<VV> "Points" to ponder - HEI

Padgett pp2 at 6007.us
Fri Oct 28 23:56:09 EDT 2005


>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 



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