By those calculations my fat ass is worth 25 horsepower. I think my first
modification should be having my mouth wired shut.
I don't know what the cost is, they say POA on the racestorations site. I
learned a long time ago that POA means "ridiculous"
-----Original Message-----
From: EISANDIEGO@aol.com [mailto:EISANDIEGO@aol.com]
Sent: Thursday, September 06, 2001 12:01 PM
To: Bill Babcock; vinttr4@geneseo.net; Rosspemlee@aol.com
Cc: fot@autox.team.net
Subject: Re: Aluminum (Performance Improvement verses Dollar)
Bill, sounds like you have been done this path even further...so
what
the cost of a complete aluminum body with Ti frame?
Someone once told me that in terms of performance, ten pounds of
weight loss was about equvalent to adding 1 horsepower. (True ???) How
much
hp equivalent are we talking about here in weight savings? What does that
translate to in terms of $/hp ?
If one spends $10,000 on a high performance engine which lasts a
season, how does that investment compare to a racecar body that could last
for decades. And as is apparent, squeezing more and more horsepower out of
these cars engines becomes increasing more $$/hp gained as one seeks to
get
better and better performance.
Cary
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