bhp

[Robert Harris]

Re Slick 50 - Jeff Hartmans book on High Performance fuels and lubricants
will leave you slick willyed if you slick 50'd.  Does far more damage than
just clogging thing - like prematurely wearing your engine out!!!!   RTFB,
then
dump the slick gump as quick as you can.

If the first ingredient ain't Habanero, then the rest don't matter.
Robert Harris <bob at bobthecomputerguy.com>


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> From: Sandy <sganz at wgn.net>
> To: diy_efi at coulomb.eng.ohio-state.edu
> Subject: Re: bhp
> Date: Monday, June 09, 1997 7:46 PM
> 
> At 01:34 PM 6/9/97 -0700, you wrote:
> >Tom, I can't tell if that is a serious question or not.
> >
> >If it is, the reason the hp ratings of today have reached the level of
the
> >hp ratings of 71 and before is that modern engines are >much< more
> >efficient (ve) than in the old days, and they are built for higher rpm
> >operation (higher operating rpm = more hp for less torque).
> >
> >If the question was not serious, then the reason is the manufacturers
now
> >use split fires and slick-50 for their dyno testing, which are worth at
> >least 50hp+.
> 
> Split fire plugs do nothing, and I doubt that slick 50 does much except
> clog the oil filters (no flames) just sounds a bit JC Whitney-ish, as 50
> free HP from that alone is on the edge of a bad joke.
> 
> 
> >
> >At 02:20 PM 6/9/97 +0000, Tom Cloud wrote:
> >>help ....  I've started a firestorm on the Bronco list
> >>when I said I'd observed in a '77 Motors Manual that the
> >>bhp ratings on all Ford/Mercury full-size vehicle engines
> >>dropped 100+ hp from '71 to '72 and that the hp stayed
> >>down until '77.  Was the way bhp calculated or measured
> >>changed in '72 or was the EPA-mandated changes the reason
> >>for the drop ????  If the way it was measured is what
> >>changed, then why have all the bhp numbers now risen
> >>back to the pre-'72 numbers and in fact many engines
> >>have even higher bhp outputs.
> 
> Look for compression drop, smog equipment, etc. Also I can't recall, but
I
> thought that the way the HP was measured was changed at one point or
> another. But i can't really remember for sure.
> 
> Sandy