dragazine CEO james lawrence wanted to build a world-class supercharged Tiffany
he called Eric Dillard the owner of proline racing an all ground Georgia
this Hemi that sent his car is is our best cylinder head our best you know our
best everything that we have today is what James utilized in this build
we're gonna start with a 136 blower step it up to the 143 hopefully and testing
this week and just see where it takes us um I think I think we're gonna have a
competitive combination but we'll know a lot more about it in the next week this
week the team is on the dyno it's been more than a year since they began the
project
well anytime we dyno something new or a new combination will start kind of slow
do some light pulls keep the RPMs low if for some reason there's something wrong
it makes a lot easier to take care of things early you'll test things early
more stuff can go wrong as the RPM go up and the power goes up so for an engine
like this will warm the engine up for five or ten minutes put some heat in it
will let it heat soak for about a half an hour and then when we start to make
pools we'll go light maybe 6,500 rpms even though the engine is capable of a
lot more we'll do a light pole to make sure the map looks good plugs look good
nothing leaks nothing's out of place and just gives us an opportunity to make
sure everything's good before you run the RPMs up and run the power up
he'll check we met those guys back in 2011 or 12 the relationship between our
two companies is very strong you know we're we're out here Dino and today and
you know Anderson and all the tech guys from field tech are here and helping us
on the dyno and it's it's become an extremely strong relationship and we
just want to see it grow and be able to offer that to all the other companies
out there that want to work with field tech because it's it's a combination
that managed is hard to beat my name is Anderson deke I'm from Pheo Tech I'm
here to talk about this very nice project v8 over 3,000 horsepower alcohol
engineer with all fuel tech products the FT 600 is a good fit for pretty much
every drag racing application and this particular case the supercharger alcohol
engine it takes a lot of fuel and it pretty much they were using a lot of
those 16 injectors and the tuning wise is very important to have all the very
advanced capabilities like individual cylinder trim for the 16 injectors we
can control both primary and secondary differently in table in different tables
so it it makes much more capable of controlling those that the feel over the
engineer pretty much what you are doing right now here in the dyno is figuring
the factor 20 wise what these engineer likes and how to pretty much perfect the
tuning of the engineer and that's where the controls of the few tech it's very
helpful we've been working for a long time on this racing application and
pretty much is making a lot of difference in terms of delivering
results and safety for for the engineer
we do a bunch of different things inside one building it's kind of it's kind of
brokenness apart from a lot of the other engine builders in the industry we've
we've really worked on catering towards the tuning side and we have a lot of
guys that tune for us and are very loyal to us as a company and we're very back
we're very low well to them we've we've got our engine
building business which is what everybody knows us for we sell a lot of
parts but not only did we sell parts we do like turn key packages so we don't
really we try to sell competitively with you know with all the parts for the guys
in the heads up market but we're really going after the guys that want to come
to us and get that complete package to go out and run at the front of these
heads up classes so Pro Mod radio versus the world we're working on some ldr
stuff now with with this new pro charger front you know that's that's really
where that's really where we were we succeed hey guys Chris Jones shop
manager here at proline racing gonna go over our Hemi 3,000 horsepower
supercharged deal some of the components that we use in this thing key features
of it here we utilize a 10 to 25 DeKnight hemi block form allen johnson
performance it's based on the old t FX design this is a billet iteration of
that block most of the blocks used to be a forging on the 3,000 horsepower bill
that we're discussing today we use ap eighth iteration port program from AJ
it's a two 490 intake valve 2o 20 exhaust valve which is a bit unusual for
an outlaw style cylinder head most of them typically will run a larger intake
valve a little bit smaller exhaust we use a Bryant billet crankshaft this is a
larger wing design up here on the crank throats it's a little bit it's a little
bit heavier duty right here where the throw meets the main to add some
strength the other thing that we utilize on all of our engines is 1/8
counterweight design these tend to flex a lot less under duress and high power
we use cleave like bearings vanderwal style bearings and almost all of our
engines 480 ones and Hemis especially our rods are actually pretty heavy-duty
this is our normal Miller rod we use Bill Miller rods it's almost exclusively
and this piston is utilized in different compression ratios so different dome
heights and basically all of our Hemi engines so it's got a lot of
reinforcements towards the bottom of the pin boss this is a forging of course you
actually see where the machining is done and where the rough areas are for the
forging itself we use currently a trend tp1 material pin it's an inch show 94 in
diameter which is slightly smaller than what you're gonna see in a fuel car we
use total seal rings again in all of our engines it's a dykes configuration in
the top ring so it's a pressure backed ring PDR a pro xstream kind of dictated
that we needed to take as much weight out of our cars as possible and in order
to do so we ditch the dry sump working with Moroso several years to get a pan
design that works really well on the wet sump design now and you know our latest
iteration of these pans is great holds great oil pressure all the way down the
track we utilize an RCD gear drive on all of our engines gear drives are just
the most reliable way to time your camshaft you don't want to have to worry
about belts jumping around so this gear mounts to the camshaft itself the cam
itself is in this instance a competition cams tools still piece suffice to say
it's a blower profile it's fairly large and duration you know wide lobe
separation angle we also use a Jesu lifter so all of our engines utilize a
bush lifter bushing comp supplied us with springs and in conjunction with the
tool steel retainer we typically will use a titanium retainer and you know
titanium blocks kind of the normal deal but the tool steel retainer here you can
see it's very light comparatively speaking and of course extremely strong
because of the material for a of Valve's of course in this particular engine both
titanium because it runs on alcohol we don't have to worry about extremely high
eg T's with alcohol one of the other components that I don't have in hand
right now we actually have them in the engine currently trend push rods so this
particular engine utilizes a single piece push rod which actually has a tool
steel insert in the cup in this is our intake manifold or rough approximation
of it visitor actually works with us very closely on this we went over
several things when we started building our manifolds
one of the one of the big things for our intake is a plenum you know a large
plenum volume trying to get the air calmed down a little bit so on the front
of our visitor billet manifold we of course use a billet throttle body which
is provided to us by active tab this particular unit is 125 millimeter single
we use Reed rockers on basically all of our Hemi engines
it's a billet steel rocker arm design it runs on a shaft oils here with a bronze
bushing and a roller tip so the atomizer injector that Jack provides us with
which these things are absolutely wonderful these have been these have
been a godsend for us we use an ATI industry standard as far as balancers go
we've got ms ear starter here been using these on all of our Hemi engines and
this particular piece is of course Bill it again this is a Missouri billet flex
plate this particular unit is a hundred and thirty six tooth as you can see very
very heavy duty this is in a Chari as if I proved all that fun stuff we use se e
for all of our head gaskets they provide us with copper gaskets probably 98 to
99% of the hardware in this particular engine is ARP provided and we use a
narrow motive Terminator billet pump it's a 26 gallon per minute pump so it's
going to provide all the fuel that we could ever need we use an Alston gear
drive this the particular drives that we use our gear to gear we use spline drive
stuff on everything we try not to use belts we're in the infancy of our
supercharged program here in proline we've learned a lot of lessons on what
it takes to make great big power numbers and when we use the ProCharger systems
we know we've over built the engine of more powers on the on the docket and on
the horizon we're already eclipsing the 3,000 horsepower mark we know we're
gonna start seeing a 3,500 horsepower at some point in time it's just gonna be a
matter of time before we get there the ProCharger stuff I think is it's
almost like a whole new it's a whole new you know world for us the relationship
between ProCharger and proline definitely is a big plus not only to us
to be able to test and develop even better superchargers for proline to be
able to test and develop better camshaft and cylinder head combinations that work
with pro chargers but but ultimately it's the greatest for the racers out
there they're gonna be able to reap the benefits of all this newfound power
newfound efficiency and the combinations are gonna keep getting better and better
and faster and faster and really that's that's what it's going to take to move
the needle to make more horsepower to get the the ProCharger cars out there
running faster and faster every year right now we've got the f3 r136
which has been a tried-and-true supercharger for many years that's
what's on the the blown zo6 engine behind me that supercharger can
definitely support some you know like I said 3,000 horsepower range depends on
the engine combo as far as a boost number that's a common question people
ask how much boost will it make of course it depends on the engine it's
feeding into but even on a big Pro line you don't Hemi like this engine where
the heads flow you know over 500 CFM it'll still do upwards into the 40
pounds of boost range we're always working on something bigger and better
back at pro charter so there definitely we will be something even even more
powerful than that coming soon you take a real car and try to make it into a
race car if it takes time to build these cars so we started with James and then
with that we created more relationships and we added a lot of combinations
throughout the year but a lot of these were full builds and getting built in
cars and now we're gonna see all that stuff debut here first quarter of 2018
three thousands a good starting point and it will actually take more than that
in the car because it'll you'll have air be enforced in the supercharger did we
can't recreate on the dyno
the Rd for the bigger powers is constantly evolving and this is this is
part of it 6,500 rpms it makes around 20 250
horsepower 7,000 makes around 2600 7,500 makes around 2,900 and picked around
3000 about 8,000 rpms well like I said we can't recreate what happens in the
racecar you have one in a racecar you typically have multiple gear changes so
the using goes up and down through the RPM range at least once if not a couple
of times we can't recreate the amount of air that goes in the supercharger so the
engine will make more boost at the track then it will hear so it's just a matter
of not being able to copy the conditions in the racecar exactly so we don't get
carried away trying to tune to the enth degree on the dyno because we know
things will change when it goes in the car the main thing is to give us a
baseline and give us a good starting point we consider our dyno to be the
race track
almost a year of the making the team ran in the threes first weekend out
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