Re: 4wd Mechanics

[chan@bach.seattleu.edu]

I was watching British Touring Car earlier this year on Prime Sport
Northwest on cable, all the cars in the series are no more than 2 litres
normally aspirated engine and they all make around 300bhp. Some of the
cars in the series are BMW 318i, Honda Accord, Volvo 850, Vauxhall and
Renault(can't remember the model of these two).  So I guess it's possible
to make 400+ bhp on an normally asiprated 2.5 litres engine. 

Anthony Chan

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> > for those of you not familiar with the series, the fia class 1 is for
> > "production-based" saloon cars of no more than 2.5 litres (normally aspirated)
> > displacement.  to all intents, it's a silhouette formula with fully race egines
> > generating in excess of 450hp, active diffs and suspension, carbon fibre sheels
> > and semi-automatic steering.
> 
> Donno but I sure like to know how they can get 450hp from atmospherically 
> breathing 2.5 litre engines!
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