[s-cars] ECU what is the trick to opening it

[Kirby Smith]

I can't find at the moment the site I used google to find earlier today
for the conversion.  However, to clarify further, one SAE horsepower
does slightly more work than a DIN horsepower, so a specific DIN HP is
equivalent to a slightly smaller-valued SAE HP.

kirby


Steve Eiche wrote:
> 
> I may be (probably am) butchering this, but was wasn't it Carroll Shelby that said "We use big ole American horses here, not those little European ones." when someone compared the Cobra's rated output to that of a Ferrari's.  That is how I always remember the difference....
> 
> Steve
> 
> Actually, Kirby had it right.  The SAE horsepower is larger.  The way I
> always remember it is that the stock AAN is rated at 230 PS vs. the SAE
> rating of 227 HP.  And if you go to this site..
> 
> http://www.ilpjitra.gov.my/english/convert.htm#Power%20Conversions
> 
> ... and punch in 227 SAE horsepower..Viola!...you get 230 DIN horsepower,
> and 169 KW.  And going back to the original issue of 269 PS, that equates to
> 265 SAE hp with is an even larger discrepancy compared to the 280 HP usually
> quoted by Hoppen.
> 
> Bob
> 
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