Turbo Tuning

[RICE RACING]

Originally Posted by C. Ludwig

Pete, if you've never read Mark Donohue's auto biography you'd probably enjoy it. Lot's of personal insight on the development of the 917-10/30.

Thanks, I am going to look into that.

Also this car and topic of turbo tuning just reinforces to me how much people forget about history. Like today people shitting on about Time Attack this and that like its the best thing in the world. When back in 1972! you had a sub 900kg car that was 2wd and had a responsive and reliable 1500bhp!!! that would and did blow every single CHEV and FORD boat anchor out of the water

Dirty old mechanical injection
6.5:1 compression
No intercoolers
And only 5.4 liter capacity
CD Ignition
12.8:1 AFR on simple avgas
1.5bar boost

I said a long time ago for Time Attack to be taken seriously especially in a historical context, I would want to see 2.6lt 13B's running 1500bhp and being fitted in 950kg RX7's and then it would only just match what was done 40 years ago!!!! maybe I guess in 50 years time it might happen.

What happened to the world? I blame homosexuals and green peace.