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From: SimRacer <NOsimrace...@yahoo.comSPAM>

Date: Wed, 23 Jul 2008 17:12:30 -0400

Local: Thurs, Jul 24 2008 2:12 am

Subject: Re: Toyota ordered to lower their horsepower

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On Wed, 23 Jul 2008 18:14:42 GMT, chuck_st...@nospam.com (Chuck Steak)
wrote:

>In article simrace...@yahoo.comSPAM wrote:

>>Whoda thunk it?

>What bullshit...
>Why didn't they restrict the Roush cars?
>They both had more hp than the 20 car.... which has won 9 times....

Agreed. Also forgot to mention that this was *just* for the Nationwide
series. So Toyota figured it out...fine, let the others make similar
changes or suck hind tit until they do. And yes, I am a Chevy man.

And IMHO, raw horsepower numbers do not tell the whole tale when it
comes to racing engines or engines in general. This is why I laugh at
commercials today that advertise "250HP" or "275HP" in 4-6 banger
street cars. Yeah, they may actually make that much horspower...at
their redline maybe...and have no grunt on the low end (torque) to
speak of. This is why I still don't understand the point of Honda's
S2000. Who cares if it can rev to 9k RPM? Who wants to have to rev it
that high to get to a decent HP and TQ number to begin
with...(rhetorical, no question mark required)....But I digress...

>Dan
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>"I am" is considered to be the shortest sentence..
>"I do" is considered to be the longest....

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