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90bhp isn't what you'd call an impressive specific output, I wonder whether it has enough torque to make up for its absence of power?
I read about that car in a NECPWA newsletter some time ago but that piece didn't mention anything about the engine spec. Is it a Rover V8 with a severe lack of compression and a very, very worn camshaft? I'm struggling to imagine how you'd get so few horses from something that big. Unless of course it's a Californian engine from the depth of the "anti-smog" era.
So how about another one? I'll post something if nobody else has come up with a suitably obscure motor by sunset today!
J "Home is where you park it", so the saying goes. That may yet come true..
1937 Jowett 8 - Project - in less pieces than the Jupiter
1943 Jowett Stationary Engine
1952 Jowett Jupiter - In lots of peices http://Jowett.org/
1952 Jowett Javelin - Largely original
1973 Rover P6 V8 - Original / 22,000 miles
Is it a steam car or is that just radiator steam / exhaust getting blown forwards?
Understeer: when you hit the wall with the front of the car.
Oversteer: when you hit the wall with the back of the car.
Horsepower: how fast you hit the wall.
Torque: how far you take the wall with you.
JPB wrote: 90bhp isn't what you'd call an impressive specific output, I wonder whether it has enough torque to make up for its absence of power?
I read about that car in a NECPWA newsletter some time ago but that piece didn't mention anything about the engine spec. Is it a Rover V8 with a severe lack of compression and a very, very worn camshaft? I'm struggling to imagine how you'd get so few horses from something that big. Unless of course it's a Californian engine from the depth of the "anti-smog" era.
Err it was a Russian kit car powered by an engine from one of those copied american cars
90bhp isn't what you'd call an impressive specific output, I wonder whether it has enough torque to make up for its absence of power?
