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Ev Archive for October 1998
1332 messages, last added Wed Aug 08 18:43:21 2001

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Re: AC vs. DC



> Royce,
> I saw your car pull in, and a fine looking Mazda it is. Did you get a chance
> to run it? If so, what kind of times were reported by the sophisticated, state
> of the art timing  device? ;-) Seriously, what kind of performance are you
> guys seeing? Regards David Chapman.
> 

hehe, well I was only there on saturday, so I missed the real competition..
there is a videotape of it that I haven't seen yet, but apparently we beat
the red porsche by a very small amount in the acelleration contest, dunno
if it was 1/4 or 1/8 mile. The porsche is 144v and so is our RX7, and
they have comparable motors, so obviously DC motors don't HAVE to have
transmissions :) 

Royce Chow  KF6PEO
rufus@infosite.com


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