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Post by confused on May 7, 2014 16:11:17 GMT -6
A lot of the BS that he dispenses went away after I blocked him. I don't see any of his gibberish and it makes for much, much nicer reading. Just a suggestion.
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Post by Deleted on May 7, 2014 16:32:29 GMT -6
A lot of the BS that he dispenses went away after I blocked him. I don't see any of his gibberish and it makes for much, much nicer reading. Just a suggestion. Best suggestion I have heard in a while! Dave
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Post by flipflopoo1oo on May 8, 2014 7:09:16 GMT -6
I Found FlipFlop! Nope, too many teeth...
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Post by flipflopoo1oo on May 8, 2014 7:31:59 GMT -6
You guys are closer than you think but he has no grease or numbers on his hat from a many a winning racing seasons of classes and countless wins! I do have less teeth and have a few magnets on my car just to get it faster and hydrogen also, which is a great boost! I want be seeing you guys at the pumps or races but if you don't use someone else's technology, how can you ever go faster! You just drive better at the flag-stand? It has been a long road and I hope you guys win as many as we have in your next thirty five years of racing! This must be a driver's forum if you can't grasp technology and see why it works! But don't feel bad, not many do without good common sense and hands on winning a few in a row to convert them over! 13/15, 28/40, or first 8/10 with 16 following! We are not talking about a home town track here! Talk is cheep but dirt racing has been FUN!!!
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Post by duckhnter83 on May 8, 2014 9:15:23 GMT -6
Flipflop is really hard to understand and make sence of his posts. It makes it hard to read through his rants start at a piston go to the right muffler bearing and back to the engine mid plate all while throwing a 90/10 shock on the steering wheel.
He may have some valid points in some ways but no structure to his posts.
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Post by Deleted on May 8, 2014 19:27:36 GMT -6
You guys are closer than you think but he has no grease or numbers on his hat from a many a winning racing seasons of classes and countless wins! I do have less teeth and have a few magnets on my car just to get it faster and hydrogen also, which is a great boost! I want be seeing you guys at the pumps or races but if you don't use someone else's technology, how can you ever go faster! You just drive better at the flag-stand? It has been a long road and I hope you guys win as many as we have in your next thirty five years of racing! This must be a driver's forum if you can't grasp technology and see why it works! But don't feel bad, not many do without good common sense and hands on winning a few in a row to convert them over! 13/15, 28/40, or first 8/10 with 16 following! We are not talking about a home town track here! Talk is cheep but dirt racing has been FUN!!! People that know me, and follow my posts, know Im not real big on telling people they are wrong, or don't know what they are talking about. I usually just say nothing. But I have never seen one person post in every topic and know everything about everything. People that know what they are doing, and have been there and won that, post specific answers to peoples questions. People like flipflop that post a bunch of generality's and never give a specific answer to a question, don't know the answer. I for sure don't come close to knowing everything, but when I post something, I try and relay my personal experiences, and if I don't have experience on the topic, I don't post! Smart People don't have to tell everyone how smart they are, people will figure it out by what they say. So Flipflop, if you know specifically how to fix something, then spell it out in detail for everyone. If all you can offer is, every track is different, and everyone drives differently, bla bla bla. Who does that help? NOBODY! Sometimes less is more. Dave
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Post by flipflopoo1oo on May 9, 2014 0:18:35 GMT -6
Yep! Not everything, just what worked for me to help others win! Sorry if I missed something in that with all the differences in tracks and drivers, the ones I have helped has won races my way! I do have a wide range of skills and been there and done that and was given a T-shirt! Lets just say that I paid attention in school and life to get to where I am today! My wording skills are weak but my mind and heart are in the right place! We ran mods 2-3 nights a week, two cars at a time for seven years straight in 4 states! 3 and 4 link, z-links, swing arms, j bar and pan, pull bars and 5th arms, many a new chassis design and setup a year but none were track to track or driver to driver friendly with out my changes to put control in a constant working range just by driver steering! I may not drive a dirt car but I know what makes horses and how to steer them left with out a brake or a wait to win with all wheels planted! Doing my best to pass it on to you guys if you want or need it! You may not if winning most of the time! A top three is hard to keep these days! Safety first, luck second and third is knowing the difference! Keep me on my toes and straighten me out but I can tell you now I am bent LEFT but not over the hill yet! OH yes and I can pick up stainless steel with a magnet using shape and similarity of conduction! I am still learning new tricks by inducing Hydrogen to make horse power more easily with-out voltage! Your choice on posting or not but we all need your input! I am for real in my posting! May be you should read all my post again if you didn't get it the first time as I have done my best! Any direct thing you wish to talk about race related will be answered truthfully to the best of my knowledge!
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Post by Krooser on May 10, 2014 23:23:45 GMT -6
Dave,
Back when I was pumping gas while I was still in high school in the 60's we had an elderly customer who always drove a new Ford with the biggest engine he could buy… went from a '61 390 to a '64 427 in three years. He always bragged about his fast cars and the fast women he had over the years.
Yeah right…
He also claimed he had played baseball with Babe Ruth when he was with Boston and later on he was traded to the Yankees where he played with Ruth again along with the other great Yankee players of the era. Then he retired and became a scout with the Yankees and, later on, for the Cleveland Indians.
We though he was a kook...
One day, years later, I was visiting my Mom and she said she had something that she clipped out of the newspaper. She said she remembered how my friends and I would laugh while telling the story of how the old guy with the fast Ford always told those lies about his baseball career. She handed me a newspaper clipping and told me to read it.
It was an obituary about the old guy we always laughed about… there was his photo along with the story of his many years in professional ball… first with the Boston team then the Yankees. He had scouted and coached for another 30 some years after leaving the playing ranks.
I was stunned… there I was staring at the face of the old man that we had dismissed as a fraud.
So I give flipflop a lot of credit for posting his thoughts on so many subjects. While many may seem to be so much jibberish, I learned long ago to give a guy the benefit of the doubt. That old newspaper story set me straight.
Now I didn't post this to try to belittle or shame you… not at all. I truly enjoy reading your responses to the questions posted here and on 4M. You have a lot of knowledge and I know your advice is sound and based on years of experience. I appreciate having you sharing that knowledge. I just felt compelled to tell you that little story… maybe I was just trying to make amends for my past racing sins and transgressions… Maybe I was trying to soften the future shock when I start telling my old racing stories about my $50.00 race cars and the beauty queens I've kissed... I don't know.
One thing I do know… when my kid finally gets his mod running this year I may try out one or two of old flipflop's suggestions… after all if everyone is doing the exact same thing… running the same engine and set-up... nobody is going to go out and kick a**. We'll just have freight train racing.
Maybe old flipflop's ideas will help somebody win… after all I've been wrong before.
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Post by flipflopoo1oo on Jul 14, 2014 21:43:38 GMT -6
I hope all you guys are still laughing and learning! Still here if needed! If my post have helped anyone please let me know or ask me to explain myself better to help others! THANKS!
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Post by powerslide on Jul 17, 2014 7:24:51 GMT -6
I know i'm late to the party but a stock 350 block any day of the week over a stock 400 block.
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Post by flipflopoo1oo on Jul 18, 2014 6:26:48 GMT -6
Any block if flowing correctly in stead of stressed to the max! Less timing on long strokes and lower compression as to change thrust angles and load! I run 18-28 on 400 cranks, 57-60 on 350 the way I get things done! Don't try this at home!!! If you have high compression and fuel that matches you don't need all that timing! If putting twice the fuel and air on low compression it takes time to get it burning! The effects on the stroke are different as to the smoothness of piston speeds and down forces! It wins and keeps winning is my only guide to go by! Never needed 4 bolts on any engine! I came up on keeping two-bolts together at 12,000 in the old days! Some big block buddies turn 9300! The era of muscle madness! My 283 street and track car, daily driver was just plain bad ass with, 427-429-460s, 440- 6 packs and 455- HOs roaming the streets and tracks. When 160 mph speed o meters were needed on most sport models! You had to know things just to compete!!!
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Post by powerslide on Jul 18, 2014 7:56:36 GMT -6
You are telling me i need to run 18-28 degrees of timing on 3.75 stroke cranks in a stock 400 block? Will it even start? We dyno our stuff and put the timing where it makes the best power, dyno doesnt lie. Well it might if the operator helps it but you get the drift. All you did by moving that timing to 18-28 is killed all the power, hence why the stock 400 block will now live.
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Post by flipflopoo1oo on Jul 18, 2014 19:17:15 GMT -6
Always more to it than just timing! Some times the rod angle to the crank at timing point and fuel burn speed top and bottom by compression changing with expanding gases in the burn comes into play! Exhaust tune and load factors change constantly while on the track! Torque curves change too with gear as load changes! I never had nothing but what wins as to testing! I may change cam degree and jetting, fuels, as well as fire power and every other thing I can to make any engine run faster! After 35 years of winning most nights out I think something is working right! A carb with a power valve on a dyno is pointless to me! I listen to the exhaust and time by ear with-out a power valve to control my burn! I move the cam where I think is best by all engine and load factors before and after checking all the numbers at 20 and 50 at the valves per size! No flow machine either but burn cleanly more fuel than any I know to make horses and torque enough to win even at 6400! If some one else's dyno was all I had we would not have been faster! Work! A lot of work in 35 years of tuning to win! Nothing in a box ever suits me except PIZZA or Ice cream! We tried it all but always the master tune to win! Have you read your plugs today? Without a power valve to control things of preconceived notions of a race engine! Was it -- this is what you have or I could only get this much or hours invested opposed to 35 years of doing what works on what you have at the time! Never did two motors the same! All builds and cars have some varying factors to deal with! Most all I tune is a total retune of car chassis, motor, gear after tune and driver awareness of what is expected on the track! Most let the horses go to their head and need to realize that driving wins and not racing! Putting a collar on a beast of a dyno-ed motor makes a better driver as to being there to be able to win! Use of the power in torque by rod angle and gear sometimes key after tuning up or down! I lessen compression by pounds of stress but put more fuel in to make it up in burn push! Temps is a big factor in flow factors to get horses made with ign. volts to blow it faster when cold as to the actual burn timing on your stroke! My 18 is not your 18 as it takes time to get more, colder, fuel burning! My HEI would melt your pistons unless fuel upgrades were made first! Even with twice the fuel, I run on the edge of lean! It takes a constant watch of number 3 plug! Weather and moisture factors! No dyno safety here!
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Post by flipflopoo1oo on Nov 30, 2014 7:02:30 GMT -6
To each as the market will bare! My bear of a engine is a 384 with the way I get it done! A .066 400 de-stroked with a NF stock 350 dimpled crank and X or O rods! Lower compression to get it to turn up and live! Open chambered heads for more room for fuel to burn longer to provide a full stroke of controlled torque! This gets rid of making compression, better control of piston speed as to a better match to my preferred fuel, less turning weight without cost, no balance issues to deal with and enables the running of only a hub up front! Variable ign. timing to stay in sink with the fuel burn and stroke limits of torque! No power valve in the carb to limit top end flow or wind-up and get tight when you need it most! A broad pulling range with use of more gear for short tracks! We never ran 3/8 tracks! Torque in the engine goes to the bottom end of the block unless managed to send it to the tires with rod angles and gear ratios! You can spend 5,000 on parts or 27,000 on a build now days!
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Post by flipflopoo1oo on Nov 30, 2014 7:44:03 GMT -6
You are telling me i need to run 18-28 degrees of timing on 3.75 stroke cranks in a stock 400 block? Will it even start? We dyno our stuff and put the timing where it makes the best power, dyno doesnt lie. Well it might if the operator helps it but you get the drift. All you did by moving that timing to 18-28 is killed all the power, hence why the stock 400 block will now live. Moving the timing just keeps the rod pushing at the right time to get the most out of its swing ratio! I have no clues to your build as to how your amount of compression tends to react with your stroke to rod length, fuel and valve timing, much less the ignition fire-power of your spark or the temps of the fuel after compression is administered to it! The dwell timing of any engine piston does have limits on stress to the bottom end or whether all is used for good start to the finish by burn timing of it all! The improvement could be on the top or bottom end of your power stroke if ign. timing is all you tune with! If you were completely loaded as the DYNO at all times it might prove to be true but with the varying loads in weights by air and speeds not to forget gears as you gain speeds it does become more technical than just where you have your locked timing like most do!
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