On Tue, Mar 06, 2001 at 08:08:54AM -0800, Dave Wood profoundly declared:
> James,
>
> I caught that also. How much danger to the other cars and onlookers would a
> thrown rod cause at 23 or 24 thousand rpm?
I doubt that at this point it makes much difference from 14k to 24k. It's
gonna be a missile either way you look at it, but I see your point.
>I thought that either Toyota or
> Honda was testing an engine that ran at 20, 22 thousand rpm for this year.
> There was some talk about it last year on Speedvision. The F1 cars sound
> more like turbines that piston engines already.
I hadn't heard that, but I wouldn't be to surprised.
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James Nazarian Jr
71 MGB roadster
71 MGBGT - with V8 parts
01 Impreza 2.5RS
A complex system that does not work is invariably found to have
evolved from a simpler system that worked just fine.
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