[Shotimes] Re: 300 hp

[Jonathan Zane]

I'm having a hard time believing a SHO only weighs 3400#  My mustang has to
weigh 3300 w/driver for my NMRA class.  A friend of mine has a completely
gutted Mustang with Plexi windows and it weighs 2800 with driver.  I just
don't buy it.

Jon 


> -----Original Message-----
> From: shotimes-admin@autox.team.net 
> [mailto:shotimes-admin@autox.team.net] On Behalf Of Ron Porter
> Sent: Wednesday, August 06, 2003 1:17 PM
> To: 'dean james'; shotimes@autox.team.net
> Subject: RE: [Shotimes] Re: 300 hp
> 
> 
> I'll still say "NO".
> 
> You also have to define it as when it became the "SHO V6", 
> and not the "Yamaha Engineering Exercise Engine". Wouldn't 
> surprise me at all that Yamaha had a 1,000 different 
> configurations for it, and at one time maybe they hit 300 on 
> a dyno. But as an engine in the trim configured for the 
> Taurus.....I stay with "NO".
> 
> Still, so what?? People put WAY too much emphasis on a HP 
> number. I'll bet there's no one here who would like driving a 
> 300 HP n/a 3.0 V6 in a 3,400 # car as a daily driver.
> 
> Ron Porter