http://www.slantsix.org/articles/leanburn-article/leanburn-article.htm

This article, while it talks about converting a mopar 6 over to electronic, applies to anyone wanting to have a backup plan with a magnetic disti.

heh heh

At your service 

Now I put in an even bigger 292 duration .690 lift cam vs the hyd. Now I changed the exhaust and optimized the combo somewhat. I have to run all of the good hardware, better rods, pistons, studs, etc etc - added lots of $$ to the engine. I have the same raw torque number, but at a different RPM.

Look at the torque (green line vs green line).

What is changing? The RPM it is happening at, not the number itself.

If you were to look at the torque number only, you wouldn'y pay the money to modify your engine, that's for sure.

Anyone have a link to a jetaway?  Google surprisingly isn't turning up anything.

Gee I wish I would have joined this thread earlier - I could have cleared it up by saying that the torque measurement tells how much a weight can be moved (400 foot pounds - or how much effort it takes to lift 400 pounds one foot) and horsepower (how long it takes to lift that 400 lbs one foot in the air).

This is also why you have torque wrenches and not horsepower wrenches

Gee I wish I would have joined this thread earlier - I could have cleared it up by saying that the torque measurement tells how much a weight can be moved (400 foot pounds - or how much effort it takes to lift 400 pounds one foot) and horsepower (how long it takes to lift that 400 lbs one foot in the air).

(Torque x Engine speed) / 5,252 = Horsepower

5252 is the result of many formulas, including rpm's to rps, foot pound to pound feet, etc - basically take all of those conversions, and you get 5252. Because of this, the torque and hosepower lines will cross at these two points. If someone really wants me to post the real formula - I suggest you do a google search, I'm sure something will come up.

All engines make torque, all engines make horsepower.

The faster you spin an engine, with everything else equaled, the more HP it makes because the work is happening faster.

What we call a torque engine is just some term humans use to catagorize things. If the engine makes max power below 5252, the printed out dyno curve is going to make the torque curve higher than the HP curve - and humans will say it is a torque engine. Conversely if the max HP happens above the 5252 line, the HP number will look bigger - hence a HP engine.

You can run the same 1/4 mile number with a "torque" engine as with a "horsepower" engine (assuming you could make the raw average numbers the same). 
This is why we can have cummins diesels in 4x4 trucks running low 10's in the quarter mile with only 300 peek HP. 

The torque number is mostly dictated by the cubic inches, compression, and fuel - without too much you can do to change it (other than turning up the boost or adding nitrous to make the engine seem larger) - hence the reason why spinning it faster is really the only thing to do. You can't make more torque than the ci allows without boost, but you can spin it faster to make more horsepower.


Oh well, I thought this would be quick...

I run Mags. For the price of a dist. coil and MSD you can pick one up off ebay.
An MSD box  sparks for twenty degrees crankshaft rotation, mine sparks for twenty six degrees.

God I'd love to run a MAG - to bad I can't afford one (they aren't as cheap for my motor)

http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/New-Vertex-Magneto-RB-series-426-Chrysler-hemi-engines_W0QQcmdZViewItemQQ_trksidZp1638Q2em118Q2el1247QQcategoryZ33690QQihZ015QQitemZ250176737563QQrdZ1QQsspagenameZWD1V

So what does the marine version have that makes it so expensive?

My friend had the same thing happen to his boat. He's got the high dollar Teague Marine 502, he killed the throttle right as a wave hit the back of his boat and hydrolock. He has the IMCO exhaust with mega risers and tube WAY above the waterline... Definitely keep that in mind.

I love the sound of the Mopars, totally different than the rest. You can always tell when a Chevy's coming, Ford's have their own tune-especially the 4.6's but those Mopars are just mean sounding. When one of our engineers here at work brings his little Mopar (528 Hemi) to work I'll try to get some video.

When you say that he killed his throttle, you mean he shut it off or that he was idling?
I'm getting worried now...

Love to hear the hemi...

I should also add that I am going to see where the water injectors end up vs the waterline. In the olds they were slightly above or at waterline, I think the BBM will be 7-10 inches above that. Too bad I don't know of any clear exhaust hose...that would answer the question pretty quick.

Any and all comments welcome

 

Here is a mopar

What no mopar .509 cam? I love that sucka 

Love it too! But a tad too much duration 292/248 and not enough lift :-)

Plus I haven't run a hyd cam in a long time so I'd have to buy new...