B2 Motorsports - Gary Bowman 445 SBF Build

[ERA Chas]

Please post all the hard build specs here after it's published.

[GBowman]

Did we order wings Jay??? Make sure we 3M the leading edges...Im totally stoked, cant wait for this to come together. I've watched the dyno video Brent sent me 100 times I think...speakers on 11. Now I am looking forward to Jay and the team at Vintage to work some magic, time can't possibly move any slower. I've watched numerous builds by both Blykins and Vintage and I couldn't be in better hands-this isn't a typical set up (cookie cutter) and there will be some challenges but I have no doubt that, once its done, it will be one fun ride...I ordered a box of adult Depends today

[blykins]

I'll give everyone an update.

I asked Gary for an extension for some more tuning time.

Last Friday was dyno day, of course, but after a morning of distributor problems, we really didn't get to hit on it until after lunch. We ran out of tuning time, plus my regular carb guy was in Tennessee working for a truck pulling team.

We're going to try another carb, a Quickfuel instead of the Holley Ultra Pro. I have a feeling we can pull some more ponies out of the combination. I'm scheduled to put it back on the pump the weekend of the 19th. If we pull some more horsepower out, that would be great. If not, then we can chalk it up to R&D.

[fordracing65]

Originally Posted by blykins

I'll give everyone an update.

I asked Gary for an extension for some more tuning time.

Last Friday was dyno day, of course, but after a morning of distributor problems, we really didn't get to hit on it until after lunch. We ran out of tuning time, plus my regular carb guy was in Tennessee working for a truck pulling team.

We're going to try another carb, a Quickfuel instead of the Holley Ultra Pro. I have a feeling we can pull some more ponies out of the combination. I'm scheduled to put it back on the pump the weekend of the 19th. If we pull some more horsepower out, that would be great. If not, then we can chalk it up to R&D.

I like the carb switch idea, Quickfuel is a better carb...

[blykins]

This carb was gone through by my carb guy, so it's not exactly a turd. However, it was too big for the engine and after fighting A/F ratios for quite a bit, we thought that the carb just wasn't getting enough signal.

I have several 480-500 inch motors coming through the pipe, so I'll offer it to one of those customers at a discount.

[fordracing65]

What size was it and what are you going to use spec wise now...