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Re: pounds per horsepower

To: "Terry and Donna Cost" <tcost@vvm.com>,
Subject: Re: pounds per horsepower
From: "datsunmike" <datsunmike@nyc.rr.com>
Date: Sun, 29 Oct 2000 17:06:00 -0500
Terry,

My Miata weighs exactly the same as my Roadster. The newer ones gained
100lbs but gained 40HP!

Mike

----- Original Message -----
From: Terry and Donna Cost <tcost@vvm.com>
To: Datsun Roadsters <datsun-roadsters@autox.team.net>
Sent: Sunday, October 29, 2000 4:15 PM
Subject: pounds per horsepower


> At the SCCA impounds following my runs they let me weigh my roadster and
it
> weighed 2050 pounds.  Add my 250 and my roadster is at 2300 pounds.  I
have
> the 135 horsepower engine, which gives me just about 17 pounds per
> horsepower.  A 150 horsepower Miata, at 2500 pounds, is also 17 pounds per
> horsepower.  I think that 1 pound per horsepower also is one second, so if
I
> can run the ratio down to 12 pounds per horsepower I can beat Miatas by 5
> seconds. I can:
>
> a)  lose 80-100 pounds
> b)  install a 200 HP engine
> c)  lose 100-200 pounds from the Gray Ghost
> d)  buy a 350 horse Camaro (3000 pounds, 9 pounds/HP) and put Fairlady
> emblems on it.
>
> My son Andy used to beat me regularly at autocrosses by 1/2 second until
he
> got married.  He gained a few pounds and now he doesn't beat me regularly
> any more. I feed him every chance I get.
>
> Leisure Suit Terry
>


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