the bird wants more speed!

[birdistheword]

Well after the birdistheword, went low 10,s and low 9,s (with my bottle friend) ive been thinking that i want to do something diffrient with my b-block motor, like going with a blower, but to be honest i dont know crap about blowers, but i do know that i want to KICK some chivys a$$, next year, so any input or advice will be well taken. birdistheword!

[PRO]

Personally I dont like blowers(6-71 etc) for the street,the reason being to make big power you must run the blower faster than the crank(22% overdrive seems to be adequate)but you cant on the street because it creates tons-o-heat,and requires very strong(heavy) pistons so you must be happy around 1:1 or slightly less,usually your looking at a 100-140hp gain but you lose some low end because your driving that thing slower than it wants.Case and point ,we took a 70 hemicuda to the nats this year,it runs 12.90s at 4600ft on street tires,bone stock except for headers,well we were on our way there from the motel and ran up on a 70 charger R/T with a blown 440,so we catch him from a roll around 50mph and pull him hard initially,maybe 2 car lengths then he seems to match us and just maybe he made up 1/2 a car length by 110mph,Id rather build an Edelbrock aluminum headed BB with 10.5:1 comp and lightweight pistons that will run just as hard w/o all the fuss............PRO.....

[djswwg]

PRO, what about a Paxton or similar unit? Or are they an exercise in futility as well? .....djs