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Re: [Land-speed] Fw: Test

To: "LandSpeed List" <Land-speed@autox.team.net>
Subject: Re: [Land-speed] Fw: Test
From: "John Burk" <joyseydevil@comcast.net>
Date: Wed, 24 Oct 2007 21:01:24 -0400
A friend drove a turbo Offy for the 1972 season . He talked about running 75 
inches of boost and they were being conservative . He said coming out of the 
pits it had 60 hp at 6000 rpm before the turbo kicked in and 1000 hp at 
10000 rpm .

> "...while John Miller was running a turbo Offy on the All American
> Racers dyno the waste gate froze shut.  The engine's revs jumped to
> 10,200, and the engine put out nearly 1400 horsepower- about that of the
> Merlin engine used in the World War II P-51 Mustang fighter."
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