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Maggie’s Motivational Pic Thread v2.0 - - New Rules - See Post #1

Heh, the boat.
You take a 6/71 and it appears to be about a 1:1 drive ratio on it.....then shove all that air thru 2 (looks about like) 1 1/2 inch silicone hoses ?
Yea, brilliant.
Ever see the openings on a 6/71 lower intake ?
That image should be in a dictionary right after the word "Restriction".
It's a 4/71 and those are likely powder coated stainless or aluminum tubes.
Given that is a nailhead Buick it's actually a kind of a clever way to take advantage of the tiny valve sizes.

Since not a freeloader, probably the most famous nailhead that ever was:
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They aren't the first to do it by far, been drag cars and everything else done that way. They did it to get the exhaust flowing out of the larger valves in racing.
Maybe as an homage, because they aren't going to need it in that car, or do anything but street racing with it like it is.

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More importantly, why is Elton John looking at the car?
 
Maybe as an homage, because they aren't going to need it in that car, or do anything but street racing with it like it is.

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It’s just something different these days, back in the day it was done a lot so the exhaust flow went out the larger valves. Big cam shops usually have reverse cams on file or can get them.
 
That would be a 4:71 supercharger, a 6:71 housing is as long as a nail head Buick engine.

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I honestly didn't even look that close.
The valve covers look real close to early vette style and I was kinda fixated on the idiotic tubes the blower...well, blew thru.
Looking back at it you can even see the blower drive belt idler is on wrong (unlike this pic) but something with hoses is in the way (probably not fuel pump as it's carb'd...dry sump pump, neovane water pump ???).
Whatever, it is just a lot of money to spend on a useless POS.
 
It’s just something different these days, back in the day it was done a lot so the exhaust flow went out the larger valves. Big cam shops usually have reverse cams on file or can get them.
The reverse cam profile is usually to turn a marine engine counterclockwise, so if it has dual engines it offsets the torque lean of the hull.
Again, they are thinking differently than you.
 
The reverse cam profile is usually to turn a marine engine counterclockwise, so if it has dual engines it offsets the torque lean of the hull.
Again, they are thinking differently than you.
I'm not talking about boats, you can't even follow the conversation lol.

The only mention of a boat was pointing out you were trolled. Also the counter rotating engine in a boat isn't reverse flowed it's set up to turn over opposite of a normal engine and flow normal. Counter rotating engines is more about steering, both props spinning the same direction pull the stern to the side so the boat turns really tight in one direction and really wide the other, and doesn't want to run straight. Also it can change the handling characteristics depending on if the props turn outward away from each other or inward towards each other. The boat above has a single reverse flow engine so it's not countering any torque.

You're trying, but failing.
 
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