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Re: 2" Carburetor

To: "R. John Lye" <rjl@gt-classics.com>,
Subject: Re: 2" Carburetor
From: "kas kastner" <kaskas@cox.net>
Date: Sun, 7 Dec 2003 16:00:15 -0800
They'll probably work great if you have a rev range between 5500 and 9000.
Velocity, you don't have the cubes, so do it with revs......only way out.
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "R. John Lye" <rjl@gt-classics.com>
To: "Richard Taylor" <tarch@bellsouth.net>; <fot@autox.team.net>
Sent: Sunday, December 07, 2003 2:03 PM
Subject: Re: 2" Carburetor


> Hi Richard,
>        I'm (obviously) not Jack, but I can tell you of our experience
trying
> to get 2" SU's to work on Chip Bond's E-Prod TR-4.  He spent a lot of
> dyno time with those carbs, and the engine was making more and more
> horsepower on the dyno and going slower and slower on track.  My take
> on it is that the engine was making more power at the top end, but was
> giving up so much driveability that his lap times were suffering badly.
> We ended up going back to 1 3/4" SU's and he went faster again.
>
> I hope that helps,
>
> R. John Lye
>
> rjl6n@cstone.net

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