jmarkaudio, I do not use junk carburetors by any means, and a matter of fact the same carb builder and builders have their stuff on the engines that qualify as well as win in the pro categories. Just say'n
Warp, go build something for drag backed by a glide, which is what 98 to 99 percent of the weekend drag cars have throughout the country and let us know how you make out with those big lift sticks that parallel max head flow lift cfm's. The last time I had checked, this topic was regarding a small block drag race engine with a glide. You might not know this warp, but the majority of the 1320's elapsed time is actually how fast you can run to the 330, of which you have to pull that ride from a dead stop, shift a gear at the 120ft and haul the rest of the 1200 or 540 feet if your eighth mile racing, in high gear. If you can't come off a 1400-1500 gear change, than your number you put up on the dyno will have you scratching your head as to why your one real nice peak hp figure has your junk running like it's down 60 or more hp in an application that is between 750 to 900 hp, and it will be down even more when you calculate the et and mph when the peak hp number is even higher via a larger engine. Here is another fact warp. In drag racing your on track operating time, which is based upon how fast you can accelerate, all takes place typically in less than 10 seconds, and not once has the drag race industry seen a quest to get from 0 to 660 or from 0 to 1320 in more elapsed time than the year prior. It's quite identical to cup racing
You don't have to believe anything I say, but I do know that many, many of second hand cup heads, especially sb 2.2's and others have made their way into drag racing and ARE NOT IMPRESSIVE AT ALL, and I would make the same statement if drag heads and logic was applied to cup racing.
I would think if the smaller lift made more average power then you are putting a bandaid on another problem in your engine.
You determine how well your piece is doing based upon how it fairs against others of it's kind, and when your able to out perform, on the race track the vast majority of others during an event, than you base your logic applied from that and not from some computer program, and not from a dyno exclusively.
If you took the consensus based upon what the majority preach on the internet and what is published in books, than you would have one slow and problematic piece.
