Guys,
Easy does it!
"Speak when you're angry and you'll make the best speech you'll ever
regret."
~Laurence Peter~
Tom, Redding CA - #216 D/GCC
Dave Dahlgren wrote:
>I will bet they all had 28.34 inch tall tire or at least a loaded tire radius
>that is equal to that.. About an 89 inch roll out. Sorry Doug it is all in the
>numbers. Think what you will it really doesn't matter.. Ususally when people
>think something is a bunch of horse crap it only means they don't understand
>it... I will make a deal with you, you delete my messages and I will delete
>yours, fair trade?
>Dave
>
>DOUG ODOM wrote:
>
>> O.K. I have stayed out of the power loss debates so far. The last
>>couple of months I have been helping tech for a road race group called
>>N.A.S.A. They run a class called A.S.C. American Stock Car. Now the
>>rules make you run a sealed ZZ4 crate motor. The motors have been
>>dynoing at 361 to 366 HP at the crank. This weekend we ran them on a
>>Dynojet chassis dyno. I will give you a sample of what we found below.
>>The main thing that I found interesting was this, Some cars had Ford 9",
>>some with Quick changes. Some had Jerico's some with T-10's. All had the
>>same spec tire and about the same rear gear ratio. So what was so
>>interesting? This--- They ALL lost the same amount of power!!!
>> Highest power 308.0 Lowest 302.2
>> Highest torque 362.3 Lowest 361.7
>> The car with the 308 power ran in the back and the lowest power car
>>won by 4 sec.
>> I think most of this power train loss figuring and charting is just a
>>case of mental masturbation.
>> Doug Odom in big ditch
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