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RE: Blower ratio

To: "Doug Odom" <dlodom@charter.net>, "Keith Turk" <kturk@ala.net>
Subject: RE: Blower ratio
From: "Dave Dahlgren" <ddahlgren@snet.net>
Date: Sun, 16 Apr 2006 13:24:20 -0400
I think he's got it..

Doug we talked data acq a while back and I tried to get back to you but
didn't. My stuff will not be done for Bonneville this year. Give a call
sometime and we can go over possibilities and budgets for whatever you
want..
Dave

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Doug Odom [mailto:dlodom@charter.net]
> Sent: Sunday, April 16, 2006 1:21 PM
> To: Keith Turk
> Cc: Glen Barrett; jkamo@rushmore.com; Dave Dahlgren; dan warner; atrav;
> LSR list
> Subject: Re: Blower ratio
>
>
> 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...




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