Don Terrill’s Speed-Talk

one more video. At no time in the video does the throttle go past 40% or MAP go above 65kPA, yet that is enough to provoke 1st and 2nd gear rolling burnouts ..its got some power.

https://youtu.be/4qiE4-Lu9t4

Still fighting head gaskets so no dyno numbers yet but I was pretty happy with this result on getting it to idle https://youtu.be/7Bunm2COwe0 This was one of my biggest tuning fears but it seems to be working fine. Its at like 720-730 rpm in the video, original factory spec for all these engines (30...

Did you ever dyno it? Not yet. I expected that to be happening about now but I'm struggling to get the head gaskets to stay sealed. Its on leak test again now so fingers crossed 4 times is a charm. These things are known for head gasket issues and not really thinking I made the issue much worse whe...

It still needs a lot of tuning but even pig rich its pretty rev happy touching 9k before it literally ran out of gas and the fun ended.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rfVAsGHSU5w

Sorry...I realized I'd never added any kind of ending here. Hopefully it will be running well enough for the dyno soon so I can get some numbers...although at this point just running seems enough

For anyone who wondered, it does actually run now again after the failure. It had a leaking head gasket https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eFBhmTccRkE But I think it fixed everything is working right now....... only took 14 years. https://youtu.be/0ZdknPkKRwE Log looks good....1400-5200rpm, 75-115 pis ...

isn't this the very definition of politics? No, this is a response to a real threat to the Performance Racing Industry. The OP did not make a political statement. He just made a PSA. I kind of suspect it was only political when you disagreed with it....that's for clarifying where you've decide to t...

isn't this the very definition of politics?

I'm pretty sure if you feel the need to say "I know it to be true" then the post belong in P&R. For sure oil and gas production and distribution are heavily subsidized which distorts there costs. Same for electric generation and distribution. Years ago I did a womb to tomb cost analysi...

http://hcgarage.net/T-Head.htm Here is his latest thinking in side valve combustion chamber design. https://i.postimg.cc/pVw73Mqh/64-A7-DD52-D841-47-C2-B50-D-EA987-EA013-AC.jpg It looks cool but there is nothing I saw on the linked page that even suggests it adds hp???? That confused me not seeing ...

https://www.understandingnano.com/fuel-cells.html I'm not sure how much of that is actually new or commercially viable, the latter being what we struggled with the most. for sure platinum/palladium and nano particles where in play at that time. To be reliable the systems got complex, which meant ex...

I believe Shell Oil Products U.S. says fuel cells will be the ultimate solution, but being in the fuel business they would say that, wouldn't they. I used to work on Fuelcells including automotive applications including GM and Honda. That was 2000-2002, they were all the rage until you tried to bui...

Do you have a capacitor between the SS relay and the pump? Would it make any difference in reliability or how the pump runs? Ken I don't have a cap in there....never really thought about it but it does seems to make some sense. Normally when there is fuel pressure is very stable. I have the filteri...

I always worry about heat in an exhaust port.....so I thing anything you add needs to be attached to coolant flow which means a plate on the bottom to the port ids probably not a great idea. Plates in intake ports are fine, but I wouldn't do it in an exhaust port. There are some pretty small TIG tor...

Return lines are at little to no pressure so its pretty common to use plain only rubber fuel hose which is pretty cheap. Edit: forgot the most important part.....since you are running a steel line that can handle pressure you really don't have a any problem as along the the return pressure is under ...