De-stroked SB2....1000HP
05-04-2017, 04:12 AM
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De-stroked SB2....1000HP Hi all,
Didn't really know where else to put or ask this. Sorry if this isn't advanced enough for this section.
Saw this the other day and something struck me a odd about it.
"How the heck did he get to a 260" SB2??"
The article talks about using a 2.454" stroke which makes sense, but Keith would have had to use an enormous rods on something with a deck height of 9.025". Turns out he used 6.350" rods. Wow.
Hmmm that's a rod stroke ratio of 2.6....that's getting to be F1 territory.
I understand that the long rods are a function of the stroke and deck height, but do you think there are issues (increased BDC speed/crank vibration, weird ignition curves) that would have to be addressed for that thing to live on the salt flats?
Also getting an LSR valve train to live at 9500-9800rpm is pretty impressive too, but another day/thread.
Thanks for any ideas....kind of scratching my head over here.
Ocean
Didn't really know where else to put or ask this. Sorry if this isn't advanced enough for this section.
Saw this the other day and something struck me a odd about it.
"How the heck did he get to a 260" SB2??"
The article talks about using a 2.454" stroke which makes sense, but Keith would have had to use an enormous rods on something with a deck height of 9.025". Turns out he used 6.350" rods. Wow.
Hmmm that's a rod stroke ratio of 2.6....that's getting to be F1 territory.
I understand that the long rods are a function of the stroke and deck height, but do you think there are issues (increased BDC speed/crank vibration, weird ignition curves) that would have to be addressed for that thing to live on the salt flats?
Also getting an LSR valve train to live at 9500-9800rpm is pretty impressive too, but another day/thread.
Thanks for any ideas....kind of scratching my head over here.
Ocean
05-04-2017, 11:07 AM
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F1 Rod Ratio/Air Valve Springs Hi Oceanside, thanks I enjoyed Keith's site.
My guess is a ALM SB-2 "short deck" block, I will ask Keith.
My friends in England used a 1.35 R/L in their 20K RPM engines even shorter at times.
They used Valve Springs made of AIR, thus little mass.
They, some teams, had Camless engines with Poppet Valves
They use different rules today, I am sad that art was not further developed.
Lance
My guess is a ALM SB-2 "short deck" block, I will ask Keith.
My friends in England used a 1.35 R/L in their 20K RPM engines even shorter at times.
They used Valve Springs made of AIR, thus little mass.
They, some teams, had Camless engines with Poppet Valves
They use different rules today, I am sad that art was not further developed.
Lance
05-04-2017, 03:55 PM
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We have built some 290ci or less SB2s and 13-18* engines for asphalt outlaw late models. We have the tooling here to finish up the GM aurora blocks down to a 8.200" deck height. They make good power and camshaft can be a bit funky to create a smooth not so tweeky power band.