On Thursday 09 August 2007 14:44:30 Brien Tourville wrote: > He does examine things and give valid reasons for his ideas -- such as > turboing a 196. > > He looks at the block and head castings and the crank and rods. > > It's a heavy casting with forged crank and rods. > > The valves are a bit small and the intake tract a bit restrictive, but > pressure overcomes that. > > So it is in theory a good turbo candidate. I have the books, I like them, but to be blunt I've not found them to be useful; the data is old, and basically a bunch of posited ideas and not backed up with very many 'I did X and it worked'. As my friend Simon likes to say, /The difference between theory and practice is greater in practice than in theory/ 'ought to' is a good starting point for experimentation, but it's not a substitute. _______________________________________________ Amc-list mailing list Amc-list@xxxxxxxxxxxx http://www.amc-list.com/mailman/listinfo/amc-list