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That would be crazy, you could have it all, decent power down low and ridiculous power up top. Except to rev that high you would need a cam to feed it, and that cam would need have the VVT detuned (at the least), or like on 3V's, lock it in a set position so as to not have pistons knocking out valves, which completely defeats the purpose of having VVT.
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Dohc engines aren't liked by the hardcore drag racers which limits where the knowledgable head porters will take that head. If there isn't a market for it a lot of them won't mess with them. There will be a few guys testing the limits NA but they will have deep pockets and likely won't be sharing that stuff. I agree they will be relegated to bolt ons or boost. Just seems to be the trend with the overhead cam stuff.
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It must not suck too bad there are more than a few in the single digits. There have also been some really successful road race 4th gens so suck probably isn't the word I would choose.
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Yes true, but that is an extreme comparison, apples to apples, cubic inches is the victor. If an engine is boosted then cubic inches doesnt matter and usually only changes the powerband, N/A it is an entirely different story. What does a bigger engine ALWAYS make more of? Torque. If there are 2 engines, both at 5000rpm, one at 400tq and one at 500tq, which one will produce MORE hp. Mathematically the one with more tq. HP=Torque X RPM/5252. Displacement is a HUGE factor, something not as easily changed as as a set of heads or a cam.
lets talk about LSX. not mix modular and ls.
if you use a 225cc head on a 5.5liter motor you can rev it well past 7k and make power there. take the exact same head on a 400inch LS and it will make as much horsepower but at a lower rpm. its harder to rev a 4" stroke motor to the moon with a 225cc head.
the 400inch motor will MURDER the 5.5 in torque. so how can the little motor compete? gearing. you gear the 5.5 aggressively to pull 7500k rpms at specific MPH. where a 400inch motor will rev 6200 and pull say 50mph in 2nd, gear the 5.5 for 7500 at the same mph.
forget about 4 valve, or 2 valve, this is about a fixed head on each different displacement , with EACH combo optimized.
same power at vastly different rpms. but, the little motor wins every time. it has a gearing advantage the larger more torquey engine cant match.
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That would be crazy, you could have it all, decent power down low and ridiculous power up top. Except to rev that high you would need a cam to feed it, and that cam would need have the VVT detuned (at the least), or like on 3V's, lock it in a set position so as to not have pistons knocking out valves, which completely defeats the purpose of having VVT.
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I know you know thats not entirely true. There will never be a replacement for total volume. More RPM and FI both use the same volume more efficiently. If you had a 10000 RPM 200ci motor with X amount of airflow, and scaled it up proportionally to 500ci (obviously if the head flowed the same this is pointless) the bigger motor would always make more power. Of course, in the world of engine building we have to factor in cost and available materials so the perfect "numbers game" doesn't work, which is why small high RPM engines are successful.
The HP for your Cylinder Head Flow of 250 is 514.01 at a RPM of 5,259.01 for your engine size of 500 CID - i submit that a 180cc port on a 500 inch motor would choke long before 5200.
The HP for your Cylinder Head Flow of 250 is 514.01 at a RPM of 7,512.87 for your engine size of 350 CID
those are ideal numbers. and are simply head flow numbers converted to lb/minute and the pumping an average 500 and 350 will do.
even with FI port volume is DIRECTLY proportional to pressure ratio across that port. if a port flows 5 lb/minute at 0bar and you force 1 bar across it, the port will flow nearly double the original volume. 10 lb/minute.
5 lb/minute on a v8 per port is just less than 400hp.
10 lb/minute on a v8 per port is 80 lb/minute or just less than 800hp.
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Assasinator you are correct with what you you just posted a small engine with the right gear can beat up on larger engines, on the track. On the street cubes are where its at, since a larger engine would be more tame and streetable. Hell I had a friend that had a 302 chevy in the 9's but it spun to 10k. I wouldn't of drove that damn thing across the street if any kind of traffic was involved. Small engines can make great power but at the expense of drivability and torque.
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Assasinator you are correct with what you you just posted a small engine with the right gear can beat up on larger engines, on the track. On the street cubes are where its at, since a larger engine would be more tame and streetable. Hell I had a friend that had a 302 chevy in the 9's but it spun to 10k. I wouldn't of drove that damn thing across the street if any kind of traffic was involved. Small engines can make great power but at the expense of drivability and torque.
i imagine an f1 engine which IDLES at 9000 rpms is unmanagable with 7:1 rear end gearing.
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Assasinator you are correct with what you you just posted a small engine with the right gear can beat up on larger engines, on the track. On the street cubes are where its at, since a larger engine would be more tame and streetable. Hell I had a friend that had a 302 chevy in the 9's but it spun to 10k. I wouldn't of drove that damn thing across the street if any kind of traffic was involved. Small engines can make great power but at the expense of drivability and torque.
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or this 440 LS from LME making over 600rw N/A as well. Now that's BIG power.
http://www.camaro5.com/forums/showthread.php?t=36934
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Sorry, I missed the part where you said using the same head, I was assuming you meant two equally optimized engines. Using a fixed flow head doesn't prove rpm=displacement, it just proves the smaller motor will use up the available flow at a higher RPM, giving it a wider powerband. I'm not sure how you think this is a valid argument since nobody sets out to build a handicapped engine. If you let the big engine breathe to 7500rpm just like you let the small one, it will make more power, and also more torque which would give it the advantage assuming traction is set aside. A well built 632ci BBC can make 1200hp at 7500rpm, so whats the point of trying to spin a smaller motor to the moon to make the same power?
I'm not saying your point that the small motor can win using the proper gearing is invalid, just the way you're presenting it doesn't make much sense. You're specifically handicapping the bigger motor to prove your point.
I'm not saying your point that the small motor can win using the proper gearing is invalid, just the way you're presenting it doesn't make much sense. You're specifically handicapping the bigger motor to prove your point.
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He did that for a specific reason. He wasn't saying larger engines aren't as good or anything like that, just that smaller engines revving much higher can make the same power as a larger engine which can't physically hold together at the high rpm. He was using a set flow just to make the point. Part of the point was that smaller engines are capable of more rpm, which is why they'll equal the power if the head capability matches.
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Nowadays the the difference between the LS3 camaro's and the 2011 GT's is... basically nothing.
Most people on here know stock for stock its a drivers race. Stock for stock they dyno about the same, boltons and there still about the same,
anything more and the LS3 edges out the 5.0. Too much hype for a car that performs on par, not above.
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Did you read what i quoted? He is saying that the way it was when the LS1's came out, it is now, except now that landslide victory goes to ford. Im sorry but thats
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Ok Jeff, are you reading something here that I'm not getting?
He's saying that Mustang guys underestimated the LS1 when it came out. Which is definitely true. And he's saying that people are doing the same thing with the 5.0 now. Which is definitely true. I don't think he said anything about the 5.0 having a "landslide victory." That one was all you.
He's saying that Mustang guys underestimated the LS1 when it came out. Which is definitely true. And he's saying that people are doing the same thing with the 5.0 now. Which is definitely true. I don't think he said anything about the 5.0 having a "landslide victory." That one was all you.