Why are there so few blown small blocks?

Cope said
Hey welcome back!

Dont you owe me 50 bucks?

:poke::rofl:

Tuning dont scare me and I dont expect it to be easy or cheep.

Chassis, while mine ain't the best it's far from the worst. If it wont hook on springs and sliders, well I just build a 4 link.
My chassis is tight and square. ( CRT trans, ultimate converter 3,800 stall, 12 point cage, springs under the frame, mini tubs, narrowed 9" 4.88 spool , 35 spline strange axles, 29x10.5x15 Drag radials, 4 wheel disks.)

I just have a hard time leaving well enough alone.

How do I send it to you if you don't PM me. I guess I could send it to jpar (I could drive it to him tonight, but then he'd have to buy me dinner and you'd still never see the money) or you could PM me your info.

I agree, you can tune it, it's just a very, very narrow tuning window. Converter is a big deal. A clutch is actually easier but more expensive and you damn well need a data recorder. Gearing is a huge deal.

The only way to control boost is blower speed. So yeah, you can do it. You just have to hate yourself enough to want to.

One deal I worked with we could make power to about 8200 and that was it. The blower (this was a class car that was limited to a 6-71 blower...of course, we had the trick rotors and the cheater cases and all that expensive bullshit but so did everyone else) just didn't like being turned that high. I forget the overdrive but IIRC at that time it was 57% over.

So we decided to slow the blower down. Now, the car sucked hind tit in 60 and was a pig in the gear change. Dropped in a 5 speed. It helped, but wasn't right. At out weight, we had a maximum CID of 471 and we had a 4.500 bore. The Hemi guys were kicking the **** out of us. They had figured out how to turn 10k and make power. We finally took some stroke out and made power to 9500 but the 481X head is an air eater. We eventually ran with the Hemis but the learning curve was straight up.

That's the kind of crap that happens. Certainly, turbos at that time weren't where they are now. And the class is blowers only.

I have lots of grey hair from that. And the wife. Mostly the wife. But that deal made me lose sleep for sure.