The person, the myth, The Legend, Bob Norwood, has been building, racing, restoring and servicing vintage/race Ferraris and other motors for over fifty years. He's regarded for incorporating revolutionary developments into high-performance automotive layout.
His passion for cars commenced at a younger age. At 13, he drove a 1946 Ford Coupe in his first competitive drag race. He persisted drag racing even as in high school, driving a six cylinder GMC G-gasoline Coupe and later an A-sports Corvette. In 1971, he raced a Superstock Hemi-Cuda and made it number within the global A/FC point standings.
Norwood got into Cam AM racing in 1982 with the purchase of the 1979 Citi-Corp Championship vehicle from Carl Hass. He ran SCCA A-sports activities with motive force Phil Compton and continued on in 1983 with the addition of a second Lola 333 pushed through Mike Rowe. The Norwood crew partnered with Don Walker in late 1983, bought team VDS and won Cam AM in 1984. At one factor he turned into the proud proprietor of 137 listings within the Guinness e-book of automobile global statistics.
Within the mid '80s, Bob's modified Ferrari 308 QV, the primary with programmable gasoline injection, set two elegance velocity statistics at the Bonneville Salt flats and one of them stood for 26 years.
His Ferrari 288 GTO rebody nonetheless holds the document as the fastest Ferrari within the international and his intercooled dual turbo Ferrari Testarossa gained a avenue & music magazine Shootout.
in the overdue '80s, Norwood equipped a Ferrari 12-cylinder Boxer engine with a locomotive sourced supercharger. It featured a lightened flywheel and knife-edged crank and will rev from the engine's 1200 RPM idle to the nine,000 RPM redline in just over a 10th of a 2nd. It became licensed on a Superflow 901 engine dyno to make 1,four hundred horsepower on 120-octane fuel at 60 psi raise.
the fast-stroke 3.2-inch bore engine turned into upgraded with a billet Crower crankshaft, greater-long Crower rods and custom solid pistons. It became managed via a Haltech F3 EFI controller and a Firepower Direct-fire 12 coil ignition system. speedy ahead to these days and he is making (consisting of the engine block and heads) custom 5.0 liter 4 cylinder engines from scratch that produce three,000+ horsepower!
Drawing on his racing historical past and passion for Ferraris, Norwood's first Ferrari recuperation tasks were a 330 2+2 road vehicle and a Boano membership racer. He then constructed his first Ferrari replica, a fifty nine/TR (Testarossa), and went on to build four extra. He has when you consider that constructed severa Ferrari replicas, which include the 330/P4. After years of constructing P4 replicas, GTO rebodies, and 250 Testrossa 59s, he determined to construct rebodied Ferrari 250 GT SWB Spyders (scroll right down to analyze extra about these and his 330 P/4s).
Further to his own initiatives, he builds race and avenue automobiles for numerous racing teams and is one of the main carrier and restoration vendors for Ferrari proprietors/collectors around the world.