you probalby don't want to know....

I don't know yet, I just called and had him overnight me 2. At one point he had said like $550 each. I thought that sounded a little high but my engine builder had never done a whipple setup before and I don't like being a guinea pig.

I didn't take it that you were questioning anything, You just seemed interested in the combo. I know I have asked a million question this fall about combos and heads because of this repower. So anythig I can do to help anyone else out I'm up for.

What computer system are you running?

With the water running thru the cooler at idle isn't it suppose to make the fuel puddle in the bottom of the intake ?

I'm really supprised you said there will be carbon build up with that much fuel, because with that much HP and comb. temp this does not happen unless you idle for along time. As soon as you go to wide open throttle there will be no carbon I can garentee you. I have run as much as 11.0 at WOT and have never had carbon buildup.

I think you should check out CandS carb's, because they have supplied single carbs for blow-through apps that have made over 2000HP even with gas or methanol.

I'll go ahead and retract that statement as truly I have never taken apart an engine that had perfect AFR's everywhere else and was 11:1 and richer at WOT. I have disassembled engines that were at or near 13:1 just about everywhere including decel's(leaner yet when decel enleanment activated) and ~11.8:1 at full power and I did see "some" carbon buildup although not excessive... this was on race gas. In defense of my statement, I think we all have seen the drastic differences in residual carbon left by "pump gas" engines at the same AFR of "race gas" engines. Just about anything richer than stoichiometric with pump gas will leave much higher residual carbon and other deposits and will contaminate the oil sooner. I yeild to your statement and I would think you would agree that it would be better to control the heat at ~12:1 AFR than it would to band-aid control the heat by richening the mixture.

I'm sure you know, but for the rest of the folks here, Draw through and blow through carb's are completely different animals. It is very easy to oversize a blow through card as it takes much less butterfly/venturi for blow through than it does for draw through to get decent booster response.

I'm running Carbs and MSD, so no computers.
I have heard the fuel pooling thing but I spoke with KE and he said he plumbed all of his motors this way. Also this is the way my last blowermotors were and the way they are run on the dyno, So I hope it will be ok.

I wouldn't want water running through the cooler at idle. My cooler runs off the LWP on the drive, so the faster you go the more water to the cooler. My first blower engine with a cooler was feed via pump, it caused surges at idle. But now that's not an issue with my new engine.

This also makes it easier to supply the engine with enough water.