cause what u said really wouldnt fit into the order, but no biggy thanks for the advice
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From: Longwood Florida
Originally Posted by §tingRay
hey everyone i just found this forum and i have recently came to own a real nice 1976 Corvette Stingray mint condition with 500 miles on it and a 5000 dollar paintjob from my father and well its got a new 350 engine bored 66 thousands over and i wanna make it faster, i know that u really shoulded tubro corvettes thats its not something thats really for a corvette but i want to put a 454ci engine in it and supercharge it but i also wanna supercharge this 350 in it, please let me know what u think and what i should do. ty
DO yourself a favor... Drive you car through the summer and see how much money you can save.
That is a cool car for a young guy. DRIVE it and try to save 200.00 bucks a month...
In 6 months decide. You Should have 1200 dollars and a good idea if you like your car.
If that is the case you halfway. Buy a 144 supercharger... hopefully you made some friends and .....
YOUR CAR DIDN'T BRAKE DOWN ON YOU.... get your buddies to help and slap that supercharger on...
Now you need to SAVE For A HOOD...
And Brakes....
And new cooling system...
ARE YOU STILL SAVING ????
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From: Port Washington Wisconsin
oh i no man im not gonna put a blower motor or anything like that in unless i get a spare hood so if i ever want to go back i can still have a hood w/o a hole in it, but i wanna race some of these god damn retarded hondas and acuras and **** with there 4 cylinder engines and turbos who think there car is so fast and personally i hate ricers so i know for sure my vette the way it is right now with teh 66 thousands bored new 350 with a 5 inche cam will smoke these ricers but i dont want tthem to c that i have a blower or anything cause then they wont race for money or anything
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?? what ?? better check your engine building book , the cam has no counterweights, the crank has and the inch referral on cranks is the stroke, not the coutnerweight size, for instance a 3,48" stroke crank has a rod journal that sits 3.48"/2 off center from the crank centerline giving you a total of 3,48" stroke over an entire rotation ..and where does a pistol come into all this? do you mean piston? Weight matching a set of piston is done by adding a bob weight to the cam this weight mimics the weight of the piston, rod, bolts, bearings, rings, pin, locks comdo as the reciprocating weight, then the crank is dunamically balanced on a spinning machine, much like a tire balancer and metal is removed or added to balance. An itnernally balanced crank has counterweights w/ enough mass (weight) to balance the entire reciprocating assembly, an externally balanced one relies on a balanced flywheel./flexplate and balancer to achieve total neutral balance. This is cheaper than dding heavy mallory metal which would be required if the stroke is so large that the coutnerweights have to be so large that they won't fit the crankcase (without adding expensive mallory metal)
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From: Port Washington Wisconsin
whoa whoa man i wasnt trying to be specific but i know on my engine that we had made that the bottom of the cam is 5 inches and it was made that way so we could have the pistol and and it be balanced, isnt this something every car has or is it just on this custom engine, because my conception was that the bottom of the cam for the cylinder it is attacted to was balanced with the piston, sorry if im wrong but this is something that is on my vette 
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seriously, you are not making sense at all, the cam is just a stick w/ lobes on it (and a drive gear for the distr/oilpump) and they aren't anywhere near 5" tall. The cam raises your lifters, which via the pushrods and the rocker open the valves. The piston is connected to the crankshaft via the connecting rod. The piston, piston rings, piston pin, locks, connecting rod, con rod bolts, nuts and bearing are weighed, all are matrched, a bob weight is attributed to this weight and that bob weight on the rod journal (part of the crank) is what is used to balance it. I assure you, what you are talking about is not on your vette, or in any ottomotor based engine for that matter. May I ask how old you are? (just curious)
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From: Elmhurst IL
Super charging is great but the costs are also great.
I have a 1979 corvette with nitrous It will run as fast as a super charged motor. The cost is a couple hundred dollars (350.00)
The pros of nitrous it doesn't put the extra load on the motor
when not in use only when you need it and the cost. The cons
are it doesn't have as much awe factor as a blown motor
when your pulling up to the local car show. But for speed it's just as fast.
I have a 1979 corvette with nitrous It will run as fast as a super charged motor. The cost is a couple hundred dollars (350.00)
The pros of nitrous it doesn't put the extra load on the motor
when not in use only when you need it and the cost. The cons
are it doesn't have as much awe factor as a blown motor
when your pulling up to the local car show. But for speed it's just as fast.
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From: Waterloo ontario Canada
Originally Posted by §tingRay
whoa whoa man i wasnt trying to be specific but i know on my engine that we had made that the bottom of the cam is 5 inches and it was made that way so we could have the pistol and and it be balanced, isnt this something every car has or is it just on this custom engine, because my conception was that the bottom of the cam for the cylinder it is attacted to was balanced with the piston, sorry if im wrong but this is something that is on my vette
this is totally out to lunch.
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From: Foxfield CO 1970 Convertible
I wonder if you mean "crank" instead of cam and "piston" instead of pistol? The same terms are often slightly modified during translation...
Anyway, my supercharger fits under an L88 hood. With modest boost (11 lb), I'm getting about 673hp and 750lb-ft out of a small block. There's probably a bunch more in it, but I'm not pushing it because my drive train wouldn't handle it anyway.
http://temp.corvetteforum.net/c3/zma...ginepage04.htm
Anyway, my supercharger fits under an L88 hood. With modest boost (11 lb), I'm getting about 673hp and 750lb-ft out of a small block. There's probably a bunch more in it, but I'm not pushing it because my drive train wouldn't handle it anyway.
http://temp.corvetteforum.net/c3/zma...ginepage04.htm
Last edited by Z-man; Jan 13, 2006 at 10:28 PM.