Flow numbers and max HP potential
These combos are all naturally aspirated, right? Not that I am questioning anything, just tossing tinder on the fire and watching/learning. This has been a extremely interesting discussion for me.
Yes.....N/A.
The cfm x .26 x 8 can be shortened to cfm x 2.08.
Supposedly this is for some pump gas, dual plane, street combo?
Okay...... but the Wallace calculator works out to cfm x 2.055 for what they describe as a “typical race” motor.
I can tell you this.... cfm x 2.055(or 2.08) doesn’t even get you close to the max hp potential for a well thought out bracket race build.
Back in the 40’s and 50’s it was thought that it was impossible to go faster than 150mph in the 1/4 mile.
And there were formulas developed to “prove” it.
And then the Bustle Bomb went faster than 150....... and that was the end of the validity of that formula.
One key element to beat the formulas is that the combo has to be “well balanced”. By that I mean, the size of the heads vs the flow, vs the displacement, vs the CR, vs the cam, vs the induction, vs the headers.
Everything on the same page, working together.
