Wow, are those HP#s at the wheels?
Peter
'68 TR250 (The TIG weldor came today to inspect my mess on the diff
brackets, he said no problem to fix. Next time I'll leave the upside down
thin metal welding to a pro.)
on 12/3/02 4:25 PM, Robert M. Lang at lang@isis.mit.edu wrote:
> On Tue, 3 Dec 2002, Gary Fluke wrote:
>
>> Does anybody have an idea what the power and weight of this C-Production car
>> would be?
>
> I don't have exact numbers, but the Kastner PI numbers were up in the 190
> HP range and went up to over 250 with a lot of tweaking.
>
> The cars (scca production class TR6's) would have had to weigh about 2300
> pounds in race trim, so the numbers are pretty near the 10 pounds per HP
> magic number.
>
> I can't speak for others, but I have driven my race car with about 150 HP
> and 2000 pounds, and the thing accelerates like a rocket. The 4.88 gears
> help too.
>
>> Gary
>> '73
>
> vrooomm, screech!
> rml
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