turbo 350 or glide
building gasser...stock 454... 9" posi ford with 3:50 gears(street, to and from track)....29"tall mt street/strip radials 10.5 w..car wgt 2600#s..no trans brake.......will run 1/8 and 1/4....turbo or glide?
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Glide....reason i say this is that it takes much less Hp to turn the Glide..cannot locate but i read somewhere it takes like 30 plus hp to spin a Turbo vs. 5 or 6 hp to spin a Glide.
now donlt qoute me on these numbers but i am sure its a Big difference. Brian |
I've seen power usage charts but am not able to find one as yet to post on here.
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Glide or 350
Here is a site that has some info:
http://www.stockcarracing.com/techar...owerglide.html |
powerglide
but I'd go steeper on the rear gear because of it. |
sry to butt in but im interested as well becuase iam building a street/strip and was goign to put a 400 in my car but was thinking about a glide.. how is a glide on the street? how streetable is it??
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Originally Posted by gyellow
sry to butt in but im interested as well becuase iam building a street/strip and was goign to put a 400 in my car but was thinking about a glide.. how is a glide on the street? how streetable is it??
If it is mainly a street car and once in awhile you take it to the track I'd run a three speed...if it is primarily a race car then glide hands down. JMO I never had a glide on the street. |
Originally Posted by gyellow
sry to butt in but im interested as well becuase iam building a street/strip and was goign to put a 400 in my car but was thinking about a glide.. how is a glide on the street? how streetable is it??
many cars from the past ran Glides on the street. Bottom line a glide is gonna free up valuable engine HP |
awesome well it looks like a found my tranny of choice haha... what can a stock glide handle for power?
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stock 176 planateries can handle 800hp on the strip no problems
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