|
Also bear in mind that the car manufacturers out and out lied then as they do today.
GM: It's a 402? We'll still call it a 396! It's a 401? Tell the bean-counters its a 400, that will get us around the corporate ban.
Ford: Our new engine is 428 cubic inches, just like one we already have? OK, call it a 429!
All of them: we can make 400 hp and then the engine detonated on the test stand? Great! Rate them all at 400 hp
Actually, I can think of only one instance (Buick) that not only used repeatable average hp output, and under-rated hp, in an effort to get the division to sorta look the other way. Their back-door racing program was closed down just the same.
|