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Help with interpreting Carburetor - related data

Started by XH29N0G, August 08, 2020, 05:28:09 PM

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XH29N0G

Hi Everyone,

As some of you may know, I made a crude engine data logger to see if I could optimize my car.  
I started converting the acceleration into power and then realized I could simply use the rise in RPM as a function of time.  More RPM rise in less time is where I want to be.  I have been running in 3rd gear because 2nd goes to fast and 4th goes to fast.  I know there are differences in the way the RPM rises with the gears and also how the parameters I measure vary.  The process is working because I see consistent gains test to test and they have all gone in the same direction so far.  They have also shaved some time off of the 3rd gear run.

What I have found so far is I keep making the jets larger and the acceleration (rise in RPM relative to time gets better). I am waiting for this to drop off and then move back a step.  The next step has me at 5 jet sizes higher than the way the carb was OOB.  (I have changed air bleeds etc.... to flatten the response and have changed accelerator pump cams and squirters to optimize the tip in.  

I am presently running a QFT Q850 AN (annular boosters) and really like how the tip in works.   The question is whether the other data is showing this is the optimal carburetor.  The carburetor does not have a choke horn and has 1.39 inch venturis.  When I got it, the car was set up with an SS-830 (downleg 1.56 inch venturi back and 1.45 front - but with a choke horn).  I have tried a 1.59 annular body (1050) but that seemed sluggish - do not have the same type of data though (yet).  I am curious about the 950-An body which has 1.45 venturis but I wonder if the data I have would tell me that it was not worth it (or that it was worth it).  The data is below.  It shows about 1.3 inches of vacuum at 5500-6000 rpm.  This looks in the range of what other people have said they see but looks like more vacuum than was seen when the engine was tested with the 830 (that was 0.5 inches).  

I know this might not be something that people have thoughts on OR that it may be better for me to work through it, but I thought I would ask in case and will appreciate any thoughts.

Here is the data.  I am running 81 jets front and 89 jets back with a red and a blue cam and #40 squirters.  It is a 452 ci 4.28 bore.  I may make other changes this winter (wrestling with the possibility of installing a solid xs282s cam, and wondering about the heads - it is oob, but cleaned up edlebrock heads).  I am running mid 13's.  If could shift right as it is, I think I should be high 12's  (I had one low 13).
Who in their right mind would say

"The science should not stand in the way of this."? 

Science is just observation and hypothesis.  Policy stands in the way.........

Or maybe it protects us. 

I suppose it depends on the specific case.....