Lightweight flywheels on turbo cars

George Roffe geo3@earthlink.net
Wed, 9 Oct 2002 13:31:08 -0500


Terry Heick, Modern Sports Car wrote:

>I'm referring, I think, to the same logic of turbo cars being dyno'd in
>higher gears rather than those lower.

Ahhh...

That is just a measure of hp.

But, that is not the same thing as acceleration.

I'm not saying I'm right.  Just think things through.

It would be interesting to get instrumented testing of this, but I don't
see it happening.

George Roffe
Houston, TX
91 SE-R (well modded)
91 G20 turbo (well modded)
84 944 SCCA ITS race car under construction
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