Punished a Blown 347 T-Bird... NA
So I was driving the Vette today, and this guy in a 90s T-Bird is trying to race me. But Im ignoring him, thinking he's not worth my time. But I pull up next to him at a light, and I hear this strange gear whine, like mine but a different pitch. My first thought was that my blower gears are taking a shit, then the guy in the T-Bird gets my attention points at his hood and tells me that he's got a stroker 347 with a centrifugal blower... so the whine was coming from his car.
I decide to give him a run after hearing that, so I pull on him hard at first, jump out in front, then after a second it felt like something was wrong with my engine... like I broke something or the AFR was way rich. So I was pulling on him still, but not by a lot. Gave him a thumbs up, pulled into the parking lot and opened the hood. My intercooler pipe blew off!! Hahaha. So that's why I slowed down and it started runnig super rich. I pulled on him naturally aspirated with a messed up AFR. Suck it bitch. |
One day, when you get that thing to run properly for more than 10 minutes at a time, it's going to be fucking awesome!
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Hahaha, but that's my point. At its worst it's still awesome. Sooo suck on that sonnn. Yes, this posting was sponsored by vodka.
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One day when I have the trans fixed in the Chevelle and they re-open Fontana you'll have to come out so I can punish your Vette.
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And unless that dude REALLY knows what he was doing it was probably only making 375ish to the wheels, which would make sense why you pulled on him n/a |
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I won't run you on public roads but I like Ben's idea about running a standing mile. He's right about the Chevelle. The top speed if I run it to 6500 would be about 140. I currently run 133 in the quarter mile. We'll have to look at running the standing mile when I have the Cobra done. Right now it only has the short block in it and I'm going to be building a new engine so it's going to down a few months at the least. I have to keep it smog legal so there is no way the Cobra can come close to making the power your Vette does. That will give you a big advantage in a mile plus with your Vette having a better drag coefficient frontal area you should be able to MPH much higher than the Cobra. I might have a chance of beating you in a quater mile though. Kind of like I did Carlos. If we had been running a full mile Carlos would have killed me.
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Im gear limited to 270, suck it.
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Or how about running at the track like men are supposed to, roll racing is for fags.
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No its for people who had jobs when they built their motors, but now can't afford slick and a 12 bolt IRS upgrade.
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If you cant push it, then I guess we know who's car is faster ;)
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You're just mad that I beat a blown ford stroker NA :P
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Nah, like I said. He was probably only putting down in the 370-390 range. 90% of ford engine combos arent put together right and if I had my choice the blue car would have an ls3 instead of its whimpy little 308
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I'm actually curious about the aero difference of a C3 to a 94 Cobra. I'm not so sure the C3 is better. It's Fing huge up front with some styling curves, not so much aero curves.
enkeivette, you'd never get anywhere near your gear limitation, you'd need well over 1000WHP to push through the air at that speed, but you *might* be able to crack 200 in fith on a hard pack salt flats (not a soft lake bed of course). Ron, if you're building up your engine and have any intention to do flying mile type stuff, I'm under the ipmression ring gaps are critical for blown applications. Basically they have to be kept much looser so they can expand at the much harsher long WOT period, otherwise they can actually melt. That's what I remember from the later cobras. Actually might been the piston heads themselves that started binding in the motor. The down side of course is that you'll have a "loose" motor for more normal driving. |
enkei... how much power are you pushing?
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And a later model cobra has a completely different engine. |
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More charts and analysis. The C3 is not so good compared to modern vehicles. http://forums.corvetteforum.com/auto...nd-tunnel.html |
That's a typo, it should have been .38, not .28, either way I was wrong, close, but wrong. Its been a while since I looked but I remembered mustang werent all that far off.
Mustangs are surprisingly aerodynamic |
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Here's the lowest cd car in the world, the Paccar at 0.075. Here's apparently the lowest commercial car, the 2010 Mercedes E-class at 0.24. Even better than a Prius at 0.25! |
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Ben, I know Id never get anywhere near that top speed. Haha. And ps, I love you for that estimate.
Also, keep in mind after lower and smaller tires, my c3 is 5 inches lower than stock in the front. |
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Maybe after finishing the current projects within a generation or so, we could build a Motorgen top speed car and take it to the flats. That'd be fun.
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I filed mine to 24 and 20, minimum for the second ring was 14 but they recommended alot more. Didnt feel like fucking around to make 3hp
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I moved the other posts to their own thread to clean up everything. They're more at home there.
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