Lotsa hot HP

[Brett Dikeman]

At 12:20 PM -0700 9/17/03, tihol tiholov wrote:
>Didn't relay this because it was disappointing but ... Saw on Monday
>on Deutsche Welle a few cars capable of going over 300 km/h being
>tested on a track.
>  MTM RS6 goes out with the boss Roland Mayer behing the wheel, gets
>to 260 and serious flames burst under the engine, so it's back to
>the pits, fire out out - cause yet unknown.

Sounds like an air-conditioned block; super-hot oil hits exhaust etc,
and you better not have had anything you wanted on the underside or
back of the car.

>  MTM Bimoto TT (860 HP) never got out - engine damage of some sort.
>  Scoring over 300 km/h are the usual suspects -
>1. Porsche
>2. Brabus MB
>3. Ferrari

That's nothing.  Try 250 mph on a -motorcycle-.

There's footage running around of a guy on a turbocharged Suzuki,
doing exactly that- the footage is astounding.  The speedo is almost
full-sweep, and the after the front end comes down, the needle just
keeps going, and going, and going, at which point it pegs at 250 and
the digital speedo readout takes over.

B
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