Recent content by Newbomb Turk

I didn’t say any of that. You say the dyno is wrong and I’m saying it’s not. Or at least none of us have enough information to say one way or the other. I will say it could only lose 125 hp or whatever by a combination of things. Your premise that you’ve never seen an engine run dyno numbers...

And that’s a shame because you have trashed dyno testing and you do t have a clue why you are wrong. You’d rather stay wrong than learn.

I’ve laid out all the reasons why his engine would be down on power but I’ll say this again with this caveat. If the engine in question is one I saw this morning then the correction factor was MINUS about 3%. So are you grasping that yet? I saw the dyno screen and the correction factor was...

You could have said 2000 hp and 110 MPH. Same thing almost.

Look at how Chrysler, Ford and GM designed a proper shroud. Then look at the cookie sheet “shroud” (I use that term very loosely) you get with the electric fans. Once you start getting your road speed up you can’t force all the air through the radiator and it becomes packed air. Guys will...

Yup. So pulled the drive back out and checked the face of the gear. It was less than .0005 TIR. So it is on the shaft square. To save myself all the extra work I will never just drop in a drive like that again. They will all get checked. If this was a customer’s engine I would have just...

Get a cold case radiator with two cores. Skip the electric fans. If you are dead set on electric fans don’t use that shitty “shroud” that isn’t a shroud at all. You are better off with the electric fans and no “shroud” than using one of those things.

Keep the tunnel ram and sell those 450’s. Drop two 600 CFM double pumpers on it and don’t look back. Edit: old thread. You should have kept the tunnel ram. More power everywhere.

IMO if your oil needs an additive you need to buy a better oil.

It’s possible they bent the shaft when the gear was pressed on. Once I got it straight I put the dial indicator on the base of the gear and the runout was the same as the shaft so I assume the gear is on straight. Of course now that I typed that out I need to pull the drive back out, get it...

I measured it yesterday and it was .310 and a couple of tenths across the flats. I measured across the points but I forgot what that was. I’m going out there in a few minutes to put the pan back on so I’ll measure that again and report back.

Wow! That is interesting. Like I said I’ve never seen this before. I’ve never even heard of it. Thanks for letting us know it’s not just a Chrysler thing.

Yup. Ten years is a long time and I believe that little nasty gremlins come in and move stuff around and break stuff. Yeah, I have no idea how it got bent myself. What’s strange is the decent used drive I have out there is bent too. Not as much as the new one but it’s bent. It’s weird for...

Damn your car is sexy! I just love the early A’s. Outstanding!

100% the early A stuff is a horse of a different feather.