"WaIIy" wrote in message
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Please list the boats that run a 454 at WOT and 3100 rpm.

This is the claim you made that I asked you to address.

You totally missed the point. The discussion wasn't about what RPM an engine
would achieve at Wide Open Throttle, the discussion was about how much air
the engine would draw into the engine room.

If you want to nit-pick and draw things off topic I will counter that I
never made any claim about 3100 RPM. You are the first one to mention that
specific, exact RPM.

If you want to be a bit more reasonable and talk about more general terms as
a means of conveying information then I will point out that on many boats
with planing hulls there will be a period of time that the boat may operate
at WOT while the boat accelerates and climbs up on plane. The RPMs that the
engine achieves during this period will be significantly below the maximum
RPM it will eventually achieve.

To drag this back into the context of the discussion thread: Terry Sprag
said "After it starts, it will suck air much faster than any vent fan can."

I submitted a calculation that shows that a fairly good sized engine,
running at a fairly common RPM would NOT draw air "much faster" even at the
worst operating, which is WOT. Closing the throttle will only strengthen my
position.

If you dispute the argument that I make then offer some reasonable counter
argument, don't just throw needless flak out to confuse the issue.

Rod