BangkokDean
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TT will this fit under the hood?
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mrvette
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Which hood?? Kenworth?? Peterbuilt??
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SuperBuickGuy
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breathtaking that should bolt right into your Chev pickup
I'm in the midst of building a twin turbo 455 Buick, and it never ceases to amaze me the problem I have with the motor. Too much hp. With turbos you can turn the wick up so far that it'll consume the motor. As recent as 10 years ago, we would build for maximum hp, and then live with the number that was 10-20% lower.... now, you can turn it up to youtube hero status (maybe youtube infammy?) and watch it blow.
with a girdle, and good h-beam rods 700-900 hp is the limit before you literally drive the crank out of the bottom of the motor. The right-sized turbos for the motor are capable of 1200 hp (as are the injectors)
I'm in the midst of building a twin turbo 455 Buick, and it never ceases to amaze me the problem I have with the motor. Too much hp. With turbos you can turn the wick up so far that it'll consume the motor. As recent as 10 years ago, we would build for maximum hp, and then live with the number that was 10-20% lower.... now, you can turn it up to youtube hero status (maybe youtube infammy?) and watch it blow.
with a girdle, and good h-beam rods 700-900 hp is the limit before you literally drive the crank out of the bottom of the motor. The right-sized turbos for the motor are capable of 1200 hp (as are the injectors)
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mrvette
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:shocking::harhar: you all NUTZ....:beer:
SuperBuickGuy
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mrvette
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HEHEHEHE Gotta LOVE IT!!!! What a great project!!! sorry to hear of your surgery a year ago or so, obviously you ok now....:friends:
Years ago a buddy had a little British car like that I forget the type, but he had a fresh engine in it, and trans overhauled, so he bought new sheet metal for it, pulled it into another friend's garage, bought a MIG welder, cut the car so much apart, only the trans tunnel held the front/back together....so he taught himself how to weld, and so painted it a terrible mess, and packed up his shit, and drove it from Wash DC region, to Prudhoe Bay National Park where the pipeline starts in upper Alaska, takes a pix of him and the mosquitoes at the park sign, and drives it home again, all without incident on the road.....He is the same guy that owns a old flower mill at the Md./ W. Va border....THAT is a story that would take a entire encyclopedia to cover....:crutches::rofl:
Twin_Turbo
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I would run that,... no problem!!
BangkokDean
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SuperBuickGuy
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dang, you folks are brutal
Twin_Turbo
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You do realize that in the mean time I probably built more cars than most folks here will in a life time right???
BangkokDean
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You do realize that in the mean time I probably built more cars than most folks here will in a life time right???
I know that, and some great work at that........................just trying to get your goat.:stirpot:
But imagine the drive line needed for that monster motor.
mrvette
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You do realize that in the mean time I probably built more cars than most folks here will in a life time right???
I know that, and some great work at that........................just trying to get your goat.:stirpot:
But imagine the drive line needed for that monster motor.
TT, what year Goats you have???:search:
SuperBuickGuy
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You do realize that in the mean time I probably built more cars than most folks here will in a life time right???
I know that, and some great work at that........................just trying to get your goat.:stirpot:
But imagine the drive line needed for that monster motor.
a driveshaft would be easy.... half shafts would be a bit difficult... the transmission would have to be a beast.
mrvette
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You do realize that in the mean time I probably built more cars than most folks here will in a life time right???
I know that, and some great work at that........................just trying to get your goat.:stirpot:
But imagine the drive line needed for that monster motor.
a driveshaft would be easy.... half shafts would be a bit difficult... the transmission would have to be a beast.
A few years ago, guys here in Orange Park/Jax were rather common about it, and putting in Ford 9" and tubbing hell outta the sharks, and driving them on the street for cruise nights....to me, it was insulting the car in a way, .....:crutches:
