Little engines that can

[markjohnson]

NHRA Stock Eliminator will make a person crazy wondering how they are so fast compared to their streetable brethren! They may look like a slightly modified musclecar with contingency decals on them but they are light years apart. It's like comparing a donkey to American Pharaoh. At first glance they look similar but . . . .

[Day2_69Z]

That's the Best most Educated Statement I've Heard in Years if not Decades about 'Stock Class Race Cars" !!!

Night and Day doesn't even compare to that

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[Day2_69Z]

An eye n ear laser light is a prized plug tool....reading the &quot;rainbow&quot; of colors, deposits and metal loss is a guarded science.
As is exhaust exit colors and flame length.
Tuning a boosted engine whether its Nitrous, Super Charger or Turbo(s) is still done by.
&quot;Reading the Bearings&quot;

The best time to tune a carb &amp; plugs for a fine line &quot;close&quot; dial in is at night or in your Dark Trailer where you can read the Header Colors &amp; lenght of Red Hot Pipes. .. . .Decades old , old school tuning WILL NEVER BECOME a THING of the Past,
Right Sam ....?

[napa68]

I love it when you start these threads Eric! It certainly get everyone thinking. Stock and Super Stock engines are the mother of invention [img]<<GRAEMLIN_URL>>/[/img]

[WILMASBOYL78]

Sammy does his best tuning in the dark [img]<<GRAEMLIN_URL>>/rolleyes.gif[/img]

wilma

[Salvatore]

you know it Tommy!

[Thomas]

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Day2_69Z</div><div class="ubbcode-body">An eye n ear laser light is a prized plug tool....reading the &quot;rainbow&quot; of colors, deposits and metal loss is a guarded science.
As is exhaust exit colors and flame length.
Tuning a boosted engine whether its Nitrous, Super Charger or Turbo(s) is still done by.
&quot;Reading the Bearings&quot;

The best time to tune a carb &amp; plugs for a fine line &quot;close&quot; dial in is at night or in your Dark Trailer where you can read the Header Colors &amp; lenght of Red Hot Pipes. .. . .Decades old , old school tuning WILL NEVER BECOME a THING of the Past,
Right Sam ....? </div></div>

So, there is someone here who understands what I am still learning. [img]<<GRAEMLIN_URL>>/smile.gif[/img]

[novadude]

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Day2_69Z</div><div class="ubbcode-body">
The best time to tune a carb &amp; plugs for a fine line &quot;close&quot; dial in is at night or in your Dark Trailer where you can read the Header Colors &amp; lenght of Red Hot Pipes. .. . .Decades old , old school tuning WILL NEVER BECOME a THING of the Past,
Right Sam ....? </div></div>

I think it already has become a thing of the past with data loggers, widebands, etc. I run a wideband in the Nova and it's a better tool than all the plug reading voodoo.

[Day2_69Z]

$120,000 @ 850 ci.
VS
$500,000 @ 500 ci.

May have a little something to do with it

R&amp;D &amp; PROVEN RESULTS = $$$$$

[EZ Nova]

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Day2_69Z</div><div class="ubbcode-body">$120,000 @ 850 ci.
VS
$500,000 @ 500 ci.

May have a little something to do with it

R&amp;D &amp; PROVEN RESULTS = $$$$$ </div></div>

I think you a bit low on both? Not sure but I recall hearing a lease plan for 500's was about a million per year