Thread: Slant Six guys?
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Old 01-19-2009, 09:55 AM   #4
big blue galaxie
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Default Re: Slant Six guys?

Does it have a single or 2 barrel carb on it? If you want to get an idea on how it would run, take the head off and get it flowed. Then after making that determination, if you can find someone willing and able to do it, get the flow numbers with the intake manifold on, and then with the header on. Get all the numbers through .600" lift. You are going to have to buzz this thing, so since the lift is fixed, everything else is going to have to optimized for mid and top end power. Find someone that can work the valve seats to improve the numbers in the region of the cam's max lift, which should be in the .100 to .400 region. Hone the cylinders with a finish that reduces drag while maintaining excellent seal and oil control. Total Seal has an excellent ring package. Get everything balanced as finely as possible. If legal, get a Fluidamper since it controls the harmonics of that big and heavy rotating assembly better than anything else.
Drop friction and parasitic losses everywhere possible, same with the thermal losses. If the rules don't say anything about barrier coatings, deep cryotreating, Mikroniting, etc., then use them.
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