[s-cars] RE: [200q20v] intercooler

[Mike Miller]

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From: "Calvin & Diana Craig" <calvinlc at earthlink.net>
.  This also equates roughly with what I would
> expect since a usual V-8 producing about 300 HP requires about a 600 cfm
> carburetor to run correctly and not be out of carb at the upper end...kind
> of a sanity check if you will.  That's my .02 cents.
> --Calvin Craig

Back in the '70's, when I was building an occasional V-8, you could come
very close to sizing a carb by using Cu.In. X top rpm over 3456.

example:

327 x 6000 rpm /3456 = about 567 cfm needed so a Holley 600 would work fine.

mike