Performance Questions 225 vs. 360
It's all good Bill,believe it or not, I'm pulling for you. :D
I don't want you to think I am a /6 hater. If I was,I would have yanked the slant out of my 65,and thrown it in a ditch long ago.Actually,if my car wasn't
1-23 built,it would be in a ditch.lol But that's besides the point. I have built a fun
Slant car,with pretty impressive performance for what it is. With the 4spd it's a hoot,and I'm happy just the way it sits.
But if we are comparing apples to apples, my 360 car is a whole different beast.
I'll just leave it at that.
Why do I have this feeling that the original poster is looking at Nova's on Craigslist ? :D
The man is an engineer. He said that.
THAT is reason enough not to be looking at Novas.
You say you're pretty happy with your slant six just the way it is, and I have no quarrel with that because, after all, it IS
YOUR CAR! Build it the way
YOU want it. And, it looks like you did. It's arguably one of the nicest-looking slants I've seen, and I've looked at a few!
I really like the black headers and how they contrast with the orange engine paint.
The only thing I would do different is, supply the missing hairdryer so it didn't have to take a back seat to your 360 at a stoplight.
That is possible for not a lot of money if you're a careful buyer. Your leaning tower of power probably already has a lot of the parts necessary to make it into a real pressurized performer; I'm not sure what all you've done to it besides what we can see in the pictures.
You'd need a turbocharger, turbo-mount header, cam change, a set of new solid lifters, a blow-thru 4bbl carb (you already have the manifold) and a ported head with 1.75" X 1.5" valves, a carb hat with plumbing, and not much else. If you wanted to make 300 HP, a Snowperformance Boost Cooler alky/water injector) would be a worthwhile expense, since preventing detonation would be high on your list of priorities of important things to do. That injection system would allow you to run 15 pounds of boost instead of the 10 you'd be limited to without it (this is assuming stock, cast pistons.)
Buick (junkyard) Grand National turbos come with an integral waste gate and are perfectly-sized for this motor. I think Tom Wolfe paid about $175 for his. The Buicks are 3.8 liters; a slant six with a .065 overbore is 3.76 liters... close enough.
FABO member PISHTA, has a method of turbo-attachment that doesn't involve welding on the stock manifold, and needs very little time to fabricate. He just takes a 2.25"-dia. piece of u-bend
tubing and attaches a flange that mates up to the stock exhaust manifold on one end, and to the turbo on the other and presto, you have your turbo manifold/mount and it is cheap and quick.
I'm sure he'd post a pic of it if we asked him to.
With the right cam choice (mild) and compression ratio (stock,) I think this suggested engine might give the 360 all it wants from a stoplight. :)
If MY turbocharged slant six car won't do that to MY supercharged 360 (low 11s) I am going to be very disappointed in it.
Talk's cheap; we'll see...:happy1:
Thanks for listening!
