On Saturday, Jun 7, 2003, at 00:47 Europe/London, Randall Young wrote:
>> I saw Richard Bull's TR5 race car doing 1' 31" laps around Goodwood
>> (with a passenger!) at a Track Day and the car looked so, so fast
>> along
>> the Lavant Straight
>>
>> When he came in I asked him what he was revving to and he just leant
>> in
>> and pressed the telltale on the Stack tacho. It pinged straight off
>> the
>> scale at 8000+ rpm
>>
>> So Classic Racecraft can build an engine that'll pull 8K....
>
> Ok, I sit corrected !
>
> Any bets on whether he was using a stock crank and rods ?
I'd guess the crank was machined out of solid unobtainium
And the rods are forged pyrolitic titanium-beryllium-boron alloy
Put it this way - whatever they're made of, it ain't cast-iron!
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