Slant 6 Turbo 68Dart Project
No problem. Right now she's sitting in the driveway. All her coolant leaked out and she wants to be rebuilt. The coolant problem is fixable though, and I could drive it another probably year or so like that, but things like delaminating paint, and the need to not have a giant oil stain on the side of the block every time I get out of the car - are showing their head.
Bill is a wealth of info, that's why he can jack my thread all he wants. lol.
Thanks, David... I am not as smart as I NEED to be, though, as you no doubtless know: Especially about fuel injection.
I am NOT much of a fan of carburetors on blow-thru applications (regardless of the fact that both of my boosted cars use them,) for the reasons that Brandon pointed out. I am not much of a fan, but I use them because I don't know
anything about implementing a fuel injection system on these cars.
It is ignorance on my part, pure and simple, that keeps carburetors on my cars.. Nothing more.
Sad, but true... Fuel injection is not within my frame of reference; it's a fact that stares me in the face, constantly.:violent1:
Additionally, my slant six is NOT a car built to my specifications.
I have said this before, but I'll say it again because it is 100% true: I did NOT come up with the plans for the engine that is in my car. It is a bald-faced copy, a clone, actually, of the engines in Tom Wolfe's Dart and Ryan Peterson's Valiant, both 500+-horsepower 225's.
THEY did ALL the testing, R & D and parts selection, and through meticulous trial and error, came up with a parts-list that I copied, almost, "to the letter," without having to do any research on my own.
If it were not for Tom Wolfe's guidance, I would still be trying to figure out how to get the head on my engine.
No kiddding...
These guys know what they are doing.
I just copied them.
ANYBODY could do it, but, it's not cheap and it takes lot of patience, but I don't think there is a cheaper way to get a reliable 500+ horsepower.
Thanks, Tom Wolfe and Ryan Peterson, for showing me one way to make a strangulated slant into a car whose performance I can be proud of!
Right now, with only 15 pounds of boost (more, later,) it goes 12-flat at about 112 mph.... and never turns over 5,500 rpm. 2,900 pounds, with driver on board.
