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To: Dennis R. Duke who wrote (1447)	2/12/1998 2:10:00 PM
From: (Bob) Zumbrunnen	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 6464

Actually, it's not as flat out here as one might think. On I-70 between KC and Topeka there are flat stretches, but also plenty of uphill and downhill runs. At the time, the car did have the 2.73 rear-end. And, yes, the engine was barely ticking over @ 60mph. 5th gear was only useful for the highway. Enough torque to keep 'er rolling, and not much more. Perfect for economy. For track use, I've got a 3.55 rear-end. Never have calculated my track MPG, but a rough guess would be 6-7 mpg, based on about 200 miles per weekend and 6 not-quite-full 5-gallon fuel containers. That's on Heartland Park's (Topeka) 2.5 mile road course. As with any road course, 75% of the time is spent either all the way on the power or all the way on the brakes. Actually, everybody good-naturedly hates me at HPT. I know the track extremely well, and know my car even better, faults and all. These are "Driving Schools" I'm going to all the time and even though I'm in the advanced group, and the only person without chassis reinforcement or a rollcage in that group, I run toward the head of the pack. I'd love to see SCCA "Economy" classifications, segregated into electrics, fuel-only, and hybrids. That would go a long way in development of the next generation of vehicles. And might finally make people aware of the fact than electric motors are actually superior to equivalent gas engines in low-speed launches. And low-slung battery packs sure couldn't hurt handling too much. In the case of fuel-only classifications, that could be further segregated by fuel type, and limit, dramatically, the amount of fuel a car can carry. Say a 1-gallon fuel cell and a specific length and ID fuel line. Oh, one more thing about running a GT for economy. The bodywork on it actually works (allowing me to smoke LXs in a left-sweeper at HPT I can take at 85 MPH; much faster if the suspension were up to it), but it does so at the cost of drag. It's for that reason that GT's used for top-speed runs have very stiff suspensions. The aerodynamics at 150+ mph actually push down on the car so hard it starts scraping the ground. That kind of downforce is not very MPG-friendly. 350HP out of a NA Cobra? Apparently a number of other mods, eh? Nitrous?