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A little lean and too much timing at WOT, but it pulled smoothly up to speed.
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Hahaha, I thought that was only the old Mercury 2-stroke 1150 tower of power I6 with the induction behind you. Our 115 hp with triple carbs, sounded like you were about to get inhaled into the engine when you rammed open the throttle.Re: IATs vs cramped engine bays/loss of engine power.
Although we didn't have instrumentation, the loss of power once the
engine bay got a good heat soaking was not subtle. Of course we
were feeding the Q-jet with underhood air.
The solution that we used was to mimic what the Chevy engineers
did for the '68 z-28 Trans-Am racers. Although no pictures survived
of our home-brew setup, it looks a lot like what we were using as
a guide:
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Solved our problem, much improved after the fact. Semi-unexpected side benefit was
that when we got into the secondaries it was like being in the front row of an internal
combustion concert... :0)