by larrycavan » Fri Feb 22, 2008 10:37 pm
I received and watched the video today. Claimed head flow at 28" is 225 - 240 CFM. If Ve is raised to represent the actual head flow, Ve jumps to 129.3 for the smaller, record setting engine.
That should help out a bunch for number crunching. That's very typical to what we seem to run into when having no dyno data and only head raw flow data to work with. Make the Ve number high enough to show that all the actual flow is being utilized and Ve get's out of the realm of reality for most of our engines.
It seems the engine actually used 79% of available CFM. I shudder to think what a monstor this thing would be if it used all available CFM after watching the video.
With 380 lbs of dynamic compression pressure, George could not give the engine full throttle below 8000RPM on the dyno or the cylinder pressure would blow the rods right through the block.... :p
I used the 79% of available flow on another engine I did that typically should produce about 50 HP at the crank. Previous Ve was at 135% when I adjusted Ve to get raw CFM numbers correct. HP was showing 66.6 [BEST]. New numbers with 79% of actual flow used as a correction mechanism....HP fell right in place at 50HP [BEST].
Might just be something useful in that 79% calculation for 4V motors to model better in PipeMax...
Edited By larrycavan on 1203734847