I think you are confusing the difference between brake horsepower (bhp -
measured at the flywheel) and net horsepower (which is bhp measured at the
flywheel with all accessories installed and running) and DIN horsepower
(which no one has been able to define so far). Net horsepower is measured
at the flywheel after driving the smog pump, power steering pump, water
pump, alternator, & air conditioning. The net measurement went into effect
in 1973 for American made cars and this is exclusively why the 400
horsepower specs disappeared.
Also, according to Horler, the 65bhp spec for home market 1500s was not
"the later and standardised DIN values of measured horsepower" (see p 127,
last paragraph)......who to believe.......we may never settle this.
Les
Les
At 06:30 PM 2/10/98 -0500, you wrote:
>Les Myer wrote:
>> configuration up to 65bhp for the home market. Given that the 1275 was
>> 65bhp.
>
> The home market 1500 is 65hp DIN, which is a much stricter
>measurement and is quite simply more than the "65hp" using
>the older standards that the 1275 is depicted in.
>
> This is the same reason why those "400 hp muscle cars"
>disappeared and were replaced with numbers sometimes under
>half that, even though the actual losses were not so much.
>
>--
>Trevor Boicey
>Ottawa, Canada
>tboicey@brit.ca
>http://www.brit.ca/~tboicey/
>
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