[Shotimes] Re: 300 hp

Wed, 6 Aug 2003 12:33:54 GMT

That was the GN34 mid-engined sports car that Ford was to manufacture in France.  The dollar took a dump and the car would have cost way too much to sell here.  It was killed, but they had a contract with Yamaha to build engines.  It ended up in a Taurus.  But it was not the exact same engine that was to go into the GN34.  That was supposed to be a 5 valve/cylinder engine.  And, I'm sure, tuned to work with a car that was at least 1000lbs lighter than the pigs we drive.  That engine might have had 300hp, but ours was never a 300hp engine. Ever.  Ever.  Ever. Live with it.  I have for 13 years...

Kerby

--- "Ron Porter" <ronporter@prodigy.net> wrote:

No. No proof ever came out, other than it being a rumor from 14 years ago.

A Yamaha engine was going to go into Ford's 2-seater Corvette fighter that
never saw the light of day, then someone came up with the idea to satisfy
the Yamaha contract by putting a motor into the Taurus. Could have been that
before the SHO project that there was going to be something more substantial
for a 2-seat sportscar, but then the 300 HP rumor never said the motor was
n/a, either.

The rumor went away at least 10 years ago, but I guess that newer SHO folks
just pick up the BS from somewhere.

Ron Porter 

-----Original Message-----
From: shotimes-admin@autox.team.net [mailto:shotimes-admin@autox.team.net]
On Behalf Of dean james
Sent: Wednesday, August 06, 2003 12:10 AM
To: shotimes@autox.team.net
Subject: Re: [Shotimes] Re: 300 hp

Of course everything you said is correct, but it is going beyond the 
original subject.  That subject being was there ever a 300HP yamahammer? 
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