Don't know if I have these numbers exactly right, but I guess normaly about
25% of HP get eaten up in the drive line. I understand that the NASCAR boys
have that down to 10 to 15%. Things like a Quickchange that we generaly
prefer makes the problem worse...a Chevy 12 bolt is much more efficient as
an eample...better even than a Ford 9". Most automatic transmissions are
horrible.
John Beckett
At 08:47 AM 5/6/99 -0600, Daniel Wright wrote:
>Hi
>I know that a lot of power produced by the engine is lost as friction and
>inefficiency in the transmision and diffreential. What are the best
>choices for those components for Salt flats racing? What are the tradeoffs
>involved? What can be done to increase effenciency in a given setup?
>Dan Wright
>Dept. of Human Genetics, University of Utah
>dan@saltflats.com
>Utah Salt Flats Racing Association
>"It's amazing what you can do when you don't know it can't be done"
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