<\/span>Until you open the bonnet and discover 5.7 litres of alloy LS1 and a turbocharger hanging off to one side. Dig a bit deeper and you\u2019ll also find a Powerglide with an 1800rpm converter and a nine-inch diff with a 3.2:1 Tru Trac centre. Dominic bought the car about 19 years ago as a way of getting to work and back but, as he tells it, he eventually fell in love with the old girl, had it painted and then started fiddling.<\/p>\nThe car completed Drag Challenge 2016 trouble free, running consistent at each track. This sleeper HK is the real deal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Dominic Pelle’s HK Kingy has enough power to knock your socks off<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":13969,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[522,539,557,879,6916],"coauthors":[1010],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.streetmachine.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/sleeper-turbo-ls-hk-kingwood-at-drag-challenge-nw.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.streetmachine.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13968"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.streetmachine.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.streetmachine.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.streetmachine.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.streetmachine.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13968"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.streetmachine.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13968\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.streetmachine.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13969"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.streetmachine.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13968"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.streetmachine.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13968"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.streetmachine.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13968"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.streetmachine.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=13968"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
<\/span>\u201cBut there\u2019s nothing big dollar in it,\u201d he tells us. \u201cThe engine is a dead stock, 140,000km LS dragged out of a wrecking yard. I put a set of valve springs in it, but I really shouldn\u2019t have bothered. The turbo\u2019s a 60mm Garrett T04B and we used that \u2018cos we had it on the shelf. We did the whole conversion ourselves, too. So far it\u2019s run 11.20 at 119mph, so there\u2019s faster stuff here this week, but probably nothing that cost less to build.\u201d<\/p>\n
<\/span>Now, Dominic hails from Llandilo in NSW, so by the time he back-tracked to find overnight accommodation and made it to the Calder Park sign-on, the HK had covered 1200km trouble free kays in 24 hours. Oh, and that was three up (his mates aren\u2019t little blokes either) with a boot full of stuff, because Dominic didn\u2019t want to tow a trailer for the week.<\/p>\n
<\/span>\u201cI reckon we\u2019ve been getting about eight litres per 100km and that\u2019s sitting on the limit. The only thing that went wrong was our roof rack collapsed halfway down the freeway, so we had to throw that in the back of a mate\u2019s ute who was heading the same way.\u201d<\/p>\n