Originally Posted by
jackie wilson
Ron,if you look back to around the late sixties/early seventies there was a massive leap forward in motor technology.Tolerances got finer, RPM started to go through the ceiling, HP went ballistic, reliability increased beyond recognition.
My own belief is that using a well tried V8 Ford, Cosworth Engineering re-designed it from top to bottom.
This proved to be so successful that Honda, Toyota, and then the French and Italians soon started buying them, dismantling, and in some cases even improving their own motors as a direct result of the Cosworth.
You don't have to look any further than the USA,and firms like ILMOOR, with it's ex Cosworth staff, to see the way the cookie crumbled.
In twenty years it went from 6,000revs to 20,000.
Hp up from 300 to 1,000.
Reliability as never before.
Barring accidents all 24 cars will finish a race.
Create a formula------normally aspirated------regular fuel------length and weight to be decided----any manufacturer, YANK,JAP, CHINK, ARGY OR ITEYE, it don't matter if you keep to a formula.
Stay away from Turbo's it'll be the death of car racing as we know it.
Clever bit would be to see how little you could do it for-----KT's could resurrect the sport..
PS. I don't charge for this .
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