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Re: UFO rotors



Don't forget tires.

Not to mention the fact that I'll take a six feet shorter stop distance
everyday of the week when it comes time to lay into the anchors hard.

Dave

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> From: Phil Payne <quk@isham-research.demon.co.uk>
> To: quattro@coimbra.ans.net
> Subject: RE: UFO rotors
> Date: Saturday, March 13, 1999 5:03 AM
> 
> In message <199903130827.AAA28883@serval.noc.ucla.edu> "James A.
Desveaux" writes:
> 
> > Okay, without disputing any statements on the list regarding the
superiority
> > of UFOs from a physics perspective, or the fact that they feel better,
it is
> > curious to me that R&T's test of the '91 200Q in Nov or Dec '90 listed
the
> > minimum stopping distance for the car from 80mph at 252 ft.  For the
'90
> > V8Q, that distance was a bit shorter, around 246 ft, I think.  In the
June
> > '92 R&T, they have the S4 stopping (with G60s) from 80 mph at 247 ft.
> 
> Missing data points:
> 
> a) Stopping distance for earlier 200TQs.
> 
> b) Weights.
> 
> --
>  Phil Payne
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