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Subject: Re: Studebaker
Date: Tue, 19 Oct 1999 17:09:51 -0400
From: dahlgren <dahlgren@uconect.net>
To: dferguso@ebmail.gdeb.com
References: <8525680F.006622A2.00@ebmail.gdeb.com>
Lets have a show of hands.. On this list who's car goes how fast..
Documented.. Time slip better yet a record..I'll start 218 2 liters
G/FL runs 180 at the quarter and 230 out the back door...NEXT....Of
course with a Cosworth 'Pinto'
Dave Dahlgren
Could of had a V-8 just did not need one to get the driver in the 2
club.. Oh ya in gas the old record was 162 new # is 205.. Fuel was 198
now 218 Gee maybe a turbo and 250..
with a 2 liter..
ANYWAY WHO IS NEXT TO FESS UP ?
dferguso@ebmail.gdeb.com wrote:
>
> personally, i wouldnt be caught dead racing a pinto engine at one of the
> entire worlds fastest places-what a contradiction to me, engines this puny
> are made for shopping mall parking lots on a sunday morning - come on guys,
> there are no limits out there on the salt, this is blue flame territory-
> why not go as fast as you can with the most power you can get your hands
> on. why screw around with these dinky engines when for the same cost you
> could have a chevy / ford / mopar v-8 or similar more power oriented engine
> with twice the power, christ, these things must be wound out around the
> first mile marker, and the cost to get any worthwhile power at all out of
> them must be pretty high . i think driving one of these would be just as
> exiting as driving something powered by a potato battery from a sixth grade
> science experiment , with a little added noise.
>
> doug ferguson
> black radon engineering
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