I guess every form of "racing" has it's own winning formula. Years ago when I did dyno shoot-outs (motorcycles) it was only peak hp and surprisingly my roadrace engine was quite dominate.....even if I was must just breaking transmissions out on the actual roadrace track.PackardV8 wrote:
Which takes us back to where we came in. The EMC scoring rewards small bore, long stroke, short rods, tight LSA. Some of the top scorers have told me privately they'd not build an engine like that for street or strip, but dyno racing is its own game.
I think a program like dynomation5 is what you want. The consensus seems to be that it over predicts torque so you'll have to watch out for that but it will iterate bore/stroke and cam timing to give you the highest average over the range you specify which sounds like your competition. On the engines I've done with it which only amount to about a dozen it's been very close on peak hp, but a bit high but I tend to size my ports relatively small yielding a pretty wide torque curve anyway, at least with the cams I pick. And unlike fpumping programs like desktop dyno the wave programs properly reward you for well designed and matched heads, cams intake and exhaust systems.
With cams actual measured lobe profiles produce much more accurate results than cam card numbers, but I think I read you need to use comp cams? Dynomation has there full cam profile library available so you're all set there.
