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RE: RE: TR-6 performance (Q&A)

To: Jim Swarthout <jswarth1@tampabay.rr.com>
Subject: RE: RE: TR-6 performance (Q&A)
From: "Robert M. Lang" <lang@isis.mit.edu>
Date: Wed, 4 Dec 2002 10:38:43 -0500 (EST)
On Wed, 4 Dec 2002, Jim Swarthout wrote:

> List members,
> 
> At what RPM does a stock 6/250 stop producing power? I'm not talking
> about whether or not it will achieve redline...I want to know when the
> engine stops making power, at what point is it futile to hold the
> accelerator any longer before shifting. This is a drivers question...get
> it within 100RPM's.
> Think about what I've said, go drive your car if need be!

In a stock car, I'd have to say things "stop happening" at around 4500,
more or less. Change to K&N's and it does up a tad, maybe 150 RPMs. 
 
> Jim Swarthout

regards,
Bob "seat of the pants" Lang
p.s. I can't try this in my car right now - the roads are salty and it's
too cold to drive with the top down. :-) Oh, and the cam and other stuff
make the car non-stock, I guess. Nyuk, nyuk.
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