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Difference between blown through and drawn through turbo set up. Drawn through works great, but can become a bomb in the event of a backfire. Fuel is sucked into the compressor side of the turbo.
Say no more.
Right!Say no more.
Ouch! Yours?First run with sticky Mickeys.
Dana 30 problems. This was the second time out on a fresh build. The fender was a casualty of recovery.
Natural gas compressor? I don’t mean on the engine intake, I mean the driven equipment.
The XJ still have the 4.0L? I think grippy tires are great with stockish power in most applications. Perhaps there's been a power upgrade? Lotsa grip+lotsa power+stockish driveline seems to shatter faster than anything, depending on the driving style, of course. I've got a hammer-down approach with 95hp and stock axles and good grip. Don't break much. Going to do an engine swap that will double power and torque. Hoping my right foot will cooperate with the changeU-Joint sitting on the ground, no less.
Eric what did he do?
I have several wheeling trips and ~20,000 miles road miles on my XJ with polished D30/C8.25.
Only repairs I had to do were Spicer 760 wheel u-joints, mostly as a wear item. XJ weigh in at 4,000lbs, rolling on 35x12.5R15 Cooper radial mud tires and just upped to IROK Bias 36x13.5R15 (actual size is bigger than most 37" tires!) and still haven't break anything!
Granted, I think large grippy tires are easier on drivetrain rolling right along, rather than hammering down to do the same line with shitty smaller mud tires.
Electric power generation. This is on a 1.25Mw engine. Makes big boom when shit goes sideways
Excuse me if I missed it, did you say what engine? Work has 100’s of T/A nat gas compressors using draw through carburetion. The only engines we know are known for doing exactly that are the ULB Caterpillars. Ultra Lean Burn for anyone fixing to ask what ULB meansThe XJ still have the 4.0L? I think grippy tires are great with stockish power in most applications. Perhaps there's been a power upgrade? Lotsa grip+lotsa power+stockish driveline seems to shatter faster than anything, depending on the driving style, of course. I've got a hammer-down approach with 95hp and stock axles and good grip. Don't break much. Going to do an engine swap that will double power and torque. Hoping my right foot will cooperate with the change
Electric power generation. This is on a 1.25Mw engine. Makes big boom when shit goes sideways
I did not say what engine. I work at an independent laboratory that tests powertrain components. This was a development engine. Can't say anymore than that (confidentiality, lawyers, job loss, hope you understand), but the industry producing engines that make that kind of power is a small one, so you can probably narrow it down. I would say that this manufacturer isn't making any NG compressor engine platforms that I'm aware of, but do believe they would like to get into the market someday.
Yoke snapped then the shrapnel bound up and pressed the ball joints out. Seen it happen many times.
Friends. Being the good friend that I am when we were bolting the tires on I commented about how small the axle looked in comparison.
That’s cool
and no worries, totally understand.
Yes. AX-15/231 with 4.56 gears (I should had it geared deeper…)
Then report to the 9” threadYou didn't learn from the 100s of people before you running more than 35s or 80hp on a D44 and doing hard shit =
At least you can do jk or d50 gears, but then what?
I mean they measure to 35".... only 12.5" wide on 4.10's, figured I was kind of safe. At this point I should have built a 60 but I don't want to run 40+ tires to achieve same ground clearance. I like being narrow/lighter for the woods-type wheeling we have here in MI.You didn't learn from the 100s of people before you running more than 35s or 80hp on a D44 and doing hard shit =
At least you can do jk or d50 gears, but then what?
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What crank journal diameter does he run? I might be interested in the other seven rods.Guy I work with runs a nitro funny car. They were racing in Ennis a couple weekends ago and the engine "sneezed" when they went to fire it up. Apparently one of the injectors was dripping into the cylinder and as the piston moved up in the bore it hydro locked that cylinder and then fired off causing this......
It split the rod straight down the middle!!!!
No idea on the journal diameter. Nitro guys don't throw anything away until it's used up. The other 7 rods are fine until they stretch and get tossed in the recycling bin.What crank journal diameter does he run? I might be interested in the other seven rods.
No idea on the journal diameter. Nitro guys don't throw anything away until it's used up. The other 7 rods are fine until they stretch and get tossed in the recycling bin.
Can you believe the block and crank are fine? They are only replacing a sleeve, piston and rod in that engine.
I never even knew that was a thing.
Motor makes somewhere in the neighborhood of 12,000hp running 98% nitro. Needless to say they don't run with the NHRA.That's crazy.
Even at startup, that one cylinder probably put out 1000hp when it lit off.
