Interesting chart. I assume by what you state below, air resistance is not factored into these graphed data. Alistair '82 westy, diesel converted to gas in '94 http://www.members.shaw.ca/albell/ On 23-Nov-05, at 6:58 AM, Bostig Eng. wrote: Here's a dyno chart of speed/rpm vs. time. Zetec up top, waterboxer below... and are gear limited... even if you had the power to push the van through air etc on the road, you would still top out at these speeds with this set of gears/tires. You see the rev limiters kick in at the top of the rpm curves: http://www.bostig.com/files/speed.gif Jim
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