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Re: SM2 survival

To: roadsterboy@earthlink.net
Subject: Re: SM2 survival
From: bthatch@juno.com
Date: Fri, 8 Mar 2002 16:33:58 -0500
Bring on the turbo Miatas. If power is the issue, you don't even want to
know what an SM2 Vette will have. But we all know that power isn't the
name of the autocross game.

> > In the San Francisco area, we have a class called B Street 
> Prepared-Vintage,
> > which includes all Corvettes pre-C4. 
> > Don't know if the owners of these cars would care to compete head 
> to head
> > with a SC Miata. :)
> 
> I don't know why they'd be afraid of that.  The most commonly 
> available SC kit for a Miata uses an Eaton M45, which is only good 
> for 8psi tops.  The REAL powerhouses are turbocharged; there's a kit 
> that will give you around 270rwhp at 12psi.
> 
> Now if I were pedaling a Vette, I don't think I'd wanna go up 
> against that!
> 
> Scot
> '91 non-SM2 Miata
> -- 
> 
> 

Ben Thatcher
http://ApexBenefits.biz

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