Friday, January 24, 2014
Nervous Idle
Thanks to John Kraman of the Velocity/Mecum team for this term. I've called it a lopey idle, but like Kraman's description much better. From now on, in my dictionary, it's a Nervous Idle.
Here's lopey. We've all heard it. (The car sounds good at higher revs and I don't disparage a lopey idle: I paid extra to get one.)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=71rGFVP6kRQ
A lopey idle is a Cheetah cruising the Serengeti, looking for prey. A Nervous Idle is a Cheetah getting ready to pounce. If all you brung was your lopey idle, you're the Wildebeast calf. Move more toward the center of the herd. Here's a Nervous Idle:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LlKkds2Lhx8
A nervous idle doesn't necessarily require a big-block. Small-block unblown gassers and Trans Am racers had one. All you really need is a radical camshaft, big compression, and a fairly open exhaust.
2 comments:
Boss 429. I want one. That one. I want that one.
I love the 10-year-old in the background who makes his Mom stop so he can listen and watch. That would have been me, 15 years before the Boss 9 was built...
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