Opinion: Small motors more or less consistent than big motors?

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i would think the bigger engine would be more consistant.all the faster bracket cars are alot quicker than theyre class dialins. slowing it up it would be easier to run the same times again and again.but im not a fan of slowing any hot rod down
 
I think in terms of repeatable, you have to remove any other variable than the engine to even consider this. It's all hypothetical, but if you do that, I think the more scienced out engine will be more repeatable. Note I did not say "most hp". I said most scienced out. Because the more "figured out" an engine package is, the less the affects of climate will affect it. If I was building a bracket car, I'd want a pump gas reliable engine. Something that I don't have to open the hood for after the jet change for the weather. If the choices were 408 or 318, I'd go with the 318 because it will last forever. The 408 will need to be freshened fairly quickly comparatively speaking.
 
On a sportsman tree all I see is the second yellow. I focus on nothing else. And the faster car leaves second. So I get both advantages.
 
moper said:
I think in terms of repeatable, you have to remove any other variable than the engine to even consider this. It's all hypothetical, but if you do that, I think the more scienced out engine will be more repeatable. Note I did not say "most hp". I said most scienced out. Because the more "figured out" an engine package is, the less the affects of climate will affect it. If I was building a bracket car, I'd want a pump gas reliable engine. Something that I don't have to open the hood for after the jet change for the weather. If the choices were 408 or 318, I'd go with the 318 because it will last forever. The 408 will need to be freshened fairly quickly comparatively speaking.
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Makes sense moper. This reasoning is the same stuff I used in my decision to built a 451/470. All that factory parameter stuff tends to lend the engine durability and makes the 451 a great bracket motor that will last.. Precision macining and good parts will help a long ways towards making good reliable h.p with any combo.
 
moper said:
I think in terms of repeatable, you have to remove any other variable than the engine to even consider this. It's all hypothetical, but if you do that, I think the more scienced out engine will be more repeatable. Note I did not say "most hp". I said most scienced out. Because the more "figured out" an engine package is, the less the affects of climate will affect it. If I was building a bracket car, I'd want a pump gas reliable engine. Something that I don't have to open the hood for after the jet change for the weather. If the choices were 408 or 318, I'd go with the 318 because it will last forever. The 408 will need to be freshened fairly quickly comparatively speaking.
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When bracket racing started out people would be changing jets like crazy, later they learned that you could just change the dial in with shoe polish, then later they came out with throttle stops where you could just change the numbers in the box, one good thing about a throttle stop is you can run slower but keep almost the same MPH. My cuda would run a 6.60 @ 101 MPH wide open in Super Pro and turn on the throttle stop and would run 7.05 @ 100 MPH in the Pro class, 1-2 MPH in the 1/8th is a big advantage.
 
daredevil said:
On a sportsman tree all I see is the second yellow. I focus on nothing else. And the faster car leaves second. So I get both advantages.
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Not quite the advantage of the clean tree in theory since you could be waiting for a while if the other car is considerably slower...While the slow car always has the lights come down at the same time (no waiting). Having said that, the good racers know how to block those things out and cut a light no matter the difference in E.T.
 
The slower car doesn,t always win!
[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bmKML5BWhkY"]YouTube - Racing the 66 Dart 063[/ame]
 
I was more successful with my 12.40's 360 than my 13.30's 318, although the 318 was more consistant and I didn't redlight at all this season. But giving up 8 mph is what hurt on the big end of the track, it was much harder to fender race with a slower car. I am going to a 408 just to pick up some mph.
 
66dartman said:
I was more successful with my 12.40's 360 than my 13.30's 318, although the 318 was more consistant and I didn't redlight at all this season. But giving up 8 mph is what hurt on the big end of the track, it was much harder to fender race with a slower car. I am going to a 408 just to pick up some mph.
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Ahhhh,see the bigger is better engine theory seems to work in the real world.
 
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