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| | | | Joined: Jun 2021 Posts: 157 'Bolter | | 'Bolter Joined: Jun 2021 Posts: 157 | Just stumbled over this. Usually I'm not into turbos and injection, but never the less this is really interesting, just from a technical side, and how they solved some problems. Engine build videobest, Frank | | | | | Joined: Feb 2004 Posts: 29,860 Kettle Custodian (pot stirrer) | | Kettle Custodian (pot stirrer) Joined: Feb 2004 Posts: 29,860 | That video has been posted here about four times. The phrase "There's no substitute for cubic dollars" comes to mind. How many stovebolters can actually afford to build something like that, and for those who can, the burning question would be "WHY"?????? It seems it would make more sense to build in a moderate amount of power gain using off the shelf parts that a back yard tinkerer can afford, especially if those parts happen to come from engines made in the past 30-something years. Yes, it can be done.
Jerry
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| | | | | Joined: Jan 2019 Posts: 2,242 Herder of Cats, Goats, and Sheep (moderator) | | Herder of Cats, Goats, and Sheep (moderator) Joined: Jan 2019 Posts: 2,242 | As far as "Why?" goes. Why not? If they have the money and want to build something crazy, more power to them.
Would I do it? No, never. But there are a lot of things I do that other people tell me I am insane for. | | | | | Joined: Jun 2021 Posts: 157 'Bolter | | 'Bolter Joined: Jun 2021 Posts: 157 | As I said - I'm not into turbos, injections and stuff (though I have a water injection on one 261, but at least it is from the 50s)
But I found some interesting things in that clip, like what they did to the bearings - never saw that before.
Frank
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| | | | | Joined: Feb 2004 Posts: 29,860 Kettle Custodian (pot stirrer) | | Kettle Custodian (pot stirrer) Joined: Feb 2004 Posts: 29,860 | I'm doing something similar, using small block 400 main bearings inside the original mains, with the crankshaft ground to fit. That makes the main journals the same diameter all the way back, and the 400 mains are MUCH less expensive, and more available.
Jerry
"It is better to be silent and be thought a fool than to speak and eliminate all doubt!" - Abraham Lincoln
Cringe and wail in fear, Eloi- - - - -we Morlocks are on the hunt!
There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self. - Ernest Hemingway
Love your enemies and drive 'em nuts!
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