Hey Mo Lee:
I here ya brother. It was the late 70,s to early 80,s that I got into my vee dub.
The first motor I really tore up was a 1500 single port with a slip in big bore kit. I think it made it around a 1600. With a 2 bbl holley bug spray carb and a big cam. I pulled the flywheel one day and chucked it up and cut a lot of wieght off the flywheel. I have no idea how much, I was only 16 or so and just learning so I was trying stuff. The flywheel didnt do a whole lot with the stock stroke/crank. So I found a Ray Jay turbo and built a header and put the carb in a can. I have no idea how much boost (manually adjusted waste gate). But it was not a lot anyway (small turbo).
I kept turning up the boost and was starting to get significant gains happening.... then blew a head off of it. Pulled the head studs out of the case. After this I started building stroker motors and never messed with a turbo (on a vee dub) again. The stroker cranks all are 8 pin that I have seen. This trike I have actually is my old hot rod sedan that was a wheel toter. I cammed it down and shimmed the jugs out and did some major re-gearing. It has some long legs and still sprints like a hot motorcycle. One of the rideing buddies has a v-rod (Harley crotch rocket) with pipes and a computer re-tune. He likes to gas on it hard.
He giggles every time he leaves all the other guys behind exept me staying right behind him on a trike. I can not in any way get around him but no matter how hard he gasses on it I am right behind him, He thinks it silly that a trike keeps up with him. It makes me giggle to do it too......LOL But I am getting old and a lot of this hot rod stuff is getting out of my system.
I here ya brother. It was the late 70,s to early 80,s that I got into my vee dub.
The first motor I really tore up was a 1500 single port with a slip in big bore kit. I think it made it around a 1600. With a 2 bbl holley bug spray carb and a big cam. I pulled the flywheel one day and chucked it up and cut a lot of wieght off the flywheel. I have no idea how much, I was only 16 or so and just learning so I was trying stuff. The flywheel didnt do a whole lot with the stock stroke/crank. So I found a Ray Jay turbo and built a header and put the carb in a can. I have no idea how much boost (manually adjusted waste gate). But it was not a lot anyway (small turbo).
I kept turning up the boost and was starting to get significant gains happening.... then blew a head off of it. Pulled the head studs out of the case. After this I started building stroker motors and never messed with a turbo (on a vee dub) again. The stroker cranks all are 8 pin that I have seen. This trike I have actually is my old hot rod sedan that was a wheel toter. I cammed it down and shimmed the jugs out and did some major re-gearing. It has some long legs and still sprints like a hot motorcycle. One of the rideing buddies has a v-rod (Harley crotch rocket) with pipes and a computer re-tune. He likes to gas on it hard.
He giggles every time he leaves all the other guys behind exept me staying right behind him on a trike. I can not in any way get around him but no matter how hard he gasses on it I am right behind him, He thinks it silly that a trike keeps up with him. It makes me giggle to do it too......LOL But I am getting old and a lot of this hot rod stuff is getting out of my system.