Heck, Dick...wanna buy my car? Then you could do it yourself and have the
fastest DeSoto hemi powered Sunbeam on the planet. The only one, in fact. Is
your horse power comparison made using the Desoto Hemi? Or one of the 500
plus big inch monsters? Hemi's are in fact more efficient because of the
combustion chamber. When the drags are on the tele I don't see many hemi
powered anythings except in the old musclecar classes. Todays mod motored
fords with turbos are now running in the 6's. Don't see the old timers doing
that. But heck...I like hemis also. Cool power plants.
mayf
----- Original Message -----
From: "Dick J" <lsr_man@yahoo.com>
To: "DrMayf" <drmayf@teknett.com>; "landspeedracer"
<landspeedracer@msn.com>; <land-speed@autox.team.net>
Sent: Tuesday, December 25, 2001 11:33 AM
Subject: Hemi vs Ford & Chev Controversy
> I'm not so sure you would make more HP. I am
> currently running a SBC because they are
> plentiful and easy to run. Dollar for dollar,
> they will give the cheapest horses! HP in any
> motor though, as you are well aware, is a
> complex formula of a lot of variables, but the
> final determining factor of voumentric efficiency
> is the ability to flow. Being a hemi man, I
> recently dug up some numbers to see how well an
> old hemi might do against a SBC. At the
> beginning of lift, the SBC leads. Half way
> through they are about equal. On the top end of
> lift, the hemi is so far ahead of the SBC that it
> isn't funny. Therefore, if both a hemi and a SBC
> (or Ford) were treated to all the same buildup
> goodies, I believe the hemi would put out more
> power than either the Ford or the SBC. I am also
> firmly convinced that it would be the most
> expensive to build.
>
> So there, now we have a good controversy to keep
> our "cyberlink" busy during the coming "between
> the lokidays" days off work!
>
> Dick J
///
/// land-speed@autox.team.net mailing list
/// To unsubscribe send a plain text message to majordomo@autox.team.net
/// with nothing in it but
///
/// unsubscribe land-speed
///
/// or go to http://www.team.net/cgi-bin/majorcool
///
///
|