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If you can get me a couple of blanks, I can impression a key for it. It's a locksmith trick, that I learned, well when I was a locksmith. But then again I ain't no better a moderator than I am a locksmith. So I really don't have any idea what I am talking about. Like most of my posts. But if you really want it done, $50 and get some blanks. Think about it this way. It's no different than the motor blowing, it don't run with a blown motor any more than it will without the key. And its' a hell of a lot less expensive than needing to rebuild the motor to get it back on the road. But like I said, I don't know what I am talking about. graemlins/finger.gif

Well, they didn't step in on the bikes untill the Busa was doing 186 off the showroom floor, so they have a while for the cars. Car manufactures are getting their fears calmed about building high HP cars that you have to pay gashog tax on, they were scared that no one would buy the cars. But big, high power SUV's, high HP cars are selling faster than they can be built. No one seems to care about the gas being 2 bucks a gallon and driving a car that gets 15 MPG. They sell the cars every day, quickly, and although we ALL bitch about the price at the pump, we still fill it up and run it out. I don't think that the insurance thing is going to be a limiting factor either for a while. With the cutrate insurance companies around, it forces the prices down. And they will hit a point that people will really start to bitch about and they will come back down. We are in the middle of the big three's horsepower run. With NASCAR being as popular as it has become. ANd racing in general being more popular people are wanting more power, and where the imports had everyone beat with economy, the American auto manufactures have it for the performance guys and gals. This is partly that too. We all know that other than the luxury cars, there are damn few import v-8's. And the ones they have are nothing compaired to what we produce here. So this is as much the american car companies trying to get back a share of the market from Japan as it is the power struggle between the big three. Just my .02

Ahhh, it's called an MSD 7 digital pro or plus. It has fully programable RPM limit curves that will not allow to motor to rise in RPM any faster than how it is set. This would effectively act as a traction control. ANd for those that say it will not work. NHRA, in many catagorys of racing have put limits one them and require the configuration to be checked after a run at certain racing events so that they are not used in this manner.

Damn I miss having speedvision

Yeah, NAWWWWSSSSSSSSS!!!!! up to 450 HP of NAAAWWWWSSSSS! As far as the motor, 350, 010 block, four bolt of course, 40 over. Forged flat tops. Eagle H beam rods. Steel crank. Roller cam. 5oo or so lift and not sure on duration as I have not picked it out yet. Holley Pro Dominator tunnel ram with a 4150 top. two 650 double pumpers. I have a set of step tube headers for it, not the crap that is on it now, but I need to swap the header flanges out on the step tubes before I can use them. The heads are 461 casting, 2.02 intake 1.60 exhaust that have been fully ported combustion chambers polished, and exhaust ports polished. The intake runners are a secret that I will never tell. But lets just say they are rather trick. Stainless valves. I still need to get them cut for the bigger valve springs that the roller cam will require. I am staying around 500 lift because of cost and reliablity mostly. When you go 550 or better, things start to fail more often, and with the amount os spray I can run, why bother with the added expence when I can spend it on the lower end and just spray it harder.

Thay very well may be a real blower, but not for a car. Hell, I have seen Roots blowers that were the size of a car. They are used to pump air into coal mines. My guess is that this is for another application, sort of like the bilge blowers. Hell, I have a furnace bolwer here at the house. Maybe I should take to hood off the Camaro, build the duct work and slap on a power inverter. NOT!

Hmmm, 90 roll. Not that I would actually do it because it IS illegal AND against board rules, because we don't condone street racing. Give me a couple of months and I will be down with that. I still have a bit of work to do on my car. But we have to go from a dig as well and run to 190 to see who can get it there first. Now who's loaning me the 2 extra spray bottles again?? Oh teah, I forgot, http://www.foornet.net/images/trmotor.jpg It's coming together, slowly

Damn I wish I could find that in english. It would make a good safety tape for the warehousemen at work.

Yea, I guess I missed that part.

I guess that you have never screwed with RC electric cars. I have had several of the high end kits. Motor RPM's range from 19.kK to 105K for the drag motors. ANd for their size they are very high torque. That being said. When you spin ANY electric motor, or anything else that fast the forces are ungodly on it. THe one drag motor I had for the 1/10 scale drag car I had went back to be rewound 3 times. The windings would litterally fly out of the armature. So the reliability of a motor this size turning this speed would not hold together for long. Yes, there are centrifical electric superchargers, most are geared up for speed. As far as the load required, and curent requirements, yes they would be quite high. But you need to remember that a 1/2 house motor will blow 2100 CFM of air without problems, hell furnaces blowers do that with 1/3 HP motors or less, granted that there is not the backpressure on them that there is here but it's not going to take 50 HP to spin the thing either.

StockV6. Quit being a tool. NO ILLEGAL STREET RACING! SO we all know that you are not serious and are only being a tool. Please indicate that you are not serious about things like this in the future, or you will get time to consider your actions away from our law abiding board.

Damn, and I thought that having a front main let go and stripping out the crank snout threads was bad. Dude, I am way sorry to hear about your ride.

You know. In 69 and 70 they were running 200 MPH there. At least the dodge/plymouths were. It's part of the reason *** Superbirds and Daytona's were banned from NASCAR. They have choked inovation and technology ever since, everyone crys about the restrictor plates, but there is ALOT more that governs the speed of the cars besides the restrictor plates. There is no reason to believe that a different car, without any of the restrictions cound hit 275 safely on a superspeedway. But racing at that speed is another thing entirely. And I don't know that they ever will see those speeds, or for that matter, 210 at the superspeedways ever again, except for occations like this with one car on the track testing.

What size??

As well, if you would like to have someone show you the basics of welding, let me know. I do a good bit of welding myself, in almost all types of welding (haven't invested in a laser welder yeat!) and would be glad to show you.

he didn't buy it out of Johnstown by chance did he??

It takes ONE backfire to have that happen. One float of an intake valve, or even a misadjusted valve. As far as what happened there. It sounded like he shut it off then desided to fire it back up and turned back on the fuel. The motor had almost stopped and began to turn backwards, opening the intake valve with a lit cylinder under it. Like I said, it don't take much with a blower to have it come off the intake.

OK, first, you have a grand to spend. SO EFI, forget. Buy something with a carb. Second, If you are wanting performance on a budget, you need something that there are used parts around for cheap. So a small block Chevy is the first choice, followed by a small block ford. Third, find something that you like, but don't get off the beaten path too much. And foremost important, DO NOT get ideas that are way out of your reasonable abilities. a cam swap, intake and a better carb is not hard. Backhalfing a car (tubbing and narrowing the rear end) is not a first timer project.

Leathers, you should get some. a jacket and full head dress (big leather bag with helmet in it) is minimum for working under a car.

later slick

When a taxi ride costs .17 and a car cost 3000 dollars, you have to wonder how much money anyone has. If you sell a product that costs a dollar to make for .10 but no one buy's it, how much money are you loosing. I have no doubt that there are other reasons that this is happening, Yahoo does tend to lean a bit to the left in their reporting and to tend to write things to make them sound different than they actually are. But, politics aside, we do have too many regulations, pertaining to air quality, controling the building of new fuel refineries, and the transporting and taxation of all motor fuels meant to be used for over the road vehicles. This is the reason that racing fuel does not jump around as much as pump gas. It is not meant to be used in street cars, and it not taxed as such. Farmers pay NO tax on diesel fuel and gas, which is a savings of about .50 a gallon. But this fuel is ONLY sold to farmers and if you are caught with it in your fuel tank (it is marked with a red dye) the fine is really bad ($5000) and semi's are checked all the time for the dye. The tax laws also cover the manufacturing of your own fuel (soy diesel and grain alcohol) and you are required to pay the tax that you would normally pay if you were running pump gas. Also, you can NOT sell the home made fuel either without collecting these taxes and paying them to the federal, state, and possibly local goverment.

got the plumbing and electrical. Never done siding though.

syncro's are bad on second gear. TO many power shifts. That or you broke a shift fork on 1/2 gearpack, try putting it in second and see if it will move.

And what is the point of this shit???? So you can drag a fucking tanker behind you for the water injection to stave off detonation. I have seen shit similar to this on diesels. But diesel motors, of more importantly the fuel does not suffer from detonation, hell it's the whole point of getting a diesel to run is ass loads of compression. I found it interesting that there was NOTHING mentioned anywhere about the power output of this motor. Cost aside, the thing couldn't make any real power. It would hit detonation long before it would get over 4000 RPM. Considering that the MAX boost that gas, even racing fuel will take is about 28 PSI in a purpose built motor.what does that work out to per turbo. My math says 3.5 psi per turbo. Now number one, how do you keep turbos that small from spooling up quick, you basically don't. So, you switch to Methanol, it will take 40 PSI with closely controlled fuel management, but that's only 5 PSI per turbo, so it remains that you are going to get TO MUCH BOOST here, no matter what. Second, think about the heat generated, and the temp of the intake charge. Somehow I missed the intercooler, and where would you put it anyhow?? I realize that a 57 Chevy has a cargo ship sized engine compartment, but with 8 turbos and the plumbing, something ain't gonna fit, and the cooler seemed to be it. Years ago, Rick Doberton, built a Pontiac J2000 Pro Street car that was small block powered and had twin turbos feeding a double magnacharger setup. It whas cool, and it did run. But it was not built to run, and my bet it neither is this. I would not doubt that the video of *** dyno pull that is on that site was the only time that the motor was ever run, and due to the extreem heat in the exhaust that was clearly shown by the bright red headers, the exhaust valves are most likely burnt, the motor, in a non running condition will be set in the car, the car finished around it and it will be pushed on and off the trailer at car shows, never to run again. And if you don't believe it happens, I have seen MANY show car motors that had no cam , rods, pistons, rockers, valves or much else. If it wasn't showing, and it wasn't required to make it look complete it wasn't bothered with.

3,4,5,7, and 8 own my ass!!!