View Poll Results: Should we blow it or gas it?
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ProCharge it, screw the extra weight, Forced Induction is were it is a must!
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Use the Nitrous, save the weight, Don't worry about it, It's still killer!
32 42.67%
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09-10-2005 #11
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What has to be done.....
From my years of looking at this problem you are having is to break it down into segments of need and reality.
300hp divided by 80lbs is one heck of a power to weight ratio so going with the charger is great deal of power for the money invested. You don't have to go somewhere to fill it up and if done right the computer can be detuned and retuned to make the power you want when you want it.
Next on the list is balance. With more power you can add weight to the rear and get it back along with needed traction. With the extra power you have the same power to weight ratio aspect going on again as above.
As for high speed adventure you will need the extra weight to keep the car having traction and keep it stable. In 1967 LeVan Prothero went to Bonneville and set the record at over 200mph with a big block and a car that had more than 1000lbs more weight in it to add for ballast and traction. You have to compliment power with weight at speed. Remember that top speed is based on drag and overall horsepower and weight has nothing to do with it other than how long it takes to get to top speed and without enough traction the hand of god will hold you back.
I vote for the Procharger and let it pull it's own weight and use the weight that it has to the advantage instead of looking at it as a disadvantage.
NOS also has so many problems that arise and blow up motors that it is an invitation to disaster in my book anytime you go with it just to save somewhere else. It has it place and can't be discarded from racing where it helps you out in a class that has rules and stiff competition but for a car like yours I would pass the gas refilling bottle and just turn up the boost to take up the burden of the extra weight.Plus it has been proven time again that by the end of a season the amount of money spent filling a bottle habit can pay for a blower or a turbo in most extreme cases .
Jim Nilsen
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