New to the forum MOPAR guy

[Budnicks]

Hellow to all at canadianstreetcar.com, Here is a little my history, I am from the U.S. & California to be exact. I am a avid Mopar fan & owned many differant cars Mopars, Pontiacs, Fords, Buicks, Olds, Chevy, Jag, MG, VW & Porche & I'm lover of many brands. My 1st love is Mopar, I have been arround the hobby since 1975. I purchased a 1968 Dodge Charger R/T on my 15th B-Day for $300 that was the begining of my love affair of Mopars realy. My step father had several nice cars that I helped him work on into all hrs of the night leaning over fenders & handing him wrenchs starting arround age 7, he was a avid Drag Racer in the early 60's-mid 70's he was mainly a Pontiac Guy but owned many differant brands, My fondist memeories were of his 35 Ford pick-up with a Buick Roadmaster engine, Lasalle trans & Dana 60 rear end, I would ride arround with him in his toys he was out street racing alot at that time, healso had many GTO's from 64-72 & a 49 Indian that was his babies. We as a family allways had some sort of Mopar that was the daily driver. I grew up starting with a Taco 22 Mini Bike, then a Gocart with a 11hp motor, graduated to a motorcycle, then started Moto-X racing, when I was 15 started racing Sprints, when I got my licence. I got into Drag arcing following in my fathers foot steps. I raced from 1981-1998 all over the U.S. mostly match racing either a Blown BB 23 T Alterd or a Doorslammer of some kind from Camaro, T/A ,Cutlass , Berrata ,Roadrunner ,Charger all tube chassis cars with N20 or Blower depending on my prefferances at the time. I have raced anything from a Stock Pinto to a Pro-Mod. I am currently on my 12th Plymouth Roadrunner at the moment it's a 68 HT 383/479ci 6bbl stroker with aluminum heads, complete roller valvetrain, aluminum radiator, waterpump housing, serpintine belt system, Rack & pinion steering, Manual shifted 727 automatic trans w/3800 stall converter, oversize sway bars front & rear, gas shocks, aftermarket polished Halibrand look a like rims w/p245/60/15s on 15x7's up front & p295/50/15 on 15x9's in the rear. I have owned 26 race cars that I built all but 2 of them myself from the ground up. I am on my 100+ muscle car at the moment. I have owned many differant tow rigs & love cars in general as you can probably tell. I look forward to searching the site 1st to feel it out see were I fit in the best. then I will chime in on some posts to add my oppionions . I just wanted to introduce my eslf with a little back ground so you can see where I am coming from. I look forward to talking to all of you in due time.    Budnicks 

[TDtuffnuff]

Nice resume bud, glad you made it here and I'm sure there will be lots to talk about, when it comes to suspension dynamics or engine/tranny builds.

Welcome aboard

:)

[larrym]

Yes welcome another boost guy 

[TDtuffnuff]

Boost came to my ears.,. seems some of the newbies on this forum are quite familiar with forced induction and

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chuckles

 

[Budnicks]

Yes welcome another boost guy 

  Thanks for the welcome. No boost of late, but use to love to run Superchargers & N20, planning on a Whipple on my Dakota in the future. I don't have a whole lot of Turbo experiance but have testing experiance of some back in the late 90's.  Turbos have come leaps & bounds sence then.     Nice Buick        Budnicks

[Budnicks]

Boost came to my ears.,. seems some of the newbies on this forum are quite familiar with forced induction and

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chuckles

 

Hey Tuff how are you doing? this looks like a great site, more user friendly & Yep laughing gas was really fun, it's cheap HP if you know how to tune it properly, I don't run any on my stuff at the moment, I am considering 3 seperate spray bar plate kits under my 3 / 2bbls carbs, the center carb momemtary button activated & the outboards trigered when they are wide open, just haven't gotten to that stage yet.      Budnicks

[TDtuffnuff]

Boost came to my ears.,. seems some of the newbies on this forum are quite familiar with forced induction and

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chuckles

 

Hey Tuff how are you doing? this looks like a great site, more user friendly & Yep laughing gas was really fun, it's cheap HP if you know how to tune it properly, I don't run any on my stuff at the moment, I am considering 3 seperate spray bar plate kits under my 3 / 2bbls carbs, the center carb momemtary button activated & the outboards trigered when they are wide open, just haven't gotten to that stage yet.      Budnicks

I shelved my Gas set-up years, after I tore the center out of a perfectly good Weber clutch disc, guess I had too much bite with a Detroit locker in the rear and posi up front.,. huge sand paddle tires all around (Unlimited Class).,.
I ran direct port spray in a modded tunnel and the 300 shot came in HARD.,. it felt like I "was" a rock in a slingshot pouch.
I swung over to boost cuz it comes in more progressive and much easier for me to control.,. BUT, I'm going to give it another go, with a bit more thought applied this time.
Here is my plan.,. I'm going to run two fuel systems, one with premium pump gas and the other for VP's C-12 with.,.
so instead of retarding the timing for spray, I'm going to set the engine up to run, on motor only, on 93 octane and for spray, the second system draws C-12 with 108 octane, on juice.
I think with tuning, this can be pulled off, especially with a 3 stage system, cuz all the power in the world is useless, if it doesn't get to the ground.
Glad ya like it here Bart

:)

[Budnicks]

Tuff that set up, you are thinking of, sounds like a great Idea, you can make that work easily, just 2 different pumps & tanks. I use to run 3 systems on my 2650lb 92 TA , 1-250hp spray bar plumbed in the tunnel , 1 set of 200hp plates under the Dominators , 1-300hp dirrect port system pointing at the intake valve centerline at the bottom of the manifold , 3 seperate pumps, 1 500gal ph for the motor & 2 x 175gal ph pumps for the juice         (1 was for the port kit the other was for the spray bar & plate kit) the whole system was on relays/timers & would back the timing out 4-6 deg.s per kit depending on track conditions, talk about a plumbing & electronics nightmare, all on a Pontiac Headed 540ci 1400hp N/A (with out juice) aluminum Milidon BBC Lenco/ Crowerglide backed, "talk about a ride" the tire technology wasn't ready for that yet at the time .922 60ft not that good for that et. 6.97et 227mph at Sacramento on a Saturday crappy track test session with corrected altitude of I think arround 2500ft on a low humidity 100+degree day, remember this was back in 1998. Now a combo like that wouldn't even make the show., witha ll the 700 & 800ci combos  Good luck with your combo I think it would work great. I wrote this just to show that wierder things have been done in the past.   Budnicks

[TDtuffnuff]

Tuff that set up, you are thinking of, sounds like a great Idea, you can make that work easily, just 2 different pumps & tanks. I use to run 3 systems on my 2650lb 92 TA , 1-250hp spray bar plumbed in the tunnel , 1 set of 200hp plates under the Dominators , 1-300hp dirrect port system pointing at the intake valve centerline at the bottom of the manifold , 3 seperate pumps, 1 500gal ph for the motor & 2 x 175gal ph pumps for the juice         (1 was for the port kit the other was for the spray bar & plate kit) the whole system was on relays/timers & would back the timing out 4-6 deg.s per kit depending on track conditions, talk about a plumbing & electronics nightmare, all on a Pontiac Headed 540ci 1400hp N/A (with out juice) aluminum Milidon BBC Lenco/ Crowerglide backed, "talk about a ride" the tire technology wasn't ready for that yet at the time .922 60ft not that good for that et. 6.97et 227mph at Sacramento on a Saturday crappy track test session with corrected altitude of I think arround 2500ft on a low humidity 100+degree day, remember this was back in 1998. Now a combo like that wouldn't even make the show., witha ll the 700 & 800ci combos  Good luck with your combo I think it would work great. I wrote this just to show that wierder things have been done in the past.   Budnicks

Sounds like a wicked build you had there.,. fast forward 25 years for me, and 20 for you.,. what was once done manually with solenoids is done with better onboard electronics now, the solenoids are still electrical units.,. but are triggered by PROM and is infinitely adjustable, with a laptop and sensors.
I agree with the 3 stages coming in, so tire adhesion can keep up with forward propulsion.,. the tires get shocked enuff at launch and with a good chassis/suspension set up, it's a go.
The "smaller" 500 inchers can keep up to the big guys, but only to a point.,.
was it you that said, there is no replacement for displacement.

[Budnicks]

Tuff to answer your question, Yes . There is no replacement for displacement, except BOOST of corse. LOL.    Budnicks

[TDtuffnuff]

Juice works too.,. but boost and juice is a killer combo and next to impossible to control, unless the wheelbase is stretched, like diggers.

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[Budnicks]

Juice works too.,. but boost and juice is a killer combo and next to impossible to control, unless the wheelbase is stretched, like diggers.

:)

Tuff, I did experiment with N20 & a 871 blower on my 125" wheel base 23T Alterd, 446 11:1, ported Maxwedge heads, 871 Mert Littlefield 25% over on Alky. I used the N20 in High gear to act as a high speed lean out. It work for a while, but was way to unpredictable for my taste. I was allready going 6.90's at 190mph & would get tire spin thru the lights, a bit scarry at times. I only picked up if I remember correctly, 0.2-0.25 sec & 10-12mph, I didn't think it was worth it at the time. That had to be arround 1990 or so I think. I did love the juice in my door slammers though.     Budnicks

[larrym]

Have you guys every thought about aclohol/water injection on your forced induction applications. I can add 7 or 8 lbs of boost and a couple degrees of timing with no knock in the buick just spraying alky at the throttle body. Some normally asperated guys use the same thing when they want to run high compression motors on pump gas.

Check out the video of my controller, it can also be set up to trigger off of a TPS or a MAF signal.
http://www.viddler.com/explore/Larrymvav/videos/1/

[TDtuffnuff]

Water methanol injection has been around since the Second World War in supercharged Rolls Royce Merlin Engines.,. this only works for 2 vminutes or so, and was considered for war emergency use only.
I don't believe much has changed since then, and I'd be careful because even inaudible detonation can wreak havoc in an engine, over time.

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[larrym]

I have a knock gauge right next to the wide band. I tune for 0 knock its not always easy with the false reading you get some times. Exhaust clanking, old motor mounts and many more from a 25 year old car.