Performance Questions 225 vs. 360
Oh, and Bill, that's a dang nice looking setup you got there.
Thanks, Rev! My partner in this venture built the header all by himself and did all the wiring (thank GOD!)
He has enough patience for both of us... and, it shows up in his work.
My part in this little exercise was parts procurement and cold-side plumbing design, along with engine component choices, which really, I can't take credit for because Tom Wolfe (Shaker223 on FABO) told me exactly what to buy. It's just a carbon copy of his engine with a few little detail differences here and there, and VERY similar to the motor in Ryan Peterson's car.
This "project" is basically "finished" except for tuning (which is no small thing, in itself.) It my take us a year to get the carb jetting, accelerator pump shot, stall techique and adjustments to the waste gate, blow-off-valve and alky sprayer settings at the optimum levels for the best performance.
Launching a turbo car is usually a problem because of the difficulty in building the right amount of boost at the right time, the propensity of driving through the brakes at stall, controlling the A/F ratio during the launch and tuning the chassis for maximum bite at the hit.
None of that comes as a surprise to the two old fogies who built this rolling snake-pit of problems, though, as we each have over 50 years' experience on the quarter-mile in hobby drag cars (all normally-spirated V8s.)
Our combined age (for the two of us,) is 148, so we are at a stage in life where there are few surprises.. LOL!:banghead:
As we slip into our dotage, this technical exercise will keep us with our thinking caps on, pretty much 24/7, and that's good. You know, they say that idle hands are the Devil's workshop.... er, maybe not with us; I don't think we're going to be getting into too much trouble at this stage... LOL!:cry:
Here's a picture of the two old fools installing the leaning tower of power into the engine bay for the first time... (I'm the idiot in the white coat.) Stay tuned... we'll have some test 'n' tune runs to report on in the near future, I hope.:wack:
