LIGHTNING PERFORMANCE MARINE - PHONE 951-678-5631 - FAX 951-678-5633 Welcome to Lightning Performance Marine This website is best viewed with the Flash Player Plugin. Click here to Get Flash! Or scroll down the page to enter our website. home contact sitemap Home Photos Products Services Sitemap Contact Us Main Menu HOME TECH INFORMATION DYNO TEST ENGINES SERVICES PRODUCTS Sitemap Contact Company Bio Current News OUR NEW WEB SITE It's been over ten years since we launched our first web site. It was pretty much a information only site. This site is the same but with a lot more information about how to build Horsepower for your marine application. ... GET 712 HP FROM YOUR OLD 330 HP CHEVY WITH ONE CARBURETOR, LIGHTNING 2" HEADERS, AND ON PUMP GAS Yes it's true, we took a stock 330 HP Jet boat engine, bored it to 467 cubic inches (.060 over), beefed up the bottom end with 4-bolt mains, forged crank, good rods. Increased the compression ratio to 10.5 to 1. Added a set of AFR heads, roller cam, single plane manifold with a 1250 Carburetor. Then of course, a set of Lightning 2" headers. We put this bad boy on our in-house Dyno and banged out 712 HP @ 6800 RPM, on pump gas. Now before you go running off looking for your wrenches, there are a few important things to take into consideration: 1. Application. Will this combination work in my boat? Don't get caught up in looking for big horsepower numbers. In fact, horsepower numbers in regards to boats are pretty useless. Boat engines run in a stall condition. They run up to a particular RPM and then stall. Torque numbers are a more accurate way of measuring the output of a marine engine. THE ONLY THING HORSEPOWER FIGURES ARE GOOD FOR IN THE WORLD OF BOATS IS BRAGGING RIGHTS. 2. Camshaft selection. When selecting a camshaft, you have to take many things into consideration. At what RPM do I want the power to come in? What type of Header? Wet or Dry? Noise? Many states now want to see water coming out of your exhaust tips. The day of the dry tailpipe is coming to an end. Wet headers have significant muffling effect. Maintenance? The more aggressive the cam, the more maintenance involved. 3. How to read a Dyno report. Dynos do not measure Horsepower, they only measure Torque and RPM. Horsepower is calculated by this formula: Torque X RPM /5252 5252 is the constant. Below 5252 RPM Torque numbers are higher than Horsepower numbers. Above 5252 RPM Horsepower numbers are higher than Torque numbers. For the history of the term Horsepower and why we use 5252, click here. REVERSION-FREE CAMSHAFT AND LIFTER COMBOS Lets face it. The automotive engine does not like water in the exhaust. Add big cubic inches, a large overlap camshaft, wet exhaust; and the problem only gets worse. If you use an automotive style camshaft to build your marine engine, you're in for trouble. The automotive camshaft does not take into account the presence of water in the exhaust. If you use a automotive style camshaft with a duration greater than 220@.050, the engine will pull water back from the exhaust, making your engine a 8 cylinder water pump. Our marine camshafts are specially designed around wet exhaust. With custom designed valve timing event camshafts and specialty variable duration lifters that are available in flat and roller tappet designs. With camshaft durations from mild ( 220 @ .050/.500 lift ) to wild (270 @ .05/ .800 lift ). If you are determined to use a automotive style camshaft click here. Copyright © Lightning Mfg Corp. All Rights Reserved. Home | Catalog | Services | FAQs | Contact | About | Privacy | Sitemap