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04-22-2008, 07:00 PM
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I think a lot gets lost in the internet too, we can't see eachothers cars, we can't see sarcasm, we can't see that the guy posting maybe has a barely running bone stock car and can't figure out how to zip his pants much less turn a wrench.
I know with my car guys seeing it has a big impact, easy to dismiss a well performing car as a racecar over the net or easy to believe someone who claims a racecar is a daily driver, but seeing them in person usually straightens that stuff out.
Far as 11 seconds vs. 8 seconds probably talking 2.5 times as much power, so yeah, fair bit of difference there.
I know with my car guys seeing it has a big impact, easy to dismiss a well performing car as a racecar over the net or easy to believe someone who claims a racecar is a daily driver, but seeing them in person usually straightens that stuff out.
Far as 11 seconds vs. 8 seconds probably talking 2.5 times as much power, so yeah, fair bit of difference there.
04-22-2008, 07:22 PM
#42
More ways than one to get to your ET goal, and I don't necessarily buy the "you have to have this to do it" spiel either. Seen an LT1 intake get an N/A f-body into the 9's, but then again the engine didn't need to spin over 8k RPM to do it either. As stated in another thread, nitrous is a fairly easy way to do it too. The combination is everything.
I think most people would consider a mid 10-second street car running an LT1 intake a fairly well-performing car. There's even a pretty huge power gap between 9.5X and 10.5X.
I think most people would consider a mid 10-second street car running an LT1 intake a fairly well-performing car. There's even a pretty huge power gap between 9.5X and 10.5X.
04-23-2008, 12:31 AM
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I ran 10.40@131 with a 355 with a stock crank, LT1 castings that didn't flow worth a crap (258 cfm at .550), a hydraulic roller cam, and an LT1 intake that was lightly port matched to the heads and opened up for a 58mm TB..... The 10.40 was on a relatively modest 150 shot.... I could have run the 200 shot but never got around to it due to a bad thrust bearing.... This was at 3550 lbs raceweight as well with zero front suspension work... I had stock decarbon shocks up front for gods sake.....
To run 10's or even 9's you don't need to swap out that intake.... 8K rpms and low 9's or 8's.... Yeah cause you're gonna need another 200hp over what you had to run high 9's.... And the single plane at above 6K is gonna get you a bit of that..... you gotta find the other power somewhere else..... like dumping the LT1 castings for something with 220+ cc intake runners or larger... and forget about hydraulic roller cams..
To run 10's or even 9's you don't need to swap out that intake.... 8K rpms and low 9's or 8's.... Yeah cause you're gonna need another 200hp over what you had to run high 9's.... And the single plane at above 6K is gonna get you a bit of that..... you gotta find the other power somewhere else..... like dumping the LT1 castings for something with 220+ cc intake runners or larger... and forget about hydraulic roller cams..
