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Re: Low buck upgrades?
[Re: Mr.Yuck]
#1131627
12/15/11 12:07 PM
12/15/11 12:07 PM
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Joined: Jun 2003
Posts: 52,972
Romeo MI
MR_P_BODY
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Joined: Jun 2003
Posts: 52,972
Romeo MI
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Not sure how much a kill switch would save you. how mauch h/p does it take to turn the alt when it's charging? 2..3 maybe. Anybody have any real world times? On my old 67 coronet I tried a few things. I disco'd the PS belt..nadda zip, Tossed a Alt belt at the line and still ran dead on 12.90, replced my HEAVY 45lb 15" Cragars w/ 14x5's and bais plys up fron...nadda 12.90. Went w/ Man steering...nadda 12.90. Now then I added 6psi of boost and dropped almost a second off the et and picked up 10mph 
Really will make a difference on how the tune up is
when you start making these changes... some of those
changes should have made a ET change but if the tune
up was wrong then it wouldnt show a change... I use
to tune it to the best I could get, then tune it to
the new change(again the best I could get) then switch
back to see what would happen......I'm a firm believer
in A-B-A changes/checks...... JMO
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Re: Low buck upgrades?
[Re: Get-X]
#1131629
12/15/11 01:21 PM
12/15/11 01:21 PM
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Joined: Jan 2003
Posts: 24,562
Brookeville, Md
Mr.Yuck
Not enough dumb comments...yet
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Not enough dumb comments...yet
Joined: Jan 2003
Posts: 24,562
Brookeville, Md
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Not sure how much a kill switch would save you. how mauch h/p does it take to turn the alt when it's charging? 2..3 maybe. Anybody have any real world times? On my old 67 coronet I tried a few things. I disco'd the PS belt..nadda zip, Tossed a Alt belt at the line and still ran dead on 12.90, replced my HEAVY 45lb 15" Cragars w/ 14x5's and bais plys up fron...nadda 12.90. Went w/ Man steering...nadda 12.90. Now then I added 6psi of boost and dropped almost a second off the et and picked up 10mph
Really will make a difference on how the tune up is
when you start making these changes... some of those
changes should have made a ET change but if the tune
up was wrong then it wouldnt show a change... I use
to tune it to the best I could get, then tune it to
the new change(again the best I could get) then switch
back to see what would happen......I'm a firm believer
in A-B-A changes/checks...... JMO
I agree Mike, thought the same thing. If you're taking a hundred pounds off of a car and see no changes, somethings not right. There is nothing more constant than weight to horsepower.
thing was tuned as tuned could be. almost stock 9:1 440. Just was topped out at 104. 3850 at it's lightest.
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I also did some research and did find out that HVH makes a 4500 to a 4150 intake adapter. But it is 2" and won't help my clearance woes. And it is 166.00!! Wilson makes a 1 1/2" open adapter for 133.00..I might look into that one.. 
