I do believe that Dayton is one of those individuals that believes bigger is
absolutely better. No Cubic inches is not the name of the game. It is a
part of a formula while looking for the answer, it is not the answer. I
would make a pretty solid guess that your 4.3 ltr weighs a considerable bit
more than my spit engine. Not to mention the fact that you now need to cut
a huge hole in the bonnet to make it fit. You now have the problem of
adding several hundred pounds to the front end of a sports car that is
already nose heavy. If I wanted to drop a 12 litre engine into a car, then
there are plenty of choices from the detroit arena. However I want a car
with real styling and handling characteristics. So tell me, how would your
car compare to mine at the local races through the slolom. Sorry, but I
don't think you would be able to stay within the cones.
Sorry, but I would rather use skill to improve on what I have rather than
dropping in a junkyard engine that will tear up all my subsystems anyhow.
Patrick
-----Original Message-----
From: dayton carpenter [mailto:djcarpen@hotmail.com]
Sent: Wednesday, January 05, 2000 8:00 PM
To: PABowen@sar.med.navy.mil; spitfires@autox.team.net
Subject: Re: Nitrous Oxide
Patrick:
Get real! Cubic Inches is the name of the game. Torque, Torque, then
Horsepower, Horsepower. The Spit engine is wimpy 1.5 liter. There is only
so much you can do with it and you still have 1.5L. So if you really want
to move that little spitfire body then replace the 1.5 with something has
some cubic inches and can be built strong enough for nitrous without putting
you in the poor house.
Dayton
>From: "Bowen, Patrick A RP2" <PABowen@sar.med.navy.mil>
>Reply-To: "Bowen, Patrick A RP2" <PABowen@sar.med.navy.mil>
>To: "'spitfires@autox.team.net'" <spitfires@autox.team.net>
>Subject: Nitrous Oxide
>Date: Wed, 5 Jan 2000 08:37:22 -0500
>
>I posted this question a couple weeks ago and I didn't have any takers or
>responses (other than a joking jibe from Fred Thomas). The winner of the
>Grassroots Motorsports $1500 Challenge was a MG Midget with Nitrous. What
>would happen if I put Nitrous into a spit engine? Has anyone ever done
>this? Any good reason not to? What is the overall experience here?
>
>It would make that Porsche look silly sitting at the light as I stream past
>him.
>
>Patrick Bowen
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