Johnny,
I'm basing that on your reluctance to answer my quetion (three times, now) as to whether your 360 will outrun Tom Wolfe's turbo'd /6 in the video ('70 Dart, 11.02, at 3,300 pounds + driver.
No Bill,
My 360 is not a 11sec car,nor did I build it to be an 11sec car. Its a street car,not a drag car,as all the tracks in my area are all but gone.But it is no slouch either,and I don't fear to many slant cars. Sure there are a couple slant turbo cars in this big world,but that's an anomaly.
But I'm still not sure what your point is ?
There are turbo V8 Mopar cars all over YouTube running low 9's...:dontknow:
I have a Hot Rod magazine from 2000,with the Guru of everything slanted
Doug Dutra. With a clapped out 70 Duster,with "Every"single trick in his book,including a 100 shot of the laughing gas ! The best he could do was
a 13.576 at 99.23. Again,this car had every trick he could throw at it !
Meanwhile,
Miss Johnson could go down to the local Dodge dealer,and buy a stock
340 Dart,pizza cutter tires and all,and go door handle to door handle with Mr.Dutra.
And then go get her groceries.:D
Well. we could "discuss" all day long about the vagariess of which engine has more potentiai, but I will just say this. The stock 340 Dusters I saw run that were "showroom stock" and on OEM tires, ran pretty consistent 14.40s, a long way from a 13.56. I was a tech guy at the local drag strip (Des Moines Dragway) and teched in most of those cars, while runing the clocks a lot of the time.
Of COURSE, you can used forced induction on a 360 and outrun a car with an engine that is only 5/8ths as big.
Only an idiot would contend that those 135 cubic inches mean nothing, in the power-production department.
But, you can give the small engine a better chance by allowing forced induction on the little fellow.
Now. you have parity.
My point is that using a power-adder like turbocharging on the little engine can give it a fighting chance against an engine that is 60-percent larger.
It can't measure up to a well-built 360 in terms of all-out horsepower, even with turbo, but it can produce enough grunt to satisfy must butts in the seats.
Tom Wolfe attached a Buick G/N turbo to 225 that was bone stock (except for a 4bbl carb and manifold) and ran 12.95... over half a second quicker than Doug Dutra's effort. Maybe that will illustrate the effectiveness of forced induction on these engines.
Here is the video:
[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pPe_vHwZsF4"]Slant Six Turbo 1970 Dodge Dart 1/4 Mile pass - YouTube[/ame]
The head had never been off that engine.
All that does is give credence to my contention to the theory that that engine doesn't breathe very well without some help (in the form of a turbo or a supercharger.)
Steve Nitti's belt-driven (centrifugal) supercharged slant six Duster runs 11.0's and will likely be in the tens soon.
That beautiful slant six of yours just needs a hairdryer and the appropriate ancillary parts to be a really exciting ride...
But your 360 might need some performance upgrades to stay ahead of it, normally-aspirated.:blob:
Try it; you might like it!!! :sign7:
