SeanDezart
Well-Known Forum User
Albrecht said:Yes - but this is not surprising really is it?
We know what engine spec the car was using when it crashed ( and therefore also what it qualified / final practiced with ); the 'Safari' / FIA head casting and Works triple side-draught injection with the Jetronic 'computer'. Such a set-up would have absolutely no problem producing that nice round "300ch" peak power figure - if not more.
Your friend assumed that the quoted "300ch" figure must have indicated an LY crossflow engine ( and committed this to writing without checking his facts ) - but we know that the car was not fitted with an LY when it crashed.
I think it is dangerous to assume anything........
Count,
I'm not baiting you here but can we assume that the engine the car crashed with was the same engine it qualmified and practiced with ?
The A.C.O can be very fickle and more biased and 'blind sometimes' than Bernie Ecclestone !
I think my, hrhum, 'friend' assumed such because he might have difficulty in producing an SOHC engine that gets near the 300 mark ! Therefore assuming (for his own pride) that the engine would have to have had a 'trick' head in order to produce such power !