Race building a mod. B 4 cyl.

[jimmy six]

I don't think my stock head GMC lags too far behind the 4 in spend time and $$'s to go fast. I would not want to start over after 35 years.

I believe anyone can throw dollars at an engine but it's the time and wanting to do something yourself that makes the difference. I've always been impressed by what 4 banger guys will try and build in their own shops like Roy Creel and Rich Fox. If my dad were alive I would probably be there too; I have pictures of him at Muroc with his Craeger 29 roadster........But I got hooked on 2 more cylinders

[panic]

Big personal achievement and satisfaction rating:
They're all different
It's not a Chinese menu of speed equipment made by people you'll never meet.
If you win, it's you, not Vic Edelbrock.

[Milwaukee Midget]

There's nothing that compares to making a silk purse out of a sow's ear.

"I took the road less traveled by, and that has made all the difference".  Robert Frost

[Motornoggin]

There's nothing that compares to making a silk purse out of a sow's ear.

"I took the road less traveled by, and that has made all the difference".  Robert Frost

Indeed.

I used to race RC boats. When everyone else was racing 7.5-11cc engines on Nitro, I ran 30cc Homelite engines on gasoline. I would machine cooling fins off the cylinder and replace them with a push on water jacket, remove the key on the magneto so I could advance the timing, deck the bottom end of the cylinder to increase compression, hog out the transfer ports, re-time the intake and exhaust ports, stuff the crankcase, polish the piston skirt, knife edge the rod, add a tuned pipe, etc... All inexpensive efforts done by trial and error, but I ended up making a 1hp@8000rpm engine push 4hp@14000rpm. Lots of satisfaction in learning what works and what doesn't.

[racergeo]

  I think the point of this post is to help my friend find out what WORKS and not have to spend his entire retirement finding out what doesn't.