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Old 08-14-2008, 03:46 PM
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Originally Posted by Red S/C View Post
One of the posts here suggests you'll lose between 35% and 45% flywheel to rear wheel horse power. Those figures are considerably higher than anything we've seen in the race cars we have built.
Stock/standard exhausts will drive the losses up that high.

You can't expect to get good rwhp numbers with low losses from the crank without a special effort put into the exhaust.
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