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[Tom Cloud]

At 08:24 AM 6/10/97 -0400, Dave Compton wrote:
>SAE Net was measured at the crank, however the engine was saddled with all
>it's normal accessories and the exhaust it would be used with in the car.
>
>SAE Gross was just the motor.  open exhaust, no alternator etc.
>
>Concurrently, compression dropped to reduce emmisions.  And then a black
>hole period of about 13 years ensued before they figured out how to tune
>them for reduced emmisions.  
>
>BTW, ALL of the EFI enhancements were to keep the A/F ratio right at
>stoichmetric (sp?), so the catalytic converter would efficiently work, and
>not die.  So we can THANK cat cons for our cool EFI.  
>
>Enhanced spark systems, headers, and the ram tuning stuff was just good
>engineering.
>
>Dave
>DCompton at JNPCS.COM

thanks Dave .... I think you've put what I've deduced into
the most succinct form -- that means, whether it's true or
not, I agree with it  ;-)

Tom Cloud <cloud at peaches.ph.utexas.edu>