Green Car Projects Funding in Canada

2 or 4 BBL? On a 2, you'd be up into the low to mid 50's. On the 4, mid to high 40's. You can get more, but you lose on acceleration. A bigger box would keep up, though. You might want to talk to a performance shop or look it up for exhaust gas heat. You need a solder that can take the higher temps, especially for an engine that's running at almost 1 HP/ cubic inch. The 440 was about .75 HP per ci, and its only addiction was lots of gas. Good thing it had a 22 gallon tank.

 

It will be a 4BBL with a Alum intake and headers Hi Flow Cats and true duals. I was also going to make a home made ram air set up or will that be out of the question?

 

I'd say wait for the book on the Ram Air. If you push too much cold air, you'll defeat the vapouriser, unless you run the cold air past the exhaust or the vapouriser box... I'm thinking out loud here, but that would keep the vapourised fuel in its vapour state. Don't see why you couldn't except for the Ram Air ducting. My 440 always ran hot under the hood and it had a huge stock air canister for the air filter (like 20" diameter). I don't recall if the book dealt with it.

 

Sounds like a a electric fan will be of good use here to keep the engine cool and it will help reduce drag on the engine since it wouldn't have to turn a clutch and fan set up

 

Never thought of that, but it sounds good. You'll be running AC in NV, right? Maybe have a look at those new flat belts and pullies too. I read somewhere that they reduce friction on the pulleys, last longer, and save fuel too.

I'll bet a lot of folks have figured ways to tweak that block. It's basically the same block from 1955 on up. 260, 283, 302, 307, 327, 350. That's a lot of years and billions of owners who surely found ways to save on fuel. And I'll bet they went at every angle to squeeze it. Almost all the trick gimmicks were directed at the small-block chevy engine. So there's got to be some sites with info.

 

There is plenty of sites for the sbc and is a easy engine to build power cheap.If I figured right between the intake and headers with a true duals should give me right around 300HP.I can get more with a cam and head change with no problems.But I am rethinking about the heads.If I go aftermarket on the heads that breath better I can pick up more power without a cam change and have it breath better for better fuel economy.. I can also go up to a one belt system with a water pump change.

I learned it hard to get brute power and have economy it's one or the other. so this time I'm looking for dependability and economy.

 

Does my "Green" car project count???? Sorry guys had to jump in with this one.


Adam

 

Only if you solar power the headlights! I know there's a mustang with a big V12 from a Sherman Tank!

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Your's is an artist's rendering, so the paint color let's you off the hook. Mind you, there's room in the back for a methane plant...

 

He could make a steamer out of it.

 

Adam, are you gonna have any trouble registering it in Illinois? With all the mods, they won't restrict you to daylight hours or parades or car club runs?

Just thinking, because here they get downright anal on certification.

 

No, more like a snowplough!

They get a fair amount of snow there. Fourth and Vine or our Portage and Main cross-streets are so windy, that they have actually lifted people off the ground. No kidding.

They get mean snowstorms, but his garage floor hasn't got a speck of evidence that the door has been opened to the Wonders of Winter, so far.

 

No. It's Illinos....the armpit of the world. My mom lives 3 hours south of me. I register it at her address all emmision tests are gone. They leave us alone here. No safety tests here.

 

The armpit?

Cornwall, Ontario is right on the Ontario/Quebec Border. When we were kids, we used to drive through there to go to Montreal, to see my mother's mother (the wicked witch). Well Cornwall smells like a cross between a hockey and football locker room and the inside of an Army base's boot repair shop! It's attributed to the Gas refinery, a Dow Chemical plant, a whisky malt plant and an old Monks Cheese fermentation plant. It reeks!

I see armpit defining an entire region, it just chokes me up!

 

I forgot that one. How I found out, was from my grandfather. He had a few acres of farmland that he leased to an Organic Pig Farmer, who fed his pigs the whisky corn mash from the Distillery next door.

The distillery used the gas refinery's sludge to heat the kettles.

And the OKA Monks had part of their cheese fermentation done there away from the Border.