World's fastest road car 2200BHP

Red Victor 2

W'ton man owns the world's fastest car

by Brett Birks
Wolverhampton engineer Andy Frost has turned a 34 year old Vauxhall Victor into what he claims is the world's fastest petrol run street car.

PHOTO GALLERY: RED VICTOR 2
For 25 years, Wolverhampton engineer Andy Frost has spent much of his free time in his garage.

Red Victor 2

In that period, he estimates that he's spent £100,000 doing up an old Vauxhall Victor.
But the fruits of his labour have finally paid off.
Andy reckons he now has the fastest street car in the world.
"It can do 0 - 60 mph in one second!" he exclaims proudly.
"It's been a long road to get here but now I'm a hundred percent confident that I have the fastest car in the world. And it runs on ordinary petrol."

Car enthusiast


Andy and Red Victor 2

A life-long car enthusiast, Andy paid a neighbour a mere £60 back in 1981 for the K-reg Vauxhall that was sitting on his drive.
"I just set about doing it up," he explains. "I never had any intention of trying to set a record or anything. I just kept adding various parts over the years, a kind of hobby if you like.
"A few years ago, I realised how far I'd come. I'd gotten more involved in racing so knew all about the current records. Then I thought - let's go for it! Let's try and be the fastest!"
The old Vauxhall first became Red Victor 1, before Andy fitted twin turbos and christened it Red Victor 2.
£100,000 spent

"I reckon I've spent about £100,000 over the last 25 years," says Andy.

Red Victor 2

"That includes man hours. I've lived in the garage for a lot of that time so my wife has not seen a lot of me! I could have spent the money on beer or holidays but I wanted to have something to show for all my efforts.
"I can now say that I have something totally unique. There is nothing like Red Victor 2 anywhere in the world!"
The money has gone on various bits and pieces over the years, including: a Chevrolet based 9.3ltr engine; twin 88mm Holset turbos, a bulletproof 2 speed GM power glide transmission and an Electromotive TEC3R EFI system.
Races and road

"It can also reach a speed of 183 mph in 7.8 seconds," says Andy.

Andy and Red Victor 2

"The car is street legal, but I race it mainly at the UK Street Eliminator series. The key thing is that it runs on ordinary pump petrol. Mind you, five miles to the gallon means plenty of petrol stops!"
Andy rarely uses the car on the road, but does have a drive out with his wife occasionally and his youngest son Gary has been the envy of his mates the odd time Andy picks him up from school.
"It's become a real magnet for attention now so I do tend to keep it inside," he says. "Imagine that - the fastest car in the world spends most of its time in a Wolverhampton garage!"

Originally Posted by EmperorTud

"It can also reach a speed of 183 mph in 7.8 seconds," says Andy.

I don't believe it

No front air-dam, no rear aerofoil and a high ground clearance, he would loose steering at that speed

BB Chevy with twin turbo/ juiced with NOS (can't do it on premium grade gasoline alone). Very possible to build this sled but on a mechanic's salary? Fok-Me and his poor family!!! This guy is pooring in all his hard earned money to support his motorhead habit. Thats sad.

Originally Posted by EmperorTud

In that period, he estimates that he's spent £100,000 doing up an old Vauxhall Victor.

Deceptive choice of wording there.
It is a Vauxhall Victor bodyshell (and probably a glasfibre replica) dumped on top of a custom made chassis . I suspect the log book is the only original item.

Originally Posted by Gerbil

He appears to have fitted the airscoop on the bonnet on backwards.

It's not on backwards.. It's cowl induction.. The coolest, cleanest high pressure air to feed an intake is actually just at the base of the windshield especially on those older cars that have little to no aero as the air travels over the hood and up the windshield it creates a high pressure counter clockwise flowing pressure wave in that area of the windshield the faster the car travels and that forces more cool, clean air into the intake.

All NASCAR, DTM, most Lemans/IMSA Sports and all Aussie V8 super cars collect the air from this point their air cowls mostly point backwards or just on front of the hood in the grill area as Ram air if the rules allow it. Additionally it pulls in less hot air from the engine as it completely isolates the atmospheric air in the cowling all the way to the engine intake..It's shape also provides for more down force on the front end as well, whether or not he thought that far into it is another thing, but the fact is that it does..As normally this area would be out of the air flow and create a high vacuum area when the high speed air flows over it creating lift rather than a down force effect it creates now being higher than the surrounding area..

He may have installed gauges there but that's not it's purpose..

Originally Posted by Thetyim

Originally Posted by EmperorTud

"It can also reach a speed of 183 mph in 7.8 seconds," says Andy.

I don't believe it

No front air-dam, no rear aerofoil and a high ground clearance, he would loose steering at that speed

This is partly true, but I would also guess that is one aspect of him having this old heavy car versus a newer one, though based on what he says it isn't likely he planned that on purpose, he just got lucky... But this way it has a better tendency to stay planted without the need for aero drag like he would get from air dams and such.. In essence all aero down force does is just add 'weight' to a car anyway, while preventing lift... Important for going around corners fast but not so much in a straight line, more of detriment there if you want top speed..
Actually the reverse is true, for more top speed a car that is lighter on it's tires is creating less drag and will thus go faster.

This is why straight line cars are sprung so lightly, that allows the body to press down without putting too much weight on the tires, this is the delicate balance that F1 cars and engineers deal with.. Take notice of the small front tires, that's to lessen the drag as much as is safely possible..

What does peak my interest though is that there is no wheelie bar to keep this thing from hooking up and flipping over backwards. I wonder if he installs one for his jaunts to the drag strip maybe?? And just leaves it off so he can run it on the street. At 2200 Hp I should think it isn't likely the front end would touch ground again without it..

Bottom line, he has straight line aero package which is not the same as road racing aero..

Originally Posted by peterpan

^ They are instruments that operate on a electrical signal from a transducer, so tell me excatly how they can explode. You muppet.
The days of pressure gauges working on a pressure feed from the engine went 20 yrs ago.

The electrical gauges are in the cabin.

And it's a 40 year old car!

Mechanical gauges can shatter and spray liquid inside the cabin so that's why they are mounted outside the cabin.

Muppet!

I seriously suggest you take a break because it's painfully obvious you don't have a Scooby what you are talking about.