The mission of the National Corvette Museum is to celebrate the Corvette's invention, and preserve the legendary automobile's past, present, and futu...
Subject: Re: TPI vs. LT1 or miniram dyno curve? by BeachBum on 2009/1/13 0:21:34
Quote:
CentralCoaster wrote: Quote:
BeachBum wrote:
In my opinion, on slicks with equal launches, the difference in et would be greater.
How so? It's clear to me the LT1 had a worse launch, yet still caught back up a little afterwards. I don't think the LT1 intake will ever be the limiting factor on the 60' of a stock vehicle, or even with drag radials.
My opinion is based upon my own personal experience between the Miniram and Superram. I ran them back to back on a A-B-A test...... the SR had a harder 60 ft by a tenth.... the MR could never recover from that, in fact it got worse.
However, a Miniram is not an LT-1 intake, but they do provide fairly similar torque curves when looking at apple to apple comparisons.... with that said, in my opinion, both on slicks, the difference between the two would have been greater, I think the SR has the ability to 60 ft MUCH harder than an LT-1 with the same street set-up. The LT-1 is a limiting factor.... it simply does not generate the mid to low rpm torque that the SR does, which prevents it from accelerating with the Superram.
However, roughen up the LT-1 with a loose converter and the right cam/gear combination and it'll fly passed the SR at all increments.
