alcohol vs race gas
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with a small block hi rpm combo-- if you took the same engine[ obvious jet change ] and ran back to back dyno test with each type fuel, what would you think the difference would be in hp figures? basicly I am curious about the gain or loss that would come from only the fuel change. I know air temp and such will play a big role... just in general what would you expect to see ?
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Re: alcohol vs race gas
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This is from a very smart man (Sid Waterman told me this and it verified what I was seeing...I mention this because I've never seen some of the huge gains from alcohol as many claim but it's possible I just suck at engine building and tuning) and matched pretty close to what I already was finding.
Best carb gas to best carb alcohol: 3-4% for alcohol. Best injected gas to best injected alcohol: 3-4% for alcohol. So that means... Best carb gas to best injected alcohol: 6-8% for alcohol. So...if you are making 600 HP on carb'd gas and you switch to injected alcohol and both the carb and the injection is [censored] on tuned up you'd make 648 HP BEST CASE.
In practice, since I was building and tuning high RPM small block stuff, it was a [censored] to get the fuel curve correct without a minimum of three by passes and I could have used one more. I did play with slowing the pump down a bit, but the car got sluggish in the gear change. I was shifting at 8500-8800 at that time. There is also getting the by passes to not only open at the correct time, but they have to close at the bottom of the gear change (4 speed) at the same time and then open again. Much easier said than done.
In the end, I would go back to carb'd gas on a tunnel ram and not screw with it.
Just because you think it won't make it true. Horsepower is KING. To dispute this is stupid. C. Alston
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I had a feeling that if you tweaked the gas you could get it pretty close !! I am very aware of the consistence on alky....to me , that's the biggest pro for using it . but , I was thinking to much as usual! so I can run the gas and chase the afr a bit...not going to lose big time ? lower rpm torque improvements seems common though.
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Re: alcohol vs race gas
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Not to hijack, but Monte always claimed you could make more power on gas than alky, but never explained why. How? Anyone I know who switched to meth picked up power. I'm not sure where he said that but I'd love to read it. I suspect that he was talking about using alcohol with nitrous. In fact, I looked into it being the glutton for punishment that I am. And I was constantly told to run the engine on gas the nitrous on alcohol, bit not alcohol on both. I don't remember now exactly why that was, but I suspect the shear volume of fuel would be so great that you couldn't get big enough ports to handle the fuel, and with the latent of heat vaporization of alcohol, you'd never get enough temp in the intake tract to vaporize all the alcohol, which, as I understand it would only add to the massive fuel stratification issues present with high volumes of fuel.
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Not sure what you consider High RPM, but A fellow racer I race with, runs a chevy. He started with a race gas and carb (950 I think) that was custom build to his engine specs. Switch over to an alcohol carb (another 950, pretty sure, custom built to his specs). He picked up a few small numbers in 60' and maybe 3-4 hundredths in the 1/8. He switched to ron's toilet over the winter and picked up another 3-4 hundredths in the 1/8, but said throttle response is unreal with the toilet. That was all on track data. This past winter he freshened up his combo and dyno'd it with the gas carb, alcohol carb and toilet all on the same day. I forget the actual numbers but the gas and alcohol carb where within 10-15hp of each other and the toilet made just a little more, but he said the torque curve was better with the toilet. Each combo will like things differently but if the carb either gas or alcohol are tune properly they will preform just about the same IMO. I think he turns that combo to like 6500-6800ish its a 434.
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I love running alcohol in my bracket car because I’m lazy and it’s more consistent. I put a trap door in my fiberglass trunk lid and the only thing I do on a race day is add alcohol every round. Head guru Darrin Morgan told our class that hands down race fuel is faster and more efficient. I would never build a weekly bracket car that needs Q16 or some other high dollar fuel. To me that doesn’t make sense.
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I love running alcohol in my bracket car because I’m lazy and it’s more consistent. I put a trap door in my fiberglass trunk lid and the only thing I do on a race day is add alcohol every round. Head guru Darrin Morgan told our class that hands down race fuel is faster and more efficient. I would never build a weekly bracket car that needs Q16 or some other high dollar fuel. To me that doesn’t make sense. Certainly I'd consider alcohol for a bracket car and most things blown. Can you elaborate on why Darin thought was faster? I know it's more efficient.
Just because you think it won't make it true. Horsepower is KING. To dispute this is stupid. C. Alston
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I love running alcohol in my bracket car because I’m lazy and it’s more consistent. I put a trap door in my fiberglass trunk lid and the only thing I do on a race day is add alcohol every round. Head guru Darrin Morgan told our class that hands down race fuel is faster and more efficient. I would never build a weekly bracket car that needs Q16 or some other high dollar fuel. To me that doesn’t make sense. Certainly I'd consider alcohol for a bracket car and most things blown. Can you elaborate on why Darin thought was faster? I know it's more efficient. This was only a two day (16 hour) theory class on head porting full of formulas and tips so no he really didn't go into the subject. I know he had a deep dislike for it and he didn't try hiding it. Lol. I would sure like to have him baby sit me while I ported one intake runner. Out of that 16 hours we spent 15-20 minutes on the exhaust side discussion and everything he taught me has paid dividends.
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I love running alcohol in my bracket car because I’m lazy and it’s more consistent. I put a trap door in my fiberglass trunk lid and the only thing I do on a race day is add alcohol every round. Head guru Darrin Morgan told our class that hands down race fuel is faster and more efficient. I would never build a weekly bracket car that needs Q16 or some other high dollar fuel. To me that doesn’t make sense. Certainly I'd consider alcohol for a bracket car and most things blown. Can you elaborate on why Darin thought was faster? I know it's more efficient. I This was only a two day (16 hour) theory class on head porting full of formulas and tips so no he really didn't go into the subject. I know he had a deep dislike for it and he didn't try hiding it. Lol. I would sure like to have him baby sit me while I ported one intake runner. Out of that 16 hours we spent 15-20 minutes on the exhaust side discussion and everything he taught me has paid dividends. I've read some of his exhaust side theory on speed talk so I have a general idea of what he thinks!!! And it's not what many people think. I thought about doing one of those seminars but I never had the time. Haven't been to a PRI show since 2002 or so. I don't think Morgan is even doing those seminars anymore is he?
Just because you think it won't make it true. Horsepower is KING. To dispute this is stupid. C. Alston
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Think about double the amount of fuel suspended in the intake charge. The weight and density as compared to gasoline. Also think about the energy in any given fuel.
Gasoline is more power, just an issue of efficiency. Bracket motors, and forced induction work better on alky for reasons unrelated to efficiency.
Think about a basic bracket motor going from gas to alky. Double the fuel volume in the chamber and you've increased compression. Lower the temperature as well, and presto.
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I recently sold a complete W 9 top end to a well-known . Truck puller under his rules he could make more power with oxygenated gasoline then alcohol most of the guys in the class were converting back to gas I do not know what the Pacific rules were
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I made 863 hp on pump E85 and would turn the motor to 8800 in the car.. small block of course. seem to be hard on bearings in my opinion..
In the 8s N/A.with Brett miller W8's 5.07 at 133 at 2700lb
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