>
> Hmmmmm... Good question. I had sorta' the same type of deal with a 5.0L
> late model stang... He had a head start and I was actually closing on him
> 'till things got a little heavy on the speedo. The Kota was like a raging
> monster until my auto. tranny took over and, even though I'm convinced the
> engine had more guts, it just didn't seem to accelerate at all... My only
> satisfaction was that the stang was burning mega amounts of oil on each
> shift (big clouds out of both pipes) in a new vehicle... Wonder if he made
> it wherever he was going, hehehe.
>
> T.
>
>
> ______________________________ Reply Separator _________________________________
> Subject: DML: High-end acceleration
> Author: <dakota-truck@buffnet.net> at smtpout
> Date: 10/13/98 8:40 PM
>
>
> I realize that some will have safety issues with this, please direct
> them via private e-mail. For those of you w/ badges, I came up with the
> following question w/ theoretical math.
>
> I ended up "playing" with a Camaro/Firebird, newest body style, driving
> from East St.Louis over into Mo. My acceleration from 50 to 80 happens
> in the blink of an eye, so going about 80, I pull up next to him, and we
> both floor it. Like I said, from 50 up I had no problem keeping w/ him,
> but when we hit it going 80, he was gone! I was left standing, barely
> accelerating at all. Why is it when I hit it going 50, 60, even 70,
> there is a jolt of power, but none at about 80 and above? I assume this
> is a tranny/rear end thing?
> I felt better the next night, though, when I raced an obviously modified
> camaro, older body style, loud exhaust and wider rear tires/wheels, and
> ticked him off 'cause I was passing him when we both had it floored, and
> he was obviously spanked, so he passed the people in front of us in the
> left hand turn lane and ran away like a little pouting baby! HA!
> Later,
> Robert
> p.s. All of the above is fictional. :-)
>
I'm thinking it may be the intake folks, designed for high
torque low end. Now put on a Magnum MPI single plane intake
and you'd feel something different at high speeds.
GS -
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