Re: Hot Rod Options
Posted by Ozstatman On 2010/2/26 18:54:33
Quote:G'day hiboy24,
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Anything is possible, all you need is money and for that sort of exercise plenty of it!
The Packard straight 8's have been supercharged but always with a thought to the limitations of the engine, namely the long stroke.
What Peter Packard says makes sense with more horsepower being freed up through higher compression and better breathing. I read somewhere once that a 20hp increase was easily obtained just with some port matching and smoothing of the passages, this was used by 30's gangsters in their Packards!
And of course I have to ask - Is this Packard engine on steroids destined to power a Packard or something else? If it is powering a Packard could you please include your Packard in the Packard Owner's Registry here, together with a pic, any known history and how you acquired it? And the more detail the better!
hiboy24 wrote:......Is it possible to get a stronger crankshaft made for these engines?
to PackardInfo. Anything is possible, all you need is money and for that sort of exercise plenty of it!
The Packard straight 8's have been supercharged but always with a thought to the limitations of the engine, namely the long stroke.
What Peter Packard says makes sense with more horsepower being freed up through higher compression and better breathing. I read somewhere once that a 20hp increase was easily obtained just with some port matching and smoothing of the passages, this was used by 30's gangsters in their Packards!
And of course I have to ask - Is this Packard engine on steroids destined to power a Packard or something else? If it is powering a Packard could you please include your Packard in the Packard Owner's Registry here, together with a pic, any known history and how you acquired it? And the more detail the better!
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