Re: [FWDLK] Factory Horsepower Ratings
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Re: [FWDLK] Factory Horsepower Ratings



Wayne's comment is in complete agreement with what Sherwood Kahlenberg had told me/WPC Club (whatever/whenever it was mentioned)----the engineers/execs/Ross Roy/Minister of Corp Propaganda wanted to remain competitive with the industry, but they also wanted to maintain the Pecking Order, within the Corp of having the most expensive cars having the 'biggest' engines. That's probably the philosophy behind the D501 being advertised with a lower-than-Chrysler
rating,  of only  340 "gross"  horsepower.

Wayne Graefen wrote:
I think we all understand from a wide assortment of things that we have heard and read over the years, that the horsepower figures that the factories advertised for their car were at least mildly adjusted, sometimes up to be competitive in the public opinion marketplace and sometimes down to come in under insurance company limits or with acknowledgment of drag racing 'stock' horsepower to weight ratios. All these adjustments were done to gain some advantage in the market place. An eye-opener on this subject was received by me at the engineer's reunion I alluded to recently. Bob Brown, one of the Chrysler factory engineers who was directly involved with hand assembling many of the race engines (including the engine in my 300F Special in front of him that evening) stated it this way: "The advertised horsepower ratings were TOTALLY irrelevant to the figures we got off the dynamometer. They were strictly a figment of the imagination of the marketing department." That takes it to a whole 'nother level for me. Wayne

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