{"id":178570,"date":"2025-12-11T06:58:19","date_gmt":"2025-12-11T06:58:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/178570\/"},"modified":"2025-12-11T06:58:19","modified_gmt":"2025-12-11T06:58:19","slug":"triple-eight-bolsters-engine-department","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/178570\/","title":{"rendered":"Triple Eight bolsters engine department"},"content":{"rendered":"

TRIPLE Eight has added to its engine program with Kaz Penwarden and Brent Blakey to come across from Motorsport Powertrains.<\/p>\n

Having been denied access to its long-time supplier KRE Race Engines, which General Motors signed to an exclusive deal<\/a>, Triple Eight responded by establishing an in-house engine shop at its Banyo headquarters.<\/p>\n

V8 Sleuth revealed in May that ex-KRE staffer Cam Clancy had been signed as its engine shop manager<\/a>; Penwarden and Blakey now will bolster the expertise on hand.<\/p>\n

Dick Johnson<\/a> Racing-aligned Motorsport Powertrains ran point on the 5.4-litre Coyote across the 2024 and 2025 seasons, succeeding Herrod Performance Engines in the hot seat.<\/p>\n

Triple Eight managing director Jamie Whincup<\/a> had last month at Sandown said its engine shop was due to be completed at the end of November \u2013 a timeframe he described as \u201cfour weeks later than I\u2019d like, but probably four weeks earlier than we absolutely really need it\u201d.<\/p>\n

\"\"Pic: Mark Walker<\/p>\n

\u201cAll the engines are there, the dyno<\/a> is in \u2013 it\u2019s not running yet but it\u2019s all very, very close \u2013 and we\u2019re already starting to build engines in a car bay actually just outside the engine shop,\u201d he said at the time.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s 80 percent down and by the time we get back it should be 90 percent, and then in the next month we\u2019ll just get that last 10 percent and make sure it\u2019s all nice.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Coyote will be pitted against GM\u2019s 5.7-litre pushrod and Toyota\u2019s new 5.2-litre V8 unit in the 2026 Repco Supercars Championship.<\/p>\n

Initial parity work between the three motors will be conducted locally before a planned mid-year trip to AVL\u2019s Austrian facility in Graz<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TRIPLE Eight has added to its engine program with Kaz Penwarden and Brent Blakey to come across from…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":178571,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[111,139,69,213],"class_list":{"0":"post-178570","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-new-zealand","9":"tag-newzealand","10":"tag-nz","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178570","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=178570"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178570\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/178571"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=178570"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=178570"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=178570"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}