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Old 05-02-2001, 08:58 PM   #17
russotto
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Re: Re: What companies do you like?

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As for the venerable 302, it's hardly low-performance. Low tech, yes, but not low performance.
205 or 215 horsepower divided by 5.0 liters is 41 or 43 Hp per liter - one of the lowest performance, fuel injected, auto engines in the world at that time. The Mustang 5.0 obviously is a low performance engine. Energy that should have been moving the car instead advertises its low performance - loudly. You can tell a low performance engine either by the sound or by the arithmetic. Either way, the obsolete technology Ford 302 is a low performance engine.

Horsepower per liter doesn't measure anything particularly interesting in terms of performance. Displacement has no negative impact on performance that justifies dividing by it.

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