Sweet Mr Kirby I didnt know you were into cars. IMO if youre into fast ELR wildcats then the interest in fast cars is only natural.
How are you getting that 700hp? Im guessing 2.3L TVS blower? What trans?
With all that gunsmith money Id say its about time to go on and sell the Camaro to start your twin 88mm turbo LSx C6 Vette racecar + 25.3 roll cage build so you can see what some real speed is all about! LOL. But seriously, if you ever do decide to go whole hog on a serious twin turbo build(or blower for that matter) let me just say Proline Racing is second to none and theyre very close to my house. Though theyre quite far from where youre at. Regardless, they can and did build the fastest turbo car on the planet, Mr Jose Gonalez`s El General Pro Mod. 268mph trap speed in the 1/4, Id estimate it was probably putting 3800-3900hp to the track on that run, with 4000+ hp potentially available.Though its not exactly something I would take on the street, to say the least LOL.
Anyway, Mr Kirby, you ever tried out the Cutting Edge bullets? Theyre pricy, but out of all the solids, it seems that CE has it together more so than anyone else and they have some serious high performance .375 cal stuff, heck just ask Mr Kiwi Greg.
Also, Mr Kirby, you ever thought about a .458-416 Barret Improved? I know from what you(and others) said that in its current form the .416 Barrett is overbore past the point of diminishing returns. Hence why the velocities dont seem too impressive, really not much more at all than .408 CT with same weight bullets. And with .458 VLD bullets starting to catch on(atleast, more than they used to be), it seems like it would be a pretty serious ELR caliber.
With that said, Mr Kirby, do you have an approximate estimate of what pressure your .510 AM is running pressure-wise with 750s at 3000 fps?
Sorry for all the questions, thanks.
Blake
Currently, my Camaro has:
Roto-Fab cold air intake
Magnuson TVS2300 supercharger
rear cog drive on supercharger
AR long tube headers
AR high flow cats.
Corsa 2.5" cat back exhaust
DSS one piece aluminum driveshaft
Complete replaced rear end(everything)
3.91 gears
Complete suspension replacement with 1.5" lowering kit
Custom JRE tune
Still running stock auto trans.
I am right at 690 hp now.
Next step up will be:
LPE dual fuel pump system
Overdrive cog drive for supercharger
ID-850 injectors
JRE smooth idle blower cam
LS3 conversion kit
Trick flow cylinder heads
That combo should easily allow up to 850 HP. The real question is if I want to keep building up my factory short block or just start over with a stouter block build for high boost, then 1000 hp would be pretty easy but I may have to switch to a different supercharger to get to that level. 800-850 is about max with the Maggie.
I am just building my dream muscle car. I do like the looks of the new 2014 Corvette stingrays but not sure that's in the cards. One might be surprised at the money involved in the gunsmithing world. Do not get me wrong, I make a good living, but would be doing much better with a steady flow of accessary parts to get a healthier cash flow estabilished again.
For a solid bullet design, the cutting edge bullets are probably the best out there for consistency but even they have some issues in about 25-30% of the rifles tried with them. CE usually just says this is a problem with loading technique but I know for a fact, several problems were not because of loading techniques. Still, that said, I will admit, they are one of the better solid bullet designs out there. Guess I am just old fashioned, prefer lead core bullets.
A 458 Barrett would be a much better design then the 416 Barrett is. Now that will get some fired up but in all reality, the Barrett case design has to much capacity for the 416 bore. Most 408 Cheytacs can come very close to matching the 416 Barrett and do so with 30-40 grains less powder. Stepping up to a 458 cal bore would allow much faster burning powders which would really open the options for powder and would make the case capacity much more efficient.
To be honest, a 50 Barrett will easily match anything the 50 BMG can produce because of the modern powders we have available to us.
To get the 510 AM up to 3000 fps, you either need a very long barrel or really run the pressure to it. Remember that in a 30-32" barrel length, a standard 50 BMG will drive an A-Max to around 2650 fps at 55,000 psi. Now its not a big deal to load it up to 2700 fps with a bit more pressure with no problems other then some heavy resizing force needed on the press but other then that, nothing really a problem.
Considering that the 510 AM is simply an improved version of the 50 BMG, you can expect to see 125-150 fps of additional velocity with same pressure loads, so if the top loaded 50 BMG will get you 2700 fps in a 32" barrel length, the 510 AM will get you into that 2850 fps range in same barrel length with similar chamber pressures.
Now if you add barrel length, things increase pretty impressively. I built a 45" long barreled 510 AM that easily broke 3000 fps with my standard loads. In fact around 3050 fps but remember that's only around 15 fps per inch of added barrel length!!!
Remember however that a 750 gr A-Max launched at 2700 fps has a kenetic energy payload of a bit over 12,100 ft/lbs. Adding only 150 fps to the combo jumps kenetic energy to over 13,500 ft/lbs and adding a very long barrel for 3000 fps will get you right at 15,000 ft/lbs!!! Now kenetic energy is not a great indicator for performance but its useful when comparing apples to apples such as this example.
I am hoping that my 510 Maximus wildcat will provide that 3000 fps performance but in a much more user friendly 34" barrel length. This is done by taking a 510 AM case design, moving the shoulder location forward for roughly 1/2 the case neck length which dramatically increases case capacity. Pretty much the the most capacity you can get out of the BMG parent case. Now, this does not mean this wildcat will be overly efficient. As mentioned earlier, even the standard 50 BMG has far more capacity then we need to get its standard performance levels. That said, with proper powder selection, you can take advantage of the larger capacities but we will have to see if theory meets real life when bullets get in the air.
these are all with conventional throat designs to keep everyone on the same playing field)
