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Old 03-09-2008, 05:05 PM
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Originally Posted by RacingManiac View Post
I doubt keeping the car carburated makes it any cheaper.....it is not cheap to make a 6 liter pushrod small block to rev over 10k and makes 800+bhp....the amount of testing required to tune those things are probably just as expensive as an F1 motor....which is the reason why there tend to be only a few teams that makes their own engine and everyone else buys it from them....
There's less money going into developing a carborated engine, no electronics to control or change like a EFI setup, it's all mechanical.
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