Meme Thread... no politics

In reply to BlueInGreen - Jon :

I've taken to calling them "fecalboost". Ecobust is better I think. 

Floating Doc (Forum Supporter) said:

Ranger50 said:

Indy - Guy said:

Ranger50 said:

That can't make any more than 500-600hp because of fuel flow limitations with those carbs, and they'd need to be heavily reworked at that.  The smelling of bitch is sustained 

In reply to Pete. (l33t FS) :

I was thinking the same thing. Even if those are the big boy 48s, they can't support more than 500 without a miracle. Looks cool though. A side draft is about the sexiest thing one can expect to find under a hood. Even more so if it's attached to a turbo and feeding a pair of triangles. 

Pete. (l33t FS) said:

Indy - Guy said:

Ranger50 said:

That can't make any more than 500-600hp because of fuel flow limitations with those carbs, and they'd need to be heavily reworked at that.  The smelling of bitch is sustained 

 

Case rested.

barefootcyborg5000 said:

In reply to Pete. (l33t FS) :

I was thinking the same thing. Even if those are the big boy 48s, they can't support more than 500 without a miracle. Looks cool though. A side draft is about the sexiest thing one can expect to find under a hood. Even more so if it's attached to a turbo and feeding a pair of triangles. 

If if it's a 302, the carbs aren't the part holding back the horsepower.

Floating Doc (Forum Supporter) said:

Wait, so air filters aren't like lamp shades?  Because leaving the plastic on a lamp shade lets it stay clean and look classy for decades.

Appleseed said:

barefootcyborg5000 said:

In reply to Pete. (l33t FS) :

I was thinking the same thing. Even if those are the big boy 48s, they can't support more than 500 without a miracle. Looks cool though. A side draft is about the sexiest thing one can expect to find under a hood. Even more so if it's attached to a turbo and feeding a pair of triangles. 

If if it's a 302, the carbs aren't the part holding back the horsepower.

It's an LS.  The SUPERCHARGERS are probably a restriction 

Pete. (l33t FS) said:

Appleseed said:

barefootcyborg5000 said:

In reply to Pete. (l33t FS) :

I was thinking the same thing. Even if those are the big boy 48s, they can't support more than 500 without a miracle. Looks cool though. A side draft is about the sexiest thing one can expect to find under a hood. Even more so if it's attached to a turbo and feeding a pair of triangles. 

If if it's a 302, the carbs aren't the part holding back the horsepower.

It's an LS.  The SUPERCHARGERS are probably a restriction 

I remember Richard Holdener testing the idea of "Junkyards are full of Eaton M90s and 5.3Ls, let's combine them." The 5.3L made less power with the Eaton blower than naturally aspirated, because the M90 was just an inlet restriction.

In reply to NickD :

That is with an Eaton end-feeding blower, which has semi decent volumetric efficiency and thermal efficiency.  (90ci per revolution, figure about 80ci actual air moved, with a good chunk of that volume made up as heat)

Those blowers look like old B&M mini blowers, which had straight ish lobes for maximum blower whine.  Much less volumetric efficiency, and the thermal efficiency could actually go negative - they made so much heat from beating the air up that less airflow moved than if they were not there at all.

But they look and sound impressive 

In reply to Pete. (l33t FS) :

I've got a B&M 142 blower on my 82 Camaro, and it took it from 15.8's in the quarter to 13.6's on a low compression 350 with zero other chages..

Plus it makes a cool whine.

Pete. (l33t FS) said:

In reply to NickD :

That is with an Eaton end-feeding blower, which has semi decent volumetric efficiency and thermal efficiency.  (90ci per revolution, figure about 80ci actual air moved, with a good chunk of that volume made up as heat)

Those blowers look like old B&M mini blowers, which had straight ish lobes for maximum blower whine.  Much less volumetric efficiency, and the thermal efficiency could actually go negative - they made so much heat from beating the air up that less airflow moved than if they were not there at all.

But they look and sound impressive 

My sole complaint about the Rotrex blower on my car is how awful it sounds. It makes a rattle like a dying AC compressor. Although course workers at autocrosses say that when I'm coming at them at full song, you can hear the sheer amount of air it's ingesting in a terrifying kind of whoosh.