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Old 02-05-2005, 07:30 PM
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Herb Adam's Chassis engineering book has a good chapter on rotating inertia. To lose 15 pounds of rotating weight at engine speed is worth equivalant to 32 effective horsepower. Losing weight that rotates at engine speed is a very good thing.
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