- 1. RE: Engine Config (score: 1)
- Author: "Dave Dahlgren" <ddahlgren@snet.net>
- Date: Sat, 1 Jan 2005 06:31:42 -0500
- If you read the rule book it clearly states tha a gas coupe is basically a production type car that does not meet production rules for several reasons one being an engine swap. section 4n of the 200
- /html/land-speed/2005-01/msg00002.html (9,127 bytes)
- 2. Engine Config (score: 1)
- Author: "3liter" <saltfever@comcast.net>
- Date: Sun, 2 Jan 2005 01:13:59 -0800
- I agree Dave, stock parts should have to bolt up on a Production (PRO) vehicle. However, pg. 62 says "Choices of camshafts, induction and ignition are UNLIMITED" Cylinder heads are limited to origina
- /html/land-speed/2005-01/msg00014.html (8,382 bytes)
- 3. RE: Engine Config (score: 1)
- Author: "Dave Dahlgren" <ddahlgren@snet.net>
- Date: Sun, 2 Jan 2005 06:37:04 -0500
- If you do a search on the archives i think you will find several threads about this. Dave
- /html/land-speed/2005-01/msg00015.html (8,252 bytes)
- 4. Re: Engine Config (score: 1)
- Author: "John Beckett" <saltracer@servusa.com>
- Date: Mon, 3 Jan 2005 09:02:51 -0500
- If you took a stock 23 deg Chevy head and added overhead cams what did you JB
- /html/land-speed/2005-01/msg00034.html (9,284 bytes)
- 5. Re: Engine Config (score: 1)
- Author: Want1937hd@aol.com
- Date: Mon, 3 Jan 2005 09:52:23 EST
- I've always thought the OHC allowed you to have a hemispherical compustion area with the valves at 90% to where they are on a rocker arm head. That gives better combustion and better flow. Bob in con
- /html/land-speed/2005-01/msg00035.html (7,960 bytes)
- 6. Re: Engine Config (score: 1)
- Author: "John Beckett" <saltracer@servusa.com>
- Date: Mon, 3 Jan 2005 10:56:23 -0500
- Can't do that in a /PRO class. Gotta have stock type heads. JB -- Original Message -- From: <Want1937hd@aol.com> To: <saltracer@servusa.com>; <saltfever@comcast.net>; <ddahlgren@snet.net>; <land-spee
- /html/land-speed/2005-01/msg00037.html (8,563 bytes)
- 7. Re: Engine Config (score: 1)
- Author: Ed Van Scoy <edvs@yahoo.com>
- Date: Mon, 3 Jan 2005 09:03:21 -0800 (PST)
- The Chev LT-5 top end obviously won't bolt up to a L-98 or (standard) SBC, but it would be interesting to duplicate the hemi, 4-cam, 32 Valve configuration to where it would fit... I think that would
- /html/land-speed/2005-01/msg00039.html (9,609 bytes)
- 8. RE: Engine Config (score: 1)
- Author: "James Tone" <James.Tone@AES.com>
- Date: Mon, 3 Jan 2005 09:41:00 -0800
- When did anyone start being cost effective in LSR...Look at Flatfire? Only mass production would make it cost-effectine.... Ed ________________________________________________________________________
- /html/land-speed/2005-01/msg00041.html (8,877 bytes)
- 9. RE: Engine Config (score: 1)
- Author: "Mike Meierle" <mike.meierle@alcatel.com>
- Date: Mon, 3 Jan 2005 09:40:38 -0800
- I believe Ken Walkey has some 32 Valve SBC heads, For Sale Even. Mike M. The Chev LT-5 top end obviously won't bolt up to a L-98 or (standard) SBC, but it would be interesting to duplicate the hemi,
- /html/land-speed/2005-01/msg00042.html (10,036 bytes)
- 10. RE: Engine Config (score: 1)
- Author: Ed Van Scoy <edvs@yahoo.com>
- Date: Mon, 3 Jan 2005 10:22:03 -0800 (PST)
- And I believe you're right. __________________________________ The all-new My Yahoo! - What will yours do? http://my.yahoo.com
- /html/land-speed/2005-01/msg00044.html (9,386 bytes)
- 11. RE: Engine Config (score: 1)
- Author: "3liter" <saltfever@comcast.net>
- Date: Mon, 3 Jan 2005 13:09:07 -0800
- PRO requires the same valves and port configuration ONLY. Other than that your are UNLIMITED (according to the rule book). So if you kept 2 valves, and the ports were the same bolt pattern as stock,
- /html/land-speed/2005-01/msg00047.html (9,656 bytes)
- 12. RE: Engine Config (score: 1)
- Author: "3liter" <saltfever@comcast.net>
- Date: Mon, 3 Jan 2005 13:16:10 -0800
- Ed, it depends on the class. PRO requires the EXACT same bolt pattern as stock. PRO also requires the same Valve CONFIGURATION as stock. Obviously, a hemi config is not legal. Now for GAS class why b
- /html/land-speed/2005-01/msg00048.html (8,668 bytes)
- 13. RE: Engine Config (score: 1)
- Author: "3liter" <saltfever@comcast.net>
- Date: Mon, 3 Jan 2005 13:39:24 -0800
- Me too, Dave. My "guess" is, if stock intake and exhaust can bolt up, you are UNLIMITED. I think the idea is to foster creativity (or at least don't hamstring ones desire to go crazy with a porting t
- /html/land-speed/2005-01/msg00049.html (9,274 bytes)
- 14. RE: Engine Config (score: 1)
- Author: Ed Van Scoy <edvs@yahoo.com>
- Date: Mon, 3 Jan 2005 14:05:36 -0800 (PST)
- Yeah, Elon.... I was saying that with tongue-in-cheek (you have to know me to understand my sarchasm, although I will NEVER be world- class like Dahlgren ;-) ) And I do remember the dimal dyno result
- /html/land-speed/2005-01/msg00050.html (9,627 bytes)
- 15. Re: Engine Config (score: 1)
- Author: "Richard Fox" <v4gr@rcn.com>
- Date: Mon, 3 Jan 2005 14:12:40 -0800
- I did see at Dema Elgins cam grinding establishment a pair of Drake engineering 32 valve 4 cam heads for a small block Chevy. I was told they were for a Silver State racer. RF
- /html/land-speed/2005-01/msg00051.html (8,630 bytes)
- 16. Re: Engine Config (score: 1)
- Author: "John Beckett" <saltracer@servusa.com>
- Date: Mon, 3 Jan 2005 17:47:17 -0500
- Ed, it will work in /GT but not /PRO JB -- Original Message -- From: "Ed Van Scoy" <edvs@yahoo.com> To: "John Beckett" <saltracer@servusa.com>; "3liter" <saltfever@comcast.net>; "'Dave Dahlgren'" <dd
- /html/land-speed/2005-01/msg00052.html (9,273 bytes)
- 17. RE: Engine Config (score: 1)
- Author: "Dave Dahlgren" <ddahlgren@snet.net>
- Date: Mon, 3 Jan 2005 19:24:59 -0500
- what would make you think a hemi has better combustion ? A Chrysler ad perhaps or the mystique of them that is pretty vastly overrated.. In the HP per liter deal they are not that special at all. sam
- /html/land-speed/2005-01/msg00055.html (9,479 bytes)
- 18. RE: Engine Config (score: 1)
- Author: "Dave Dahlgren" <ddahlgren@snet.net>
- Date: Mon, 3 Jan 2005 19:34:21 -0500
- I think and may be wrong that the port placement on an 18 degree head while different is the same style as a 23 degree head. IE they are next to each other unlike a SB2 or the spread port heads that
- /html/land-speed/2005-01/msg00056.html (11,187 bytes)
- 19. RE: Engine Config (score: 1)
- Author: "3liter" <saltfever@comcast.net>
- Date: Mon, 3 Jan 2005 17:08:31 -0800
- Dave, I agree. The word STOCK does NOT, repeat NOT!! appear in the rule book regarding PRO heads. Port CONFIGURATION is the control. And that has been interpreted as resembling the original heads "st
- /html/land-speed/2005-01/msg00059.html (9,260 bytes)
- 20. Re: Engine Config (score: 1)
- Author: "Chris Harris" <yesford@clear.net.nz>
- Date: Tue, 4 Jan 2005 14:09:06 +1300
- Dave, I totally agree. The hemi or similar pent roof chamber shape allows plenty of area for multiple valves. The wedge shape restricts valve area somewhat but the turbulance created by a tight squi
- /html/land-speed/2005-01/msg00060.html (8,662 bytes)
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