PSCA Limited Street engine build
Why is that? There's plenty of people that have made tons of power that way... what's stopping it from running right?
To be 100% honest, I am comfortable with the carb tuning, and I have people that are local to me that know it very well as well... if I can't get something working, I am sure that I have good reliable help that can get me in the right direction with it. What I absolutely don't have, is reliable EFI tuning help that is willing to go to the track with me, and I don't know it well enough myself to figure out when there's a problem, and I certainly can't afford to blow up the motor a 1/2 dozen times trying to figure it out.
If a blow thru carb is absolutely not going to work then it's making the powerplant decision alot easier to be totally honest, I'll just bail on the whole thought of anything ls based...and put a bbc in the car and call it a day. I'm 100% on my ability to get a bbc run right and make the 1200 hp I need to make to accomplish my goals.
To be 100% honest, I am comfortable with the carb tuning, and I have people that are local to me that know it very well as well... if I can't get something working, I am sure that I have good reliable help that can get me in the right direction with it. What I absolutely don't have, is reliable EFI tuning help that is willing to go to the track with me, and I don't know it well enough myself to figure out when there's a problem, and I certainly can't afford to blow up the motor a 1/2 dozen times trying to figure it out.
If a blow thru carb is absolutely not going to work then it's making the powerplant decision alot easier to be totally honest, I'll just bail on the whole thought of anything ls based...and put a bbc in the car and call it a day. I'm 100% on my ability to get a bbc run right and make the 1200 hp I need to make to accomplish my goals.
Last edited by JL ws-6; Feb 16, 2011 at 10:00 AM. Reason: Added thought...
Why is that? There's plenty of people that have made tons of power that way... what's stopping it from running right?
To be 100% honest, I am comfortable with the carb tuning, and I have people that are local to me that know it very well as well... if I can't get something working, I am sure that I have good reliable help that can get me in the right direction with it. What I absolutely don't have, is reliable EFI tuning help that is willing to go to the track with me, and I don't know it well enough myself to figure out when there's a problem, and I certainly can't afford to blow up the motor a 1/2 dozen times trying to figure it out.
If a blow thru carb is absolutely not going to work then it's making the powerplant decision alot easier to be totally honest, I'll just bail on the whole thought of anything ls based...and put a bbc in the car and call it a day. I'm 100% on my ability to get a bbc run right and make the 1200 hp I need to make to accomplish my goals.
To be 100% honest, I am comfortable with the carb tuning, and I have people that are local to me that know it very well as well... if I can't get something working, I am sure that I have good reliable help that can get me in the right direction with it. What I absolutely don't have, is reliable EFI tuning help that is willing to go to the track with me, and I don't know it well enough myself to figure out when there's a problem, and I certainly can't afford to blow up the motor a 1/2 dozen times trying to figure it out.
If a blow thru carb is absolutely not going to work then it's making the powerplant decision alot easier to be totally honest, I'll just bail on the whole thought of anything ls based...and put a bbc in the car and call it a day. I'm 100% on my ability to get a bbc run right and make the 1200 hp I need to make to accomplish my goals.
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Why is that? There's plenty of people that have made tons of power that way... what's stopping it from running right?
To be 100% honest, I am comfortable with the carb tuning, and I have people that are local to me that know it very well as well... if I can't get something working, I am sure that I have good reliable help that can get me in the right direction with it. What I absolutely don't have, is reliable EFI tuning help that is willing to go to the track with me, and I don't know it well enough myself to figure out when there's a problem, and I certainly can't afford to blow up the motor a 1/2 dozen times trying to figure it out.
If a blow thru carb is absolutely not going to work then it's making the powerplant decision alot easier to be totally honest, I'll just bail on the whole thought of anything ls based...and put a bbc in the car and call it a day. I'm 100% on my ability to get a bbc run right and make the 1200 hp I need to make to accomplish my goals.
To be 100% honest, I am comfortable with the carb tuning, and I have people that are local to me that know it very well as well... if I can't get something working, I am sure that I have good reliable help that can get me in the right direction with it. What I absolutely don't have, is reliable EFI tuning help that is willing to go to the track with me, and I don't know it well enough myself to figure out when there's a problem, and I certainly can't afford to blow up the motor a 1/2 dozen times trying to figure it out.
If a blow thru carb is absolutely not going to work then it's making the powerplant decision alot easier to be totally honest, I'll just bail on the whole thought of anything ls based...and put a bbc in the car and call it a day. I'm 100% on my ability to get a bbc run right and make the 1200 hp I need to make to accomplish my goals.
btw-making power and getting a car to et are 2 totally different things.
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more to it than that. It won't work fine. Show me one car with a blow thru that isn't atleast 3 tenth's slower than it should be
Carry on building bad *** motors.
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Your 100% correct, its all in the definition of things. It seems that the internet has definied "working fine" as any setup that will drive and run without any hiccups without any consideration of maximizing performance. I never said that it would be the optimal setup to optimize performance for the specific combination. Its just the gray area that the internet has created. I could change about 10 things on my car and it still would "work fine" just not equal to the level of precision and performance we're used to.
Carry on building bad *** motors.
Carry on building bad *** motors.
Fair enough, hopefully I can get this thing unloaded sooner then later.
I won't have a problem getting the car to ET. Just have to have a good reliable power source that I can deal with making changes to as needed, and it's becoming pretty clear that an ls engine is not going to give me that.
I won't have a problem getting the car to ET. Just have to have a good reliable power source that I can deal with making changes to as needed, and it's becoming pretty clear that an ls engine is not going to give me that.
a few update pics
Shawn at VA Speed has been awesome - the guys have so many hours in this it isn't even funny....
We're going to reverse the F1C with Dan's belt drive system once we get it in the car.
Shawn at VA Speed has been awesome - the guys have so many hours in this it isn't even funny....
We're going to reverse the F1C with Dan's belt drive system once we get it in the car.
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