Thread: Cubic Inches = Ahead In The Game

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Originally posted by Dave Severson
Should be interesting!!!! And ya know what else???? Last sprint car car race I went to I sure didn't see many big blocks their, either!!!! small cubes, light cars...big cubes, heavy cars. It's all a matter of it requiring X Ft. Lbs. of torque to accelerate X Lbs of weight......

yes and i do not see any small block hulling a 49+ foot boat hull down the river at 75 + mph do you ??

Originally posted by pat mccarthy
yes and i do not see any small block hulling a 49+ foot boat hull down the river at 75 + mph do you ??

It's been done on the boat drag circuit.

Yes I do, Pat. We must be looking on different rivers..... And there ya are again, the only reason you need a big inch motor is because you have 49 ft. of boat!!!! Skinny block motors in a 24 foot boat are very fast, also.

see small blocks can work just as good

Well, Sir Issac said it best. Newton's second law of motion::

The relationship between an object's mass m, its acceleration a, and the applied force F is F = ma. Acceleration and force are vectors (as indicated by their symbols being displayed in slant bold font); in this law the direction of the force vector is the same as the direction of the acceleration vector.

This is the most powerful of Newton's three Laws, because it allows quantitative calculations of dynamics: how do velocities change when forces are applied. Notice the fundamental difference between Newton's 2nd Law and the dynamics of Aristotle: according to Newton, a force causes only a change in velocity (an acceleration); it does not maintain the velocity as Aristotle held.

This is sometimes summarized by saying that under Newton, F = ma, but under Aristotle F = mv, where v is the velocity. Thus, according to Aristotle there is only a velocity if there is a force, but according to Newton an object with a certain velocity maintains that velocity unless a force acts on it to cause an acceleration (that is, a change in the velocity). As we have noted earlier in conjunction with the discussion of Galileo, Aristotle's view seems to be more in accord with common sense, but that is because of a failure to appreciate the role played by frictional forces. Once account is taken of all forces acting in a given situation it is the dynamics of Galileo and Newton, not of Aristotle, that are found to be in accord with the observations.

Originally posted by erik erikson
Yes,but that was then this is now the year 2006 not 1966

yeah? and it'll still work in 2066

Fellows, I'm not try to piss in anyone's Cherrios, but once upon a time a wise man told me that any fool can make horsepower out of a big block and the real challenge is to make horsepower from a small block. And no I'm not the wise man and I don't profess to being an engine guru.

Originally posted by NTFDAY
Would I lie to a fellow as humble as Scooter?
Hell, Iv'e probably logged more time at Lion's, Irwindale, and OCIR than some of the people on this forum have been alive.

Anyone that has bracket raced on a serious level can say this.Including me.

bracket raced??? Heck, when bracket racing, crossover delay boxes, and breakouts started in drag racing is about the time I lost interest!!!!!

Originally posted by gassersrule_196
yeah? and it'll still work in 2066

Maybe in a no-electronics class.

If I wanna race with electronics, I'll just stay home and play video games!!!!!!

Originally posted by erik erikson
Anyone that has bracket raced on a serious level can say this.Including me.

I can't disagree with you, but IMHO drag racing lost a lot when they left "run what you brung'.

Originally posted by NTFDAY
I can't disagree with you, but IMHO drag racing lost a lot when they left "run what you brung'.

For me both the delay boxes and n2o hit about the same time.I think it was the summer of 1986.

Our local track is now an IHRA track, not sure yet if that is good or bad. They race on Sundays. The only good thing is that they still have heads up match racing on Saturday night!!! Usually draws a bigger crowd then Sunday afternoon eliminations.

[QUOTE]Originally posted by Dave Severson
Yes I do, Pat. We must be looking on different rivers..... And there ya are again, the only reason you need a big inch motor is because you have 49 ft. of boat!!!! Skinny block motors in a 24 foot boat are very fast, also. big block will all ways have a place if you like it or not. and on the small blocks i do not see that many small block in big boat or a small block in a 4000 pound cars that can get out of it way and i live in bay city it all river a round here BUT hay you know what i do not care. i have had big blocks for over 25 years and can kick many small blocks and so what if there one or two fast one out there? this is what i want. andI do and build. and sell. so this is what i will do to they stick me in a boxs and have you gone 75 in a boat 19 foot sea-ray with a stock big block and no did not see any small block a round