or you could just take the nice 2.0 liter out of my Galant VR-4 with 210
horses and absolutely not weight. And for under $1000 dollars in mods you
can have at least 350 horse....hmmmm something to think about....
aaron
On Fri, 12 Mar 1999 DANMAS@aol.com wrote:
> In a message dated 99-03-12 09:33:41 EST, sugar@holly.ColoState.EDU writes:
>
> > There really are no cheap way to increase horsepower a noticable
> > amount. <snip> The way to really start making
> > more horsepower is this formula $=horsepower. <snip> $100-300 <snip>
> $50-1000 <snip> 200 bucks
> <snip>$800 <snip> ($100 or so). <snip> $200 <snip> $4.50 a gallon for gas
> <snip> $1600 <snip> You now have an engine with about 230
> > horse and no reliability. <snip>
>
> Aaron,
>
> Actually, there is a "relatively" cheap way - pick up the phone and order a
> Ford crate enigine and stick it in where the tired old six used to be. For a
> little more than the cost of a good rebuild, you can have 230 very reliable
> and very streetable horses. Or, spend another grand or so and get the GT40
> engine with aluminum heads and 320 horsepower - streetability yet to be
> determined.
>
> Your equation $ = horsepower is valid, but there is one other equation that
> also works, and that is displacement = horsepower. Unfortuneately,
> displacement often equals dollars as well, so we have HP = displacement = $.
>
> All the above said with tongue firmly in cheek!
>
> Dan Masters,
> Http://members.aol.com/danmas
> Atlanta GA (till tomorrow)
>
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