Acceleration is more about torque than horsepower. Dixie weighs ~4000 lbs with me in the driver's seat. The WBX had 90 hp and 115 ft/lbs torque, the Subaru 2.5 has 165hp and 165 ft/lbs torque. Divide. ;)
On Mon, Dec 6, 2010 at 10:25 PM, David Beierl <dbeierl@attglobal.net> wrote: > At 11:07 PM 12/6/2010, Larry Alofs wrote: > >> I have always felt that the throttle response of the WBX was very >> sluggish. It seems to me that the inertia of the vane would delay the >> > > The owner's manual for my Sunbeam Alpine said that if I wanted > quicker throttle response I could have N pounds machined off the > flywheel, but that it wouldn't idle as well if I did. > > On the Vanagon I've always thought it was the twenty horsepower per > thousand pounds that limited the rev rate...the Alpine had a blazing > 41 hp per thousand pounds. > > Yours, > David >
-- Jake 1984 Vanagon GL 1.9 WBX - 'The Grey Van' 1986 Westy Weekender/2.5 SOHC Subie - 'Dixie' Crescent Beach, BC www.thebassspa.com www.crescentbeachguitar.com http://subyjake.googlepages.com/mydixiedarlin%27 |
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