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From: davew@shark.UUCP (Dave Williams)
Newsgroups: net.auto
Subject: Re: Rear Wheel HP Question
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Date: Thu, 18-Apr-85 11:47:53 EST
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Posted: Thu Apr 18 11:47:53 1985
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A considerable amount of horsepower is lost in the drive train
of a car and a loss of 35-50% is not uncommon. The figure of
600 HP at the rear wheels really seems to be streatching the
truth a bit. If the 35% figure is used then the HP at the flywheel
would be ~920 HP! Assuming the 427 was not bored and stroked to
some huge size, this would result in 2.15 HP/cu. in. This seems
to be a bit much. Incidently, who has a 600 HP chassis dyno?
I've been out of the racing business for a number of years, but
the largest I remember seeing was 425 HP.

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                                    Dave Williams
                                    Tektronix, Inc.
                                    Engineering Computing Systems

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