[s-cars] RE: Le Mans Classic - have I been to heaven ?

[joeamund]

Yes you are right Fred, I could not resist the oil and the V8, and felt that
since this is a US mailing  list I should not write any negative about the
american that approached us.

But here is the story:(no offence to the US-citizens on this list)
A guy approach Fred at the stand and want to see the engine room of my car. He
was what we could call a typical US-guy with a broad Texas accent. He wants to
know what size the injectors are, and I tell him they are RS2 and the
fuel-pressure is raised to 5 barg and I belive they are around 440 cc/min. He
wants the figures in US-units, preferably lbs/hr which I didn't remember. Then
I get a lecture on injectors, turboengines, and  that he "was building turbo
engines all day long" and knew it all. I then undestood that he was trying to
figure if my 420HP was real horsepower, so I asked him what his point was. And
I got a new lecture on engines, with a lot of words I cannot repeat. Suddenly
he stopped talking and rushed away. Damn I did not get his name, but he was
quite something. Not at all like the other US-citizens we met, which were all
nice people.(including the French Fred....)

If anybody on the list should hear this story at a later stage in the US, try
to find out his name.

Best reg, Joern


>===== Original Message From "Frederic L'Huillier" <flhuillier at siebel.com>
=====
>Hi,
>
>With such report, I bet you have pissed off half the list !!!!
>Anyway I should start to prepare an S-Internationnal Meeting in 2004 at Le
>Mans !!!
>
>It was definitely an outstanding WE. Thanks for coming all the way from
>North Europe.
>
>Regards,
>Frederic
>
>PS:
>You could not resist to mention the oil part for my V8 !!!!!
>You forgot to mention this guy who did not believe that you could get 400+
>HP from your engine because of size of the injectors !!!!
>