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From: haapanen@watdcsu.UUCP (Tom Haapanen [DCS])
Newsgroups: net.auto
Subject: Re: Big block vs emissions & HP, apples and oranges?!
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Date: Thu, 7-Mar-85 11:04:25 EST
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Posted: Thu Mar  7 11:04:25 1985
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In article <284@oblio.UUCP> jeff@oblio.UUCP (Jeff Buchanan) writes:

>Wrong again as usual.  The cars I'm comparing DO conform to the same standard.
>They are all street driven cars.  I drive my car on average 20 miles a day,
>just as the mentioned cars are.  Your mistake is choosing the wrong standard.
>If someone decides to weaken their engine with smog pumps and make other
>adjustments to meet the arbitrary standards of the EPA, that's their business.
>They can expect to get their doors blown.

Jeff, take a look at any reasonable sanctioned race series.  They have
separate classes for 'showroom stock' and 'modified'.  If you do work
on your car, it no longer is stock, and hence you end up being in a
different class.  Yes, they are apples and oranges.  Or is a street-legal
935 in the same class as you?

>For the most part, I am talking
>about street legal cars that did meet government standards the year they
>were produced.  Your comparison to a VW Beetle is comparing apples to
>oranges.  Sub-9 second VW's do exist, but they are trailered to the race 
>track and their slicks never touch a residential street.  Also, they
>don't have VW engines, blown hemi's are the norm for the cars you cite.

Wrong again as usual.  [ :-) ]  There are *many* street-driven VWs out
there that can do the quartermile in the 9-second range.  They don't
have blown hemis either; they usually run VW engines (no *real* VW
enthusiast will but a water-cooled engine in a Bug) in the 2-litre to
2.4 litre range, frequently turbo'd and occasionally with nitrous.
And they do blow rat-motored Corvettes off the stoplights.

>This is because there is no thrill beating a car that has purposely been
>designed to produce tiny amounts of horsepower.

Fine, Jeff, fine.  To each his own...

>But the EPA standards are arbitrary when you consider the
>REAL health hazards that the EPA purposely choose NOT to go after.

AMAZING!  Jeff, we actually agree on something!  EPA's and Environment
Canada's hypocrisy (sp?) really makes me puke.  Incidentally, where
are you going to get gas for your '66 when the new laws come into
effect?  I won't have the problem since I intend to sell my car in
order to make a trip to Europe this summer [ :-( and :-) ], but I'm
sure there are a h*ll of a lot of people out there with
high-performance engines (be they rat Chevys, blown VW flat-fours or
BMW 2002tii's).


				   \tom haapanen
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