"Appropriate" What kind of word is that to use at an engine? That's the kind of word to use when your 4yo blurts out his first curse word!
I want my engines to be inappropriate, definitely NOT "normal"! Even my Toyota truck has a supercharger with its resultant whine. In the picture below is 1 car with heads that have huge port volume, huge valves and a seriously inappropriate carb. On the other side of the garage is a car with more cubes and very sane inline valve heads.....you know, very sensible valve, port and carb sizes. It only took one run before my then room-mate would never do it again! Was it easy to crawl around the mall parking lot with that small cube Boss? NO! But then again, is that what most people driving Cobras looking for? I’m sure the waxxers want a nice smooth idle so that they can cruise around the parking lot on cruise night without having to fight the clutch and their bucking beast, because that’s what they are into. And for them the sedate heads may be the cat’s ass. But then that’s not my judgment to make. For me, and most likely quite a few others, I want no part of sedate, appropriate, normal or any of those other words. I want the rip snorting rampaging beast that the Cobra can be. John’s Yates headed screamer has to be a gas and I’m sure Brett’s big cube small block is cool as well. As for me, I’m hoping that my big block BDR will give me chill down my spine whenever I romp on it.
Steve