Welsh907's winter build

Ginger said:
did you fill the water jackets with concrete or anything?
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Yessir. They're filled to the deck. If this one doesn't scatter in the next year I'm going to go big and buy a full billet carrol carter block that doesn't have water jackets. But they're $6800.
 
Ginger said:
nice, i always wondered how hot you could get them before melt down
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my motor used to run on injected methanol with an unfilled block with water (didn't know better) the "temperature" reaches right around 225* before launch and gets to about 160 by the end of the pass because of the properties of methanol. Now with a filled block i can only read cylinder temps. Cylinder temps hit an average on 960* and melting point is 1170 (found out last year)
 
i have a 358 Small block that runs on alcohol, but not nearly as powerfull as your motor.

alcohol is sweet shit, i never had to run a fan on the motor.
 
Ginger said:
i have a 358 Small block that runs on alcohol, but not nearly as powerfull as your motor.

alcohol is sweet shit, i never had to run a fan on the motor.
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Hahaha love it!

I love not having to run a radiator, water pump, fans. Saves SO much space!
 
my biggest issue lately is harmonic balancers, my class only lets you run a certain part number and i keep blowing them appart.
 
Ginger said:
my biggest issue lately is harmonic balancers, my class only lets you run a certain part number and i keep blowing them appart.
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We had that problem on my moms car. Kept breaking the outer ring on the balancer.
We finally changed over to a different one.

Im glad I don't have to run a balancer, plus, it sure is cool to watch the blower belt suck up the harmonics of a motor.
 
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So this for the silvy, right? I don't know how you'll see around it when driving.





:crazy:

Looks sweet man
 
Got it dropped in tonight.
Need to change a couple fuel lines, get a new pilot bushing, flow the barrel valve and then fire her up.
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