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My goodness. What an interesting topic and what a pleasure to read the various inputs on so many areas of this discussion. George particularly. What a font of wisdom & much knowledge. Thank you very much for sharing all that with us. The bit on the early NASCAR days, Ford agin chevy was a treat. One mostly hears just Chevy talk out here in the colonies and iam always 'fighting' with my mates who all mostly run chevies. ( In our small Pantera club here in Johannesburg we have one member with 4x Pantera's ALL running chevy motors in various forms and one new menber who is fitting a very liteweight quad-cam Lexus 4.2 V8 with local ECU setup, throtle bodies etc. - these motors come from Japan where they are 'retiring' cars after two years, so one can buy a Nissan or Lexus V8 with very little mileage, 2x years worth, for a bit more than $1000. A 2xyr old turbo, intercooled Mazda rotary with box cost a lot less. The kids here run these rotaries in all sorts of cars, drag race them on the weekends , turn up the boost, mayby win some money, blow the motor and buy a another one for the next drag meeting...wish it were like that when i was a kid..)
One point missed tho during all the postings that I would like to mention is: The "Power Only On Demand" theory. And this is where my bet would be on turbo'ng over supercharging. Sure turbo's run hot etc., but there is one area where it excells over everything else, along with the old N.O.S. bottle number,- is that your motor, whatever it is will only come under mechanical stress when its ON boost or ON the bottle.- Only those few seconds, minutes (how often does one nail it hard, 20% or 35% of the time???) With Supercharging or normally aspiration with high compression etc. your motor is just that exactely, :- under boost from the supercharger all the time....the turbo or nitros oxide exerts strain/stress on the motor 'on demand' only. Allowing the motor to operate in low boost, low compression mode for a LOT of the time u are driving. This is one of the reasons one can find 30 plus year old Porsche Turbo's that still run strong with a 250.000 mile, un-opened motor.- Its been unstressed most of it driving life. NOS has been around since forever....only making power when needed.....and as one of u said : 450bhp plus a soft hit of 150 from a NOS bottle will give u plenty, reliable poke.
Regards to all, tai.