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Originally posted by Strange Magic:

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Yes James did a 12* profiler engine and it ran very well. Keep in mind though that SSRE and their engine builders had some influence in it also.

Throw nitro into anything and it will run pretty darn good.

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Originally posted by 358T:

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Originally posted by Strange Magic:

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Yes James did a 12* profiler engine and it ran very well. Keep in mind though that SSRE and their engine builders had some influence in it also.

Throw nitro into anything and it will run pretty darn good.

So you are implying it was ran on M5 and/or he used some percentage of nitro methane? WRONG, that would be FAKE NEWS! Nitro and M5 are not even allowed in the class he was racing it in. It was ran on VP Racing Fuels M1 ONLY and towards the end he also used a small shot of Nitrous via a NX Express system enriched with more of the plain ol' M1. Both worked and ran well which couldn't possibly be true if a person believed everything they read on the internet.

Scott

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Both worked and ran well

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Originally posted by Dave Koehler:
That was probably said in the 60s or 70s. Perhaps even earlier. Smokey is a messiah to many of us but he was wrong.
That reads like something I would hear from a gas carb guy that had never run alky.
Firesuit is on.

FWIW I think a maximum of 14:1 on alky works the best all around.
Above that the window gets real narrow with very little gain if any other than dyno bragging rights.
I assume most realize that those dyno numbers seldom happen outside of the cell.

Honestly, with the big cubes these days most make more HP by mistake than by design.
It would seem chasing diesel compression ratios makes little sense.

Which brings up a what if question.
Would someone "soften" the chambers versus a smaller dome and create a better alky happy scenario??