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04-06-2007, 05:30 PM
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Join Date: Aug 2000
Location: Austin, Texas, USA,
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Cobra Make, Engine: FFR1358 (Sold)
Posts: 1,643
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Talk about speed!
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Last edited by Ed Csoltko; 04-06-2007 at 05:34 PM..
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04-06-2007, 11:44 PM
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Join Date: Nov 2006
Location: Reedsport, OR,
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Cobra Make, Engine: Old ('93)CMC kit, SB ford
Posts: 68
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Now that's fast!
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04-07-2007, 01:55 AM
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Specs are something like voltage increased from 24,000 to 32,000 volts. One puller and one pusher engine. Total h.p. 25,000. It's a BIG block!  |
04-07-2007, 05:15 AM
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Join Date: Aug 2006
Location: Charlotte,
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I was on one of the really fast trains from Paris to London about 3 years ago, I don't think it was that one as I was told we were going 300Km an hour. It was amazing at first, but you get very used to the speed. Its just hard to see anything as it goes by so quickly...wonder why we don't have them in the states?
James
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04-07-2007, 06:34 AM
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Join Date: May 2003
Cobra Make, Engine: A Cobra
Posts: 11,207
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Ernie, that's not a big block,
IT'S A BIG BLOCK!
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04-08-2007, 07:27 AM
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Join Date: Feb 2006
Location: Bryan,
TX
Cobra Make, Engine: SOLD Excalibur, '94-'95 5.0 EFI, Edelbrock heads, E303 cam, 1.7RR, Cobra intake, 24lb injectors, 93 cobra ECU, 65mm TB, hi flow cats.
Posts: 274
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Why not here?
Highly subsidized ($billions) by their governments  Gasoline $6 a gallon or more  We use trains for freight, they use them for people based on population density and distance between population centers. Rights of way are pretty much defined and limited. We are cowboys and like our own horse power and they are so urbane (as in urban cowboy) and like being herded, especially if they think somebody else is paying for it |
04-08-2007, 07:35 AM
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Join Date: Aug 2006
Cobra Make, Engine: Ex CSX3327, & AK7113 AutoKraft AC MK IV
Posts: 458
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The is the "someone else paying for it" is the government.....the folks with the money machine that never costs you a franc.
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04-08-2007, 02:52 PM
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Join Date: Sep 2002
Location: Round Rock, TX,
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If we tried it here in the US, the gvt would award it to Amtrack. Can you imagine that group attempting to manage these trains!
Claudia and I rode the Euro-Star about 10 yrs ago. In England it was slow yet very smooth. Once in France they turned on the power and we were got up to 187MPH. Very slow compared to this train but still you cound not focus on anything closer than about a 1/2 mile.
Almost makes me want to go back for a little train ride.
James
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