Postby Hasbeen » 29 Nov 2009 08:12
Yes Beans, I'm sure mine would, but I am also pretty sure, it would
be accelerating faster, if I had changed to 3Rd, 4TH & 5th a couple
of thousand RPM earlier. I have proved these feelings right, on the
track, in the past, but I WAS A LITTLE BIT younger, & probably had
more highly tuned senses, back then.
I did have one 7, with SZ carbs, so probably a US spec engine, which
needed more than 3500 RPM, to have any chance of climbing any sort
of a hill. It was totally gutless below that. Our local town has an
80 to 100Km zone, at the bottom of a moderate hill. My current 7
will comfortably accelerate up to 100 in 5Th, up the hill. The SZ
carb car would not accelerate even in 4Th, & had to howl in third
to gain any speed.
It did not seem to mind being revved a fair bit. On a long trip,
even with a bit of range work, it would get down into the mid
7.5L/100Km fuel economy.
I did a bit of experimentation on this some time back. I did a
series of runs in 5Th gear, taking the time at each 20KPH from 40 to 140.
I was quite surprised to find my 7 is quicker to get fron 60 to
80K/H, than for any other 20KPA range, yes, in 5Th. I felt it was
accelerating harder from 80 to 100KPA, & it seemed to be going much
harder, from 100 to 120, but we did it a number of times, & the
stop watch said otherwise.
Hasbeen
