Re: Blower ratio

[Doug Odom <dlodom@charter.net>]

OK, I'm bored, its Sunday and there is no racing on TV and the grandkids 
are outside looking for Easter eggs. Now I have no dog in this fight. 
I'm a guy that for over 40 years has only raced NA Holley carburetor 
motors. This year they are taking me kicking and screaming into the EFI 
world. Hood clearance being the reason. My thinking on blowers is that 
if you have a motor that nets 600HP by making 800HP and it takes 200HP 
to run the blower. The motor is working  hard to make 800 to only get 
600. If your parts will live at 600 and not at 800 then the crank and 
the rest of the motor is over stressed. OK jump in and tell me where I'm 
not seeing the light.   Doug Odom in big ditch

Keith Turk wrote:

> I'm kind of enjoying this....   Joe and Dave are both deeply in the 
> category of "been there, Done that"... they know the deal... 
> understand what's best and aren't accepting alternatives... ( thou Joe 
> will admit you work with what you have )...
>
> There isn't and wasn't a question of what was BEST... the question was 
> How to I make the junk I have work... I don't have the answer to 
> that... but I know 90% of lots is more then plenty often times... and 
> if it's what you have... then BY all means sort it out and run it.
>
> Dave talks a mean game... but on the end of the day he's willing to 
> run what ya got.... seen it to many times... but he's always going to 
> recommend the best... it's what he does... his living...  no issues 
> with that... but there are always alternatives...