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1. [Land-speed] Fw: Test (score: 1): Author: "Jim Dincau" <jdincau@qnet.com>; Date: Wed, 24 Oct 2007 07:13:31 -0700; According to Gordon White's book "Offenhauser" at the end of the Offy turbo era (1976) they were running 115" of boost for qualifying and 85" in the race. I think that is approximately 58 and 44 poun; /html/land-speed/2007-10/msg00236.html (6,771 bytes)
2. Re: [Land-speed] Fw: Test (score: 1): Author: <ddahlgren@snet.net>; Date: Wed, 24 Oct 2007 16:20:48 -0400; --==0683005543== Content-Type: text/plain; charset="windows-1250" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit They quote absolute pressure when using inches of mercury and actually a better idea and a better way; /html/land-speed/2007-10/msg00242.html (8,060 bytes)
3. Re: [Land-speed] Fw: Test (score: 1): Author: "joseph lance" <jolylance@earthlink.net>; Date: Wed, 24 Oct 2007 19:34:26 -0400; If I remember correctly those Offys were producing about 1100 HP ? Any body remember what their displacement was ? 1000 HP per Liter seems to be about the upper limit for turbo engines. Lance in Spri; /html/land-speed/2007-10/msg00243.html (8,112 bytes)
4. Re: [Land-speed] Fw: Test (score: 1): Author: "Mobley-Anderson" <mactem@mebtel.net>; Date: Wed, 24 Oct 2007 19:58:39 -0400; Lance and all, Quote from White's book, "Offenhauser". "The 159 cubic inch Offy developed more horsepower per cubic inch-about 7.5-than any other engine the world had then produced." (That's 1192hp).; /html/land-speed/2007-10/msg00244.html (7,569 bytes)
5. Re: [Land-speed] Fw: Test (score: 1): Author: "joseph lance" <jolylance@earthlink.net>; Date: Wed, 24 Oct 2007 20:21:07 -0400; Looks like about 530 hp/Liter for the Offy. I think one of Yacoucci's Busa dyno tests showed 7+ hp/cubic inch Thanks for the info and the Offy book lead (I'm going straight to Amazon to look for it); /html/land-speed/2007-10/msg00245.html (8,542 bytes)
6. Re: [Land-speed] Fw: Test (score: 1): Author: "John Burk" <joyseydevil@comcast.net>; Date: Wed, 24 Oct 2007 21:01:24 -0400; A friend drove a turbo Offy for the 1972 season . He talked about running 75 inches of boost and they were being conservative . He said coming out of the pits it had 60 hp at 6000 rpm before the turb; /html/land-speed/2007-10/msg00246.html (7,608 bytes)
7. Re: [Land-speed] Fw: Test (score: 1): Author: Mike Lackey <mike_lackey@yahoo.com>; Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2007 10:50:43 -0700 (PDT); What's the big deal about HP/L? I'll betcha I could design a turbo engine that produces 2000 HP/L... (getting someone to build it is another matter) HP/L isn't that meaningful unless you are only com; /html/land-speed/2007-10/msg00249.html (9,515 bytes)
8. Re: [Land-speed] Fw: Test (score: 1): Author: "joseph lance" <jolylance@earthlink.net>; Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2007 22:52:20 -0400; Mike--I agree about the engine size factor, them model airplane engines are But if we are talking about the 1-7 liter displacement range, top fuel dragsters are probably doing better than 1000 hp/lit; /html/land-speed/2007-10/msg00253.html (9,347 bytes)
9. Re: [Land-speed] Fw: Test (score: 1): Author: "joseph lance" <jolylance@earthlink.net>; Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2007 22:54:25 -0400; The Novi must've had a power curve like that. Lance _______________________________________________ Land-speed mailing list http://autox.team.net/mailman/listinfo/land-speed; /html/land-speed/2007-10/msg00254.html (7,952 bytes)

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