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Carburetor Video
While dynoing a 555 I decided to play with my GoPro and took a video down into the carb on a pull. Kinda cool. What I find a bit surprising is that it appears to be pulling fuel from the secondary accelerator pump nozzle at higher rpm. You can't see the primary side because of the choke plate. This seems odd to me. I've searched for other videos and found a couple that seem to show the same thing
.www.youtube.com/watch?v=ceBRps8kqCI Bob |
I guess I should add the engine is 9.5:1 compression, 555 ci, Canfield heads, 246/256 .640ish cam on 114 LSA and Gil exhaust. It made 650 HP at 5900 RPM. I didn't build it, just tuned it. Seems to be pretty good power, so the heads must be working well. Full marine trim and wet exhaust on the run. Also, the builder installed the cam at 110 deg. centerline and it made 630 HP, I retarded it to 113 and picked up 20 hp, moving peak tq and hp up about 200 rpm
Bob |
not surprising that it pulls fuel out the squirters, that system is set to only flow one way and with enough air flow past it I can see it pulling it in. the real question then is if that happens how much does the squirter size effect air fuel ratios? maybe not much but who knows. would like to see both the front and rear squirters blocked off and then make a pull to see the change. would have to bring it up slow with out them but probably doable.
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Good stuff Bobl.
I cannot remember where I read about this.Itmay have been speedtalk.com or https://www.tapatalk.com/groups/raci...ms/holley-f25/ Couple of really sharp carb guys on both.One named Tuner and other jmarkaudio |
That is neat bob. You ever see the video Mild Thunder posted with the clear float bowls on the dyno. That's another interesting one. Amazing the things we don't see.
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bob,i also noticed that on a dyno video taken at the place i used to do my dynoing at,i think it happens whenever a carb goes wot so i would say it is part of the fuel being use.if one never viewed the video you would never know.
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And seems so many concern with fuel atomization. Shoot you can barely see the fuel at wot. Imagine by the time it hits the int valve. Any mini cams installed in intake port close to head. SB will find one. Lol... I gotta go shovel snow.
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Originally Posted by bobl
(Post 4592762)
I guess I should add the engine is 9.5:1 compression, 555 ci, Canfield heads, 246/256 .640ish cam on 114 LSA and Gil exhaust. It made 650 HP at 5900 RPM. I didn't build it, just tuned it. Seems to be pretty good power, so the heads must be working well. Full marine trim and wet exhaust on the run. Also, the builder installed the cam at 110 deg. centerline and it made 630 HP, I retarded it to 113 and picked up 20 hp, moving peak tq and hp up about 200 rpm
Bob |
really cool....something you would never see without the camera...interesting for sure
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