Dave,
I have not involved myself enough in the Nish camp to hear the figures
from Terry himself, these were reported from a secondary source and I'm
just parroting them. Pretty good secondary source however. Klein, who
built the engines, was in the middle of what was going on this week...
also from my secondary source. Quoted measurements were up to 4"
larger in dimension than a stock Chevrolet Big Block.
Nish has not run this big engine before as far as I know. It has been
sitting on an engine stand at his Laurel and Hardy shop for a while,
just waiting.
Wes
On Oct 1, 2006, at 5:09 AM, Dave Dahlgren wrote:
> If this is an N/A engine on alky I am not a believer in 3000 hp..that
> is
> 1969 ft lbs at 8000 rpm out of 673 inches..just not happening using
> anything
> that even borders on a normal engine model.2k is actually a bit of a
> strech
> as well.that only needs 1313 ft lbs at 8k rpm.. peak torque out to be
> between 1000 and 1200 on gasoline the alky adds some but not another
> 50%..
> if you are talking nitro than a whole different game.. The biggest
> problem
> is the rpm..8k is buzzing right along for something this big for any
> amount
> of time.
> Dave
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