How d'ya figure? What kind of blower are you using to get 213 cubic feet of air into a cylinder displacing 225 cubic inches in one revolution in one minute? Enjoyed your post, but need to rethink the math on this one! I hope the intake valve was hanging open on this theoretical revolution and the piston was not on the power downstroke...

"DW"

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OOPS. this is a Mars lander situation.....good catch, Dennis. This is what happens when I ponder aimlessly late at night.

Let me try to clarify; I meant one intake stroke. Let's call it 2 rpm so that you have one intake stroke per minute. A 225 cube single cylinder with a 95% VE will suck in 213 cubic inches on every intake stroke. On the other three strokes, the carb does nothing.

If you use the usual CFM formula, you assume that the carb is flowing continously. In this hypothetical situation, it does not. It flows as the intake pulses and the CFM requirement is larger because the air has to be ingested in less than a minute.

A multi-cylinder engine fed from an intake manifold with a plenum chamber tends to average these pulses out and the flow looks continuous. You won't see your vacuum gauge jumpng with every stroke. But as you start dividing the manifold into split configurations(153-624) or an individual runner, the time component becomes a bigger consideration.

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I grokked your logic the first go-around, mustangsix, and it seemed valid and informative, even with the erroneous calculation Glad there are other ponderers out there!

"DW"

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I'm so confused!!!

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Grab hold of something! Things will stop spinning soon........

"DW"

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I'm old enough to have read "Stranger in a Strange Land"!

Seems the issue with the cfm-thingy is, you use the cfm calculation to make sure you have ENOUGH carb that can feed the c.i.'s at the rpm's. Having a little more carb than mathematically needed probably isn't a bad thing.
Many of us seem to be tinkering with the motors anyway to make more RPM's available or otherwise increasing the Volumetric Efficiency, two factors in the equation. I went with the 8007 390 cfm Holley, but haven't had a chance to test it out, my starter died.

Choice one would be 3 1920's on a common plenum. Undecided linkage.

Choice two would be with six carbs. However, I'm thinking now that I would have seperate intake mainfolds for 1,2....3,4....5,6. Then I'd run one primary and one secondary carb on each manifold. I'm thinking that by seperating the three sets of carbs that the slant wouldn't be trying to drink from way too much carb at once. Does this one sound more doable?

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Here's how an AMC/Jeep owner increased CFMs without the big$ of Webbers.


The adapters could be made for any downdraft 1 or 2 barrel. The intake is Cliffords 3x2 webber.

Cecil

I have an old 2 barrel off my '64 Polara. I had also thought of using three 2 barrels. That's the CFM on these?

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Thanks for the pic.

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