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 Post subject: Re: The 55: Re-Invented
PostPosted: Tue Jul 09, 2013 11:18 am 
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tommiebsmith wrote:
IF it is still a 2176cc that is alomst 2hp per cubic inch.. ASK a v8 guy just how much work/money it takes to achieve that..

Very respectable :thumbs:


Its actually a 2332 now. Its making 100 hp per liter, which is pretty decent for a pump gas motor.

For reference, the new Coyote 5L V8 Mustang motors make about 82 hp per liter.

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 Post subject: Re: The 55: Re-Invented
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Damn! Jealous!

That's all I have to say!

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 Post subject: Re: The 55: Re-Invented
PostPosted: Fri Jul 12, 2013 5:44 pm 
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I hope to have some time this weekend to start the long, ardious process of putting the engine in the car. Because of the 36 hp engine compartment, the engine has to come all the way down to a long block, everything's got to come off including all tin work, exhaust, pulley, even the valve covers, lol. Then reassemble in the car. I still have to pull the external cooler and lines and flush them out, they may have metal in them from when my oil pump ate a broken lash cap.

Funny story about my dyno numbers. Darren had told me it made 216 at 7k and 215 at 7.5k over the phone. When I went to pick up the engine and dyno sheet, I noticed that it made about the same torque at 7.5k as 7k. For a given amount of torque, horsepower goes up with RPM, therefore it cant make the same hp at 7,500 as 7,000 if the torque is the same. Darren and I checked his spreadsheet and he had an error in the formula at 7,500: it was using 7000 RPM to calculate hp insetad of 7500. So it was never making 215 at 7500, it was making 231, he just had an error on the spreadsheet. So incase any of you are wondering how I "magically" went from 215 hp @ 7500 to 231 hp at 7500, the 215 was a mistake, it was always making 231. 8-)

If anyone is interested, the formula to go from torque to hp is
hp = Torque X RPM /5252
The 5252 converts from RPM to radians per second and ft*lbs/s to hp :ugeek:

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 Post subject: Re: The 55: Re-Invented
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That's awesome hp


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 Post subject: Re: The 55: Re-Invented
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I thought that some tuning I.E. jetting and timing could of picked up the potential it had.

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Great numbers Brian :thumbs:

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 Post subject: Re: The 55: Re-Invented
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Thanks guys. I'm pretty happy with the numbers, they're even better than I had hoped for. It should be pretty nuts.

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So you now have a EI with megasquirt... just like Nick? :help:

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 Post subject: Re: The 55: Re-Invented
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69vduber wrote:
So you now have a EI with megasquirt... just like Nick? :help:


Uhhhhh, no ;)

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