<VV> "Points" to ponder - HEI

[Tony Underwood]

At 08:56 hours 10/28/2005, Padgett wrote:

>>In a Corvair turbo, the combustion chamber pressures were probably higher
>>than any other production car on the world at the time they were built.
>
>Well, no. The contemporary R-2 and R-3 supercharged Studebaker 
>engines were setting a lot of land speed records in production trim. 
>These used dual point (R-2) and transistor ignition (R-3).
>
>Padgett



If I'm not wrong, a Studebaker  Avanti still holds a land speed 
record for a US built stock production automobile at ~191 mph.


tony..