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| Message: | OK, I feel a wee bit of a challenge here. I'm starting to think the factory may be reading my posts on the forum. http://www.autoexpress.co.uk/news/autoexpressnews/203534/supercat_on_prowl.html So, let us see who can get to 500 HP first. Their advantage is a lot more money, bunches of engineers intimately acquainted with the engine and all its secrets, the ability to reprogram the ECM, sophisticated computer modeling programmes, very sophisticated machine shops to build prototype parts, bunches of engines to test, etc., etc. Their disadvantages are bosses, committees, etc., and the need to justify their endeavor. My advantages are almost 50 years of building and tweaking, modifying, massaging, and otherwise trying to improve factory built engines. The tenacity, patience and ability (these are synonyms for obsessive-compulsive, perfectionist, general nuttiness :-) ) to spend hours doing things like shaping and polishing ports, matching mating surfaces and port openings, and general obsessive-compulsive attention to detail. An already dyno-proven, optimized exhaust system, (Mark II, SS, version of the MacLeod X-Pipe), a spare newly ported and polished Eaton M112 (4.2 version) supercharger with new, custom built, special pulley, spare plenum chamber which I am currently porting and polishing, spare intercoolers which I have ported and polished, spare throttle body, which I am also modifying, a newly designed intake tube--soon to be built, several other plans for engine modifications, and an absurb amount of competitive genes. And, probably most important, no bosses or committees to answer to, or to whom I have to justify anything. My disadvantages: a very small budget and the need to conceal the expenditures of time and money on this project from my wife :-). The glove has been thrown down, the challenge accepted!!! | ||||
| Link: | http://www.autoexpress.co.uk/news/autoexpressnews/203534/supercat_on_prowl.html | ||||
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