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Re: Spitfire performance

To: Glenn Trunnell <trunnell@earthlink.net>, spitfires@autox.team.net
Subject: Re: Spitfire performance
From: Douglas Braun & Nadia Papakonstantinou <doug@dougbraun.com>
Date: Sat, 01 Jun 2002 20:28:53 -0400
At 07:44 PM 6/1/02, Glenn Trunnell wrote:
>My 
>main question is this: previously with the single ZS my car would turn 
>about 5300 in fourth gear.  Will anybody's pull the full 6000 with the 
>stock carb and emissions?


Sure, if the transmission is in neutral.  :-)

Personally, if my engine was not capable of surviving 6000 RPM, I would rather
not discover this while going about 90 MPH...  But now I am curious, and
I may try some day when I'm feeling lucky...

Doug Braun
'72 Spit

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