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[QUOTE]Originally posted by theguywhoknows: [QB] Mr Paint Job, as far as running the cars, sure, next time Sears Point is open and I'm out there, I'll run ya in my own car and I don't use slicks either :-) In fact, I'll stay off the bottle for ya too, OK? If Missy wants to race you, that is up to her, being that it is her car and I have noting to do with it. I said I'll put my money on her car on my web site because car for car (in the same catagory, comparing apples to apples), I'd indeed put my money on her car. I certainly wouldn't be stupid enough to put money on a blown, computer controlled car against a naturally aspirated VINTAGE car. Hell, if you want to play that game and think you're hot enough to run against some real nasty cars, I can always get out my old A Alcohol nostalgia dragster and run you if you want. That isn't much different than putting your blown / computer controlled car against a naturally aspirated car like Missy's. Of course your car will make more power! That is a no brainer! So you might be pretty fast for a what you have, but you aren't a low 6 second car like my other car I co-own either... And for turbo's, it is a farce that they make more power with less paracitic power loss than belt driven systems. Do the words, "exhaust restriction" mean anything? Top fueler's are THE most powerful V-8 engines on the planet. I have tinkered with a few in my day and I have numerous buddies that own top fuel boats, funny cars and dragsters, (in fact I was on several top fuel pit crews when I was younger, back in the 80's) and these boy's tip the dyno's at over 7,000HP on any given day and do they use turbo's? No way! Why? Because belt driven forced induction simply makes more power, faster. Turbo's were tried back in the early 80's on two top fueler's that I can remember, and they choked! They just couldn't do what the belt drive blowers could do (you are talking about 200 PSI of boost here, OK? Not 40 or 50 like turbo's can handle) and it was as simple as that, hence why you don't see any blown fuel turbo'd dragsters out there. There's a reason for that and with unlimited budgets, top designer's and engine builder's and anything they could possibly want in this world at their finger tips, if turbo's worked better than belt drive systems, they'd be using them. Turbo's have their place in endurance situations such as F-1, Indy, Trans-Am and so on, (whicH I also dabble in from time to time) and blowers have their place as well, but saying that removing one of my belt drive superchargers would free-up more power is so not true. Your car sounds great and please don't think I'm doggin' you or anything like that, 'cause I'm not. I just want to compare apples to apples and if you want a REAL race, it has to between the same types of cars, otherwise you might as well meet me out there when we have our other alcohol car running and believe me, we will be at half track before your rear tires are even past the christmas tree. Hey, it's all about fun man and everybody has their own thing. You have yours, Missy has her's and I have mine. Missy is only one of about 8 different other cars we have built similar to her's, (out of hundreds of cars over the years) but her's is the only local one that actually goes out and races for fun on Wednesday nights. The other cars, some a LOT faster than hers, are just show cars that wil never see the track or they just don;t play the Wednesday night deal because of the noise restrictions they have out there among other reasons. One of my employees' uncle in Napa has a street driven 41 Willy's "OutLaw" with a blown alcohol all aluminum 575 cubic inch BOSS engine (based on a BOSS 429) It has a 14-71, fuel injected system, custom made BOSS 429 heads and so on and it easily makes 2,500+HP and still cruises at Hot August Nights. Not for very long though because of the icing-up on the injectors and the alcohol consumption, but never the less, he cruises it because it IS a street car, but you wouldn't want to put your car against a car like that because again, it is like comparing apples to bananas and there is just an unfair advantage. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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