Hi, Adam; knowing that the factory was fine-tuning & blue-printing the
engine, in preparation
for the assault on Daytona, it is also reasonable to assume that the
proving grounds engineers
probably got to play around with scraping-off all the mastic sound
deadener, and anything else
that they could think of, in trying to lighten-ship, to try to
increase the power to weight ratio.
My 3600 pound weight-opinion might just be a tad too light, but, I'd bet
that, if a loaded CRL
came in at almost 3900 lbs, the engineers might have been able to take
off up to 200 lbs,
in creating that race car D500-1.
You have to recall that, without any further modifications, that
130/81 MPH Coro was the fastest STOCK
D500-1 ever built.
I would REALLY like to know what the factory could have done, in a
similar manner, with the
much more powerful D501 (probably having to run with a TorqueFlite
trannie, however).
Adam Lindenbaum wrote:
Wow if that really works I guess there is no need to spend all of this
time at a drag strip. Tire pressure,aerodynamics, driver
skills,traction,tuning,atmospheric conditions all really never made as
much of a difference as we all thought! Give me a break! And try more
likely 3800 pounds!
Adam Lindenbaum
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