http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=pl ... xTOiLK6TtU
http://garage.grumpysperformance.co...bbc-muscle-car-engine-combo.10084/#post-39412
darn that video brings back some great memories, my old race 1968 corvette with a full roll cage and dana 60 rear could easily smoke street tires well past 60 mph from a rolling start , with near zero effort, and it only had a bit over 700 hp, with a 13.7:1 cpr 496 crower injected big block, so the better suspension and better tires on the newer cars must be even more of a big grin
theres certainly advantages to using alcohol ,
significantly cooler engine temps and a bit better power without any doubts.
but one thing I learned using alcohol in any race engine was to be damn sure you remembered,
to run the engine on straight 100% gas,with a dash of MMO,
for a couple minutes before you turn it off and park the car
if you don,t youll have an amazing amount of corrosion related issues in a car thats parked for a week or more between usages
my 1968 corvette with a big block 496, running METHANOL and crower injection, it looked vaguely like this picture,when I tried alcohol for a short time,
mine was Burgundy and a chrome bumper corvette of course
that required a quick disconnect fuel cell, so I could quickly swap fuel tanks,
I had a 15 gallon fuel cell in the corvette, filed with METHANOL, and a quart of MMO, and a jury rigged 5 gallon fuel can, filled with 115 octane gas and a pint of MMO, we carried separately , too the track,
with the proper quick connect connectors to run the car from for a few minutes ,
before we parked it for any length of time to reduce the chances of corrosion.
http://garage.grumpysperformance.com/index.php?threads/build-a-496-stroker-bbc.101/#post-15067
{notice the saying Ive posted for over a decade at the bottom of each post}
" IF YOU CAN,T SMOKE THE TIRES AT WILL,FROM A 60 MPH ROLLING START YOUR ENGINE NEEDS MORE WORK!!"
http://garage.grumpysperformance.co...bbc-muscle-car-engine-combo.10084/#post-39412
darn that video brings back some great memories, my old race 1968 corvette with a full roll cage and dana 60 rear could easily smoke street tires well past 60 mph from a rolling start , with near zero effort, and it only had a bit over 700 hp, with a 13.7:1 cpr 496 crower injected big block, so the better suspension and better tires on the newer cars must be even more of a big grin
theres certainly advantages to using alcohol ,
significantly cooler engine temps and a bit better power without any doubts.
but one thing I learned using alcohol in any race engine was to be damn sure you remembered,
to run the engine on straight 100% gas,with a dash of MMO,
for a couple minutes before you turn it off and park the car
if you don,t youll have an amazing amount of corrosion related issues in a car thats parked for a week or more between usages
my 1968 corvette with a big block 496, running METHANOL and crower injection, it looked vaguely like this picture,when I tried alcohol for a short time,
mine was Burgundy and a chrome bumper corvette of course
that required a quick disconnect fuel cell, so I could quickly swap fuel tanks,
I had a 15 gallon fuel cell in the corvette, filed with METHANOL, and a quart of MMO, and a jury rigged 5 gallon fuel can, filled with 115 octane gas and a pint of MMO, we carried separately , too the track,
with the proper quick connect connectors to run the car from for a few minutes ,
before we parked it for any length of time to reduce the chances of corrosion.
http://garage.grumpysperformance.com/index.php?threads/build-a-496-stroker-bbc.101/#post-15067
{notice the saying Ive posted for over a decade at the bottom of each post}
" IF YOU CAN,T SMOKE THE TIRES AT WILL,FROM A 60 MPH ROLLING START YOUR ENGINE NEEDS MORE WORK!!"
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