Need a little help getting that deal done.
Where does a guy go about finding a 4 or 5 inch diameter muffin fan that will push the 500 cfm that you mention? Assuming you can tell me where to find it -- a little trip down memory lane into some of the Physics 101 formulas like Bernoulli's law tells me I'll run into a few more problems. 1. The electric motor is going to at least draw 25 amps. Better put in an extra battery or an alternator, or both, to handle it and watch the power that's drawn down by turning the alternator, don't you think? 2. Given the size of the throats in the carb and manifold, Bernoulli's law says the engine is going to need to deal with about an extra half atmosphere of pressure at MSL. That many inches of mercury is a problem for the carb. The reason most turbo charged with carb setups you see suck through the carb rather than blowing through it is carbs generally don't like to be pressurized. It's a lot easier to turbo charge after the carb. The engine isn't going to be happy at its normally aspirated compression ratio either, which is why you see much lower compression ratios on turbocharged or supercharged engines. So besides sealing up the carb, I'm gonna need to use a fuel pump, and change pistons -- or stack a whole lot of head gaskets on top of one another and hope they hold. Probably ought to think about a waste gate and some kind of detonation sensor that will change the advance on the distributor as well. Maybe one of those water injection things. ...but speaking of injection... If you can tell me where to find that hot setup fan, still seems like a lot of work to do. Wouldn't it be easier to hide away a NOS bottle somewhere and just give it a few squirts when you get ready to pull, then a few more squirts along the way? Holley has a couple of direct port injection setups that might be easily hidden under the intake runners. Ever thought of doing it that way? let me know... Steve
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