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- Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 17:15:59 -0500
- From: Jyri Virkki <jyri+@CMU.EDU>
- Subject: Re: Why is US engine technology so retrograde?
- In-Reply-To: <1993Jan22.221059.11074@leland.Stanford.EDU>
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- tedebear@leland.Stanford.EDU (Theodore Chen) writes:
- >
- > oh, really. you haven't driven a corvette LT1 lately, have you?
- > hair-trigger throttle response at any engine speed. compare that
- > to the 300ZX turbo, which needs to see 4 grand to produce any kind
- > of power.
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- You seem to imply that 4Krpm is high? Like I said, small and large
- engines tend to have different characteristics. If you want your power
- at very low revs, say, <5Krpm, get a large engine with lots of torque
- at low rpms. Me, I don't particularly care if the engine makes a lot
- of power at idle because if I'm racing, the tach will surely stay in
- the 5000+ range.
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- Jyri J. Virkki | DoD#561 | jyri+@cmu.edu | Carnegie Mellon University | MSINI
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