Post by flipflopoo1oo on Jul 13, 2014 11:44:06 GMT -6
While high compression is horse power it also has to be made first! Then the cost of it all with the icing on the cake of high octane fuel to accomplish what, that it still needs light weight everything to get past the hours on the DYNO! Parts are parts until the point of weight and stress! I already have plenty of both, thank you! The point of building your own engine and to win against all LEGAL technologies has to offer as well as car, driver and luck, is to prove to the world ( skill is not dead )!!! A blower adds a few horses after dropping compression, a turbo, nitrous, hydrogen and yes even dust particles make a bigger bang as far as horse power goes! The gain of extra horses comes from the lack of having to make compression and the burn cycle timing as well as the explosiveness and stages of the burn in relation of piston speed and crank position! Stroke verses bore and rod angles plays a large part also but first things first! The spark is the first horse power in the cycle and you are already behind after having to make your own compression! So beware of a weakness here! Developing horses is a lot like raising them! It takes the right feed to have healthy horses! Stallions are pretty to look at but the scrub mustangs still manage some how! Feed, well most are a bit on the lean side as with all fast horses! More air than fuel or just using all you can dump in comes out the same end at the same temperature! Manure, is what some might think but still used as fuel! You can produce compression by expansion of dense cold air and fuels with the heat of compression or engine cylinder temps but not engine block temps! Keeping it cold till it gets there and the valves closes gets tricky with out velocity! I can't seem to make it happen with all the large ports and area to have to pull vacuum on! Aluminum seems to have a dissipating factor that draws the heat out of hot engines and fuels but with cold already there and volume compromised, is a bit useless to me as intakes goes! If volume of flow and not trying to get it there in time without it having time to expand from heat wasn't the case at hand, I would go bigger and aluminum! The vacuum gained is all torque related to free horse power! Holding fuels and air in a refrigerated state until future notice! When burning nearly twice the fuel and air, at the verge of lean, horses run rampant over the field of light weight and dollar signs of todays technology! If only I had more rod angle to gear the push with! But that's another factor all together in the octane race of power! I can only hope this post can ease the burden of how to produce horses in-stead of the building of them! Good luck with your next engine and may it be faster!