Pedro,
Well what can we say, it seems you have stirred the pot with the dyno figures from Motocarb on the 427 Mustang, There are so many things that come to mind about the guru's that preside over forums like these, after 35 years in Motorsport from L-34's to Cosworth Engineering and F1 to 7.4 ltr Can Am Engines, to Grp C Sportcars (Porsche) to Nascar and Grp A & V8 Supercars building and developing these engines, I have done my time listening to the likes who have far too much time waffling on about all their greatness.
The thing that annoys me about these forums, and it is whatever forum you are on, because they all have a select few that beleive that they have a god given right to pervey their wisdom upon all. If anyone wants a copy of the dyno sheet contact me and I'll send it to you. If you want to discuss matters again please contact me and I am more tham happy to enlighten you. I am NOT any have Never portrayed myself to be a Mustang guru, however I can tell you that the engine in question was built by me in 1993 at Taylor Engines in California as have 31 other FE engines that have or currently reside in AC cobras, GT40's of a similar spec. The engine dyno used was a Froude (Heeman-Froude) and the engine ended up at 601hp @ 5860rpm. I still have the engine sheet, however the dyno calc sheet which had the Torque number, Air Temperature, Atmospheric Pressure, Barometric Pressure needed to equate the final HP figure has been misplaced over the years, however the fact is it did produce 601hp with 2 x 4bl and 2 x 735's, the engine was never dynoed with the webers until I got the car back last year. The DynoLog chassis dyno was checked and calibrated 2 weeks prior to the test being carried out. The car actually produced 443hp at the wheels before it was backed off for a more street friendly tune. the torque figure was 851@ 1750rpm stayed to 4350 where it jumped to 862 to drop to 700@6000rpm whereby there was no point pushing it to its 6400rpm cutout.
Anyway I've had my beef, It would be great if this forum would break the mould and have like minded people offering positive advice, assisting each other and asking questions instead of the current carry on by a select few. I am sure there are many more guy's out there that have a wealth of knoweldge that they sit on and not comment because of the way the forums are conducted by these selective few.
Darryl
