DIY Classic Looking Roof Rack
You shut up you old geezer. You suck too with your mad turbo skills. Always sayin you don't know anything about them. My big old butt.
Rob,
Thanks for your all-too-kind comments, but I am not kidding; what little I know about turbocharging I learned from you guys on FABO, and the braintrust over at the Slantsix.org site. I did read a few books in the six years I have been interested in forced induction, but at my (advanced) age, you don't retain much of the printed word, unfortunately.
The "they" I refer to in this article, are the two guys who thought-up this combination I am using, and whose cars I basically, "cloned." Their help was critically-important to the completion of this exercise... More about them, later...
FORTUNATELY, a good friend has been helping me over some (mechanical) rough spots, and the car is race-ready, as we speak. We just finished installing some Yukon axles, and a spool in a 2.76:1 third member that I had lying around the garage. He has experience with CalTracs (I DO NOT,) so he adjusted them for me, and machined some wedges to go on my axle pads to reposition the rear end for a more correct pinion angle. That 2.76 is the gear ratio utilized by both their similar, 500 horsepower slant sixes (the ones that I know about,) and the owners both contend that, after experimentation, they both found that their cars run quicker and faster with that ratio than any other rear end gearset. Go figure... I always liked 4.56's/4.88's...
Proof that I apparently have NO UNDERSTANDING of how this all works...
So far, I have made a bald-faced effort to copy, closely, EVERYTHING they have done, because I just am not smart enough to figure all this stuff out on my own... so, I copy the ones who have gotten it done, already. Nothing succeeds like success!!!:cheers:
See, Rob, I didn't come up with ANY of this
on my own; it's ALL "copycat" mechanics.
Sorry to disappoint anyone, but the fact is, I was a babe in the woods... FABO member Tom Wolfe took me by the hand and showed me all the details of building a successsful turbo slant motor, with some very important additional help from FABO's Ryan Peterson (10.74 @ 127 mph.)
Shame on ME, if my car doesn't run at least, within a second of them.... They told me how to do it...
Dick Curtis, I apologize for hijacking your impressive thread... I am sorry.
