You can get into the 20 hp range with any 6.5hp ohv engine but it is not cheap to get there ... mdb won Brad hills motor builder challenge last year with 28.9 hp Barry young took second at 28.7 and there is a motor that did an undocumented 28.8 that I am in possession of ... another member here bdomit01 put up very respectable numbers as well
Yeah watched the pod cast .... and I would say at .1 oh a hp difference it was a tie .. my point was you can get a ton of hp out of one of these ... my hemi which is only a hemi block should be around 25 and a good reliable motor ... all depends on what you want to spend and what you want to use it for
Usable engine I think is often lost or usable power for that fact. Everybody seems to want the biggest and most HP numbers but when you are out riding in the yard more often than not a more torquey engine is way more fun. Tons of people can't understand they don't want an engine you have to throttle to it's about to blow up just to ride around the yard on. Then again an engine can be built to make so much power it will eat itself up the first 30 minutes of it's life. Might be great in a HP build off but not so much for something you want to have fun on.
I can give credit where it's due and Mr Jankine might have been the first to incorporate that trick in a small engine like these but those tricks have been around for a long time. I can remember dad teaching me the stuff on small block chevy drag engines back in the mid to late 80s. I'm surprised it has taken that long to bleed over to engine building competitions for these. Maybe it's just taken that long for somebody to finally let their "secrets" out
I can give credit where it's due and Mr Jankine might have been the first to incorporate that trick in a small engine like these but those tricks have been around for a long time. I can remember dad teaching me the stuff on small block chevy drag engines back in the mid to late 80s. I'm surprised it has taken that long to bleed over to engine building competitions for these. Maybe it's just taken that long for somebody to finally let their "secrets" out
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