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I have always been less than keen on "correction factors" that are given as a percentage. I think thqt the parasitic loss through the gearbox, driveshaft, and rearend to be constant for a paricular combination. The amount of force required to turn those components a given disance / speed is irrespective of the power output of the motor. A particular car with a 250 hp motor may lose 20% at the rear wheels, but the same car with a 500 hp motor would only use 10% of it's power to do that work. So if the owner claimed a 20% correction factor, he would be padding his ego by 25 hp in this fictitious example.
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In a fit of 16 year old genius, I looked down through the carb while cranking it to see if fuel was flowing, and it was. Flowing straight up in a vapor cloud, around my head, on fire.
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