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High Performance Systems
davidsen@yeti.crd.GE.COM (William E Davidsen) writes:
When I used to build racing engines a few decades ago (I was the D in
D&H automotive), we had someone stuff a 500hp street racing engine in a
Ford Falcon. It turned the tires but didn't put the power on the ground.
Bigger tires were added so it got enough bite to break the suspension,
which was improved until the transmission and driveshaft broke, which
were upgraded so the last version worked really well and twisted
the frame so badly the windshield popped out on the first shift, and the
doors wouldn't ever close once opened.
Moral: cheap and high performance are best done as fully integrated
*systems*, not by taking an unoptimized collection of parts and
upscaling or downscaling a few parts.
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