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- From: (Eric Youngblood)
- Subject: Re: Increasing power?
- Message-ID: <1992Jul27.191642.22967@bnr.ca>
- Sender: news@bnr.ca (News on crchh327)
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- Reply-To: Peon w/o Email priv (Eric Youngblood)
- Organization: Bell-Northern Research, Richardson, Tx
- References: <1992Jul24.133816.20347@bnr.ca> <1992Jul24.183321.25371@kronos.arc.nasa.gov> <1992Jul27.170616.21276@bnr.ca> <1992Jul27.190758.22817@bnr.ca>
- Date: Mon, 27 Jul 1992 19:16:42 GMT
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- In article <1992Jul27.170616.21276@bnr.ca>, (Eric Youngblood) writes:
- |> In article <1992Jul24.183321.25371@kronos.arc.nasa.gov>, chucko@kronos.arc.nasa.gov (Chuck Fry) writes:
- |> |> In article <1992Jul24.133816.20347@bnr.ca> Peon w/o Email priv (Eric Youngblood) writes:
- |> |> >Does anyone have any ideas on how to increase the power produced by a normally
- |> |> >aspirated V-8 engine?
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- |> [some discussion deleted]
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- |> |> All of the above sounds good for a "mild" hop-up, damn near no-hassle
- |> |> street motor. This motor should produce OK low end and dynamite
- |> |> midrange torque, and probably poop out around 5500 RPM or so.
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- |> I setup the governor to shift at ~5000 rpm based on the piston speed for the
- |> Pont 400 engine. The stroke is 3.75" which works out to a piston speed around
- |> 2750 ft/sec at 5000 rpm. I have been told that with metals and bearings of
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- Ok, so I was asleep when I wrote this. 2750 should have read 3125 ft/min.
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- Ericy
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- P.S. i ThiNk I aM AwakE nOw. |^0 ZZZZZZZZ
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