EDIT- NOTE: Ignore the screen-name; it's actually her dummy husband!
Was "away from the the Internet"(except for PRCA/NFR-related sites) for a several day period; out setting up the final contracts for our local Rodeo -and winning about $600 and losing about $700 for a total loss of $100 (more gambling than I've ever done) on slots and blackjack- while in Las Vegas this week. Interesting to see where this thread has gone....
Actually
I posted that 4-barrel Clevelands "bogged" at low RPMs; compared to 2V Clevelands. Have many references to the HP/torque curves for the two different intake patterns.
this thread has reminded me why I no longer seek tech advice here. I know this thread is in talk, but still...... It's fun to read the old wives tales though.
Of which "old wives' tales" are you speaking?
Personally, I've looked at a lot of "well, my 351C was a dog" and "well my BOSS 351 outran a BOSS 429" stories -that last was in the aforementioned Mustang rag (which one I still don't remember, but I'm betting it was either "Mustang Monthly" or Mustang Illustrated") from October or November of 1983. I actually have a picture of it on a coffee table (that wasn't the subject of the picture, but it happened to be laying there); but it's too blurry to read the bottom of the page.
Everything I've read - mag articles, technical "build-it" books, and yes, a lot of posts from many different forums in "this new Internet world" - indicates that the torque peak of the "typical" 4V Cleveland came in later than that of its 2V bretheren. I'm not interested in screaming 1/4-miler cars; I want to drive something that gets around town and has very good performance numbers (both on the strip
and on the street; a compromise, I'm sure!). For that, the 4V Cleveland appears to fall short of a 2V Cleveland.
My own experience with the engine has been that a
very mildy "warmed-up" 2V Cleve
in a heavy old four-door grocery-getter sedan can embarrass the h*** out of quite a few of the typical "period" pony-car and muscle car owners. One could argue that the driver of the 2v-powered sedan was some kind of extraordinary driving genius; but one would be very stupid to try to point that out to me! Because, again, I'm speaking from
personal experience because I owned/drove that 2V Cleveland - powered 4-door sedan when it was beating up on Chevy (and some Ford and exactly two Mopar) "hot-rods". Lemme tell you - I am
not some genius driver!
If a mildly-warmed 2V Cleve (backed by an
almost unanimously derided FMX slushbox)
in a 4-door sedan can make
me look good leaving a stoplight; then it
absolutely must be doing
something right!
EDIT: Oops!!!! I'm using my wife's machine, and forgot that it would "log in" under
her screen name!