This is a very simple little car with NO electronics used. I can rebuild either carburetor that I have to run on alcohol or blended fuel. The electric fuel pump is alcohol friendly. I'm wondering how much boost I could run and if the performance could be improved by setting this up to run E85. I can adjust the boost down considerably to reach a safe cylinder pressure. of boost which will be excessive on pump gas. 400" longer stroke, a ported head with larger stainless valves, better springs, retainers, and keepers, and a performance oriented, (roller if I can find one) camshaft. My engine package is built around a 9.5 to 1 compression ratio with turbo/nitrous capable forged pistons, six inch H-beam rods, a 181 crankshaft set up to provide a. I had the engine combination mostly worked out and then this complete '79 Buick turbo package stumbled into the picture, (I'm a sucker for weird stuff) trying to confuse the issue. I HAVE seen several used on inline 6s and even ODD FIRE V6s with no reports of problems and they are inherently safer in high performance applications.Īs many of you know, I'm working on an old Chevy II engine for a rat rod project. Ford, Chevy/GM, Chrysler race engines ALL benefited from the use of the ATI damper. ![]() ![]() MOST of my experience is with V8s in this area. This particular design, (the ATI damper) is made just for those problems and is "tunable" to help relieve and eliminate harmonics. Some of the Iron Duke cranks have fewer counter weights and most are much smaller and builders in the past have mentioned the harmonic vibration issue. I mentioned the ATI damper because of comments on another thread about harmonic vibrations as related to the four cylinders. We used a cam button on our V8s to prevent the camshaft from traveling back and forth. My other concern, the thrust issue, was just as related to the change in timing if the camshaft moved back and forth on acceleration and deceleration. I really wanted to know about the strength of the iron gear and the difference in the straight cut and the helical gear teeth. My concern with the thrust is really low. I'll know before I'm finished assembling this little guy. Again, not sure about the induced thrust from this. Yes! My oil pump will run off of the camshaft using the same gear as the distributor. I'm not sure about the inliners as I've never paid any attention to the stockers I've run or worked on. Usually, the thrust sends the camshaft deeper into the block. That's why more and more US companies are dropping inline oriented products from their catalogs and product lines. If you take that same total of US racing groups I mentioned above and get a total of the Chevy and Ford inline performance market from that, it probably wouldn't even be a full 1% of that total group. And add them all together, then multiply it by 3 or 4 times, that's how large the inline Chevy and Ford performance market is just in Brazil alone. ![]() ![]() If you were to add up all the combined US motorsports racing groups we have here from even the most entry level of street and racing genres such as dirt track, drag racing, offshore boat, asphalt oval track, karting, motorcycle, Bonneville, etc and any other form of racing we do here and indulge in. Many of these predominately inline countries outside the US have all the resources within their own countries and do not need to come to US companies for their inline needs. We need to start looking and thinking outside the box, because there are much larger inline product markets outside the US than we realize. I had forgotten about them also Rich until the light bulb went off.
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