Motor was on dyno yesterday

[68dodge]

Had my sons motor on the dyno. It is a 440 with a 500 stroker kit, Edlebrock heads ported from Hughes racing, Hughes racing .579-.587 lift cam. super victor intake with a quick fuel 1050 cfm carb. Made 584 FT LBS torq@ 557 Hp. Not bad. I thought the HP would be a little higher. That should move his car pretty good.
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[demon seed]

Had my sons motor on the dyno. It is a 440 with a 500 stroker kit, Edlebrock heads ported from Hughes racing, Hughes racing .579-.587 lift cam. super victor intake with a quick fuel 1050 cfm carb. Made 584 FT LBS torq@ 557 Hp. Not bad. I thought the HP would be a little higher. That should move his car pretty good.
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With that combo I would have expected around 650HP, just curious, whats the CR and whos rockers are you using and their ratio. Also is that a roller or flat tappet cam.

Terry

 

[kanders]

Interesting, how the heck is my little 340 supposed to make 450hp when that BB stroker is at 584....sigh. I think easy chair dynos read a little higher than real ones LOL. Kev

 

[needsaresto]

I think it's the cam. Hughs cams seem to be geared towards torque. I ran a couple Hughs rinds through compcams program and they had very flat large torque curves but the h.p #s were down.

If I were you I'd go back and have a look at the area under the curve to see what I mean.

 

[68dodge]

I think it's the cam. Hughs cams seem to be geared towards torque. I ran a couple Hughs rinds through compcams program and they had very flat large torque curves but the h.p #s were down.

If I were you I'd go back and have a look at the area under the curve to see what I mean.

I would have to agree with you. The torque was there from the start. At 2300 RPM there was 515 Ft [email protected] HP and just was climbing. This motor is a torque monster.

 

[kanders]

Wow! 515 ft lbs at 2300 rpm. Thats a real stump puller, no problem with acceleration there.