I took the 59ht for a ride with the new r-2 engine. Started nice and easy got it up to temp,and decided to see what she had. with 3.08 gears it is not much out of the hole, brought it up to 3500 shifted (@3500 I still had 5 inches of vacum)pushed harder in secound to 4000 had about 0 inches of vac nailed third kicked the secoundries brought it up to 4200 noticed about 2 lbs ,hit fourth and ran out of safe road. Called john erb before I did this (he said I should have about 1 lb at about 2000,3-4 at 3000-3500 and about 6-8 lbs at 4000-4200). I am running a 5 1/8" supercharger pulley and the belt isn't slipping. tried running a search for porfance of a r-2 and can't find any rules of thumb.would apreciated any insight on this subject.
Thanks,
JOE
1959 HARDTOP R2 clone
1960 conv
SDC member since 1972
Thanks,
JOE
1959 HARDTOP R2 clone
1960 conv
SDC member since 1972
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