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Old 04-23-2021, 06:24 PM   #56
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Originally Posted by Irace86.2.0 View Post
It probably would have been fine on the 85mm pulley. 75mm pulley puts the car around 400+, so doubling the horsepower on stock internals. I really think the bump had a big thing to do with it. That amount of sudden jarring jerk at 12+ psi at the time was enough probably, but who knows?

At the moment, I suspect you do.

Edit: Actually, I'm being a jerk. Sorry the engine let go. It's funny (not your situation, but the twisted reality) you can extract a lot of horsepower from these things, but like having one's cake and also eating it, you can't use it. I know next to nothing about quantum mechanics but I vaguely remember some property of particles that observing them makes them unfindable. (somebody help me here). In our case the engine can make a whole lot of power, but if you explore that power, the engine vanishes.

I am now convinced that the stock engine is just fast enough for this old man.
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