Thinking outside the box
Believe me, if I'd had ANY IDEA of how much it was going to cost me to supercharge this thing (and, do it right), I wouldn't have bought a blower.
As it is, I'm limited as to how much boost I can run because when I started this project, I didn't plan on supercharging it, so I thought OEM pistons would be fine... and, they would have been if it had remained normally aspirated, but it didn't.
To make this thing really work, I need some good rods and forged pistons, but my budget is not going to allow that anytime soon, so I have to limit boost to 10 pounds, which isn't all that much flow, with pi** poor heads.
Live and learn. If it'll run 12-flat quarter miles I'll be happy. We'll see...
(That's probably fast enough for a 70-year-old man in a 4-door sedan.)
Believe me, if I'd had ANY IDEA of how much it was going to cost me to supercharge this thing (and, do it right), I wouldn't have bought a blower.
As it is, I'm limited as to how much boost I can run because when I started this project, I didn't plan on supercharging it, so I thought OEM pistons would be fine... and, they would have been if it had remained normally aspirated, but it didn't.
To make this thing really work, I need some good rods and forged pistons, but my budget is not going to allow that anytime soon, so I have to limit boost to 10 pounds, which isn't all that much flow, with pi** poor heads.
Live and learn. If it'll run 12-flat quarter miles I'll be happy. We'll see...
(That's probably fast enough for a 70-year-old man in a 4-door sedan.)
