All this horsepressure talk brings back some memories. Bill
Boemler of ST. Louis had a very strong TR3 in the early '70's
late 60's. I believe he held the production car record at Mid
American Raceway for about a year with it. I personally witnessed
a fine racelong battle he had with a very strong Bp corvette at a
regional there. He drove my TR3 ( i needed someone to give me
a clue how to drive it!) and said I was about 25 horse short of him.
Well, I figured I was making about 130-5 at the clutch at the time.
Who knows for sure? You can get a very close number at the clutch with
the following formula. This requires a real 1/4 mile dragstrip or a
an illegal one you can test on. all up weight times trap speed cubed
divided by 12,100,000
eg: 2800 lb car w/ 200lb driver does 100mph at the end of the 1/4
this should come out to about 248 SAE net at the clutch.
art de armond
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