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Old 01-16-2015, 06:04 PM   #81 (permalink)
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I put a 0.045" cutting disc on my angle grinder, and started correcting the FC crossmember.
FC crossmember? I assume this is out of the donor car that the engine came out of. Did I miss this in an earlier post? What was the donor? Very cool project.

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The power needed to push an object through a fluid increases as the cube of the velocity. Mechanical friction increases as the square, so increasing speed requires progressively more power.
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