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This 1932 Bantam is owned by Walt
Skoczylas (Scotchless) our very own Portland / Vancouver
chapter head
Walt bought his Bantam in late 1990 as a rolling chassis
and soon began the long and costly process of making it
race worthy. He installed a tri-powered 292 backed by a
powerglide and a 4.30 MOPAR rear end. By May of 1992 the
car was at the Good guy's Goodtimes (Sears Point CA.)
and turned a 12.9 @ 101 MPH
Since that date Walt has made many improvements, but as
you can see the biggest has been the addition of a
direct injected, 671 supercharged 292!
Walt has made some serious upgrades
and here is the story:
It's probably too hard to keep up with,
but this is a different altered that the one I had with
flames. That was a Bantam body. I sold it
minus engine a couple of years ago because the chassis
would not re-certify for NHRA and the changes I would
have had to make would have required building a new
chassis from scratch. I sold it to my Inliner
buddy Jim Hawk who is running it with a milder
carbureted 292 Chev. It doesn't run fast enough
with that engine to require certification.
I bought Pat O'Shaughnessy's altered, "The Barn
Job", minus engine. See the J/F '93 12 Port
News. This chassis also would not certify "as
is", but the way it was built it was easy to cut
off the roll cage and build a new one. I went this
route because I like to look and feel of the early construction
over the new "belly button" altered bodies and
chassis. The body is an interesting one. It
is the front cowl of a '23 T with the back half of a '27
T.
Besides the roll cage, I also had to build new engine
mounts, cross members, aluminum interior, redesign the
front and rear ends, etc. etc.
To check out and debug everything, I ran a small 230 CI
Chevy engine in the car last year. It was an
engine another Inliner buddy of mine, Jim Anderson, had
laying around. It was fuel injected with an
aluminum Deppe-Duggen head and ran alcohol. I was
able to run some 9.90 ET's with that engine.
Now that everything on the chassis seems to work, I just
finished putting the blown motor in the car for this
season. It is the engine out of the Bantam and is
a 292 with a 6-71 blower and an 8 port Crower fuel
injection hat. I run this engine on gas with about
10 lbs of boost. We'll see how it runs in this
setup! It would run 9.70's in the Bantam.
- Walt
Walt sends this update for the 2004 season:
Here's a picture of this year's
incarnation of my altered. Just finished putting it
together. New paint job, new engine, and some rear
suspension mods. The engine is owned by Jim Anderson,
#2061, my partner in this venture. It is an all
aluminum Duggan with a 4-1/8" bore and 3-3/4 stroke for
just over 300 cu. in. It will run gas and has 3 500cfm
Holley carbs on a custom tunnel ram type intake. Full
dry sump oil system too. Will be getting it out to the
track soon.
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