Old school supercharging on a 3x8

Polished and port matched matched intake manifold with optimum individual runner length?
NAH! - who needs it! Just crank up that there boost, Junior!

 

are you feeling alone Russ? JK

the boost club is growing! hey i love NA, but for the cost of NA 'upgrades' i can boost the motor for more HP.

ofcourse you don't have to woory about 'POP! goes the weasel'!!!

 

Cool. I worked on one of Bill Pound's normally aspirated 308 racing engines and talked to him several times by phone during the project. About the only "Ferrari" parts on that engine were the block assembly, the heads and the cam covers. The rest was all High tech custom. You can bet that engine in the picture was seriously breathed on too.

Someone had removed Bill's light-weight cam-followers with pill type lash-caps underneath for OEM parts and the engine spit out one of the Fiat wafer shims at Watkins Glenn at 10 grand or so with disasterous results. We patched the engine back together with similar cam-followers to what Bill had put in there originally only we sourced them from Bob Norwood since Bill had already retired. He was very helpfull with information though.

 

Comparing carbs to turbo/super chargers is like comparing a light saber (Webers) to a blaster (boost):

Obi-wan Kenobi: "This is the weapon of a Jedi Knight. Not as clumsy or as random as a blaster, but an elegant weapon for a more civilized age"

 

HAHAHA

i know! i joined the darkside just for the deathstar!

 

Scott is the expert here.

You should see what he did to his Mondial, and it's a screamer!

 

I must confess I, too, had had a supercharged engine on my all time favorite vehicle for 9 years - a Pratt & Whitney R-1340 that could boosted to 36" of Mercury at 2250 rpm with 1340 cubic inches producing 600 hp. Can you say torque?

 

now , now. you go talking that kind of talk and i will want to mount my Browning 1919 belt fed on the back of the 308.

 

I think this car was in that movie, Back to the Future...