Selling a Buick and getting a 426

[motorhead]

He know what he has to do...what he is trying to do is to run as much timing as possible without detonation...h ence the alky

I get that, and I understand that he is a smart man... I just find it odd to use alcohol injection on a N/A motor when the gains will be minimal at best assuming good fuel and proper timing/enrichment is used.

[Steve Wood]

20-30 hp is about the best one can hope for, but, one can bump the timing further and assure ambient conditions don't bite.

I ran alky on a bbc back in the '80s with good success altho it was crude by todays standards.   Now you can tie it to DC and cool down the charge air quite a bit

Not everyone walks the beaten path

[larrym]

I'm surprised more guys don't spray alky for NA applications especially with higher compression motors and modern pump gas.


Been trying to talk a buddy into trying it on his bottle fed 383 stroker.

[Steve Wood]

It's not all that cost efficient unless you are trying to run close to the edge in my opinion.  It works, but you don't gain a 100 hp

On the other hand, look at what guys spend for a set of headers to get 9 hp...so maybe it is cost efficient but is simply not well understood by the na guys

[motorhead]

Not everyone walks the beaten path

Don't I know it.

I'd say he'd love an E85 conversion to realize the full potential of that 426. Again that has its limitations, and everything has its compromises.

[nocooler]

Sounds like that thing needs gears and a cam in the 250-260 duration range 

[Steve Wood]

rods and valve train won't handle that rpm

At least one guy running 10.8 on 3.06's and he apparently tried them all shifting at 6800

[nocooler]

Really.....wow .

Makes me like my LS even more. Now with some luck the clutch that they send me will shift at WOT. Waiting for the flywheel to be machined again and then it need a few hundred miles break in on it 

I'd like to see a mid/high 10 @ 128-130mph yet this year.

[Steve Wood]

I would think you would like something that you could cruise all day in and still go fast in the quarter?

The automatics have some pretty stiff gear ratios and add a good converter to that and you don't need all that gear like a stick

[nocooler]

Double over drive fixes the cruise issue.....75 mph at 1800rpm is fine with me.

Some day it'll get a 4l80e - but not right now.

[motorhead]

I am waiting on getting a 6L80E or 90E conversion for Natasha's Camaro... what an amazing piece of engineering! Someone just needs to create a stand-alone control box or an OS conversion for HPTuners.

Either that or we'll just dump the Camaro and get a CTS-V next year.

[Old Buzzard]

A REAL HEMI.........5 30" of it!

[$1987 GN$]

A REAL HEMI.........5 30" of it!

Nice Chuck yours?
Whats under the filters size wise?

AJ___

[SuperSix]

Probably some throttle bodies - it's fuel injected.

[$1987 GN$]

Probably some throttle bodies - it's fuel injected.

Yes; I was curious as to the size and  the distance, diameter  etc was. Hence could figure out some of the data.


AJ___