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[Burl Vibert <bvibert@mercury.kosone.com>]

>I last week I had a series of stop light runs with a friend driving his
>very cherry '78 Porsche 911 SC Euro targa. He would consistently be
>behind by about a half a car length through each gear to about 90 wheb
>he was about 2+ lengths back. (we backed down at that point.) He says he
>has about 285 hp. I have Neds chip in a '91 20v. He used to have a V8 Q
>and was shocked at what happened. Should I have been too? Is this the
>result you would expect? His car runs fine and so does mine (1.8 bar). I
>noticed I had a fuel cut off once. Does this happen at 7K rpm? My old
>buggy has 188K and I probably should not been doing that but...
>
>Any body know how fast that old 911 should be? 
>

A '78 911SC would have to be fairly extensively to have 285hp, a stock Euro
had 204hp with little left to improve upon. 0-60mph is about 6.5 seconds.
Methinks maybe he's inflated his hp figures...
Then again, driving skill has a lot to do with getting maximum acceleration.
Either way, he lost.

Burl Vibert
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