WHOOOOOHOOOOOOO!!! OhmyGodOhmyGodOhmyGod......6 cylinder 200's aren't supposed to MOVE like THIS!! 20 PSI is a RUSH!!!!!!!
You are right, Will.....As soon as it cools down the wastegate goes on.
I watched to make sure I never went over 20 psi.....But you have to watch close 'cause it comes fast...This thing starts to boost like crazy right after 6 psi......with 3.73 gears and 10" slicks you just HOLD ON!
I was hoping for something comparable to a 302, and I DEFINITELY GOT IT.
It feels about as strong as the first 351W I built for the car a few years back.
Man, I haven't even really started to tune it yet. Fuel pressure hovers around 7 psi but goes right off the chart when under boost. I have a 25 psi gauge for fuel pressure and it maxed it out in no time.
This is all on 100LL avgas.
Now I need to hook up the vacuum line to the trans modulator, with a check valve and bleed orifice,
because driving it the way it is shifting is not fun.
I may have to accelerate plans to drop in a full manual C4 trans I have.
I also have a spare Tremec 3550 laying around, a little "overkill" but I don't have a T-5 to swap in.
I need to see if a machinist friend of mine is home today, so I can make a spacer for the wastegate cover to drop boost when runnning 93 octane. I'll install a manual boost controller for when on the good stuff.
The combo feels REALLY good. I will probably have to drop $300 on a wide band O2 to really see where I am at, and to get the tune nailed down (I am a perfectionist about these things) but for now, with the 71 jet and drilled PV the little 1946 Holley is doing
REALLY well.
........And this is just "Version 1.0"!!
Version 2 is in the works, with forged pistons, a ported head, ported log opened up to 2 bbl, 274 cam, maybe even a tubular Schedule 10 pipe header, we'll see.