[DeTomaso] Hawaii's Yogi Bear Vs Hemi-Swede Vs Dawg Vs NorwegianVikings at ORR in 2008

[Jørn C. Olsen]

MD has forgot to take his medicine again!!!!!!!
Can someone please drive by him and make sure he takes them!

J.C.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Mad Dog Antenucci" <teampantera at yahoo.com>
To: "John Taphorn" <jtaphorn at kingwoodcable.com>; <MikeLDrew at aol.com>
Cc: <detomaso at realbig.com>
Sent: Saturday, January 05, 2008 8:06 PM
Subject: [DeTomaso] Hawaii's Yogi Bear Vs Hemi-Swede Vs Dawg Vs 
NorwegianVikings at ORR in 2008


> Yeeeeeeeeea, I just woke up dreaming again where the ultimate ORR 
> competition included
>  Dennis "Warrior" Yogi's rightous Pantera going up against Hemi-Swede, and 
> the Norwegian Viking Bad Boys who are coming back again in 2008. 
> woof-woof-woof-woof
>  WOOF
>
>  Mad Dawg
>  P.S. send the dawg some Portegese donuts
>
> John Taphorn <jtaphorn at kingwoodcable.com> wrote:
>  Mike is correct. I rode in the Dennis Yogi's Hawaii 5-0 car was very
> impressed with every aspect of it. I had no idea that the early cars were
> so good. It had outstanding acceleration and the suspension operated
> quietly and the car had no rattles. It was among the nicest riding 
> Panteras
> I had the pleasure to experience. I was very impressed. The power 
> contrasts
> sharply with the later cars - no comparison.
>
> As most on the Forum are aware, Dennis owns another more aggressive 
> Pantera
> that was up on a lift parked above the 5-0 and an absolutely gorgeous
> Mangusta that he has been cleaning up. Also, among the nicer Gooses that 
> my
> eyes have been treated to. All parked in a garage attached to a house on a
> hill with a backyard porch that overlooks Pearl Harbor! If only I had
> worked a little harder...... :^)
>
> Dennis, also thanks for the sightseeing suggestions - we did find 
> Leonard's
> and the aquarium. Here, here for the Portuguese donuts.
>
> JT
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From:
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> Sent: Saturday, January 05, 2008 2:13 AM
> Subject: Re: [DeTomaso] Gearing
>
>
>>
>> In a message dated 1/4/08 13 08 0, adin at frontier.net writes:
>>
>>
>>> "A real dog" - a stock (most)Pantera is a "real dog" with performance
>>> not near the appearance.
>>>
>>>>>Actually, John Taphorn and I were just chatting about this on the phone
>> the other day. He was in Hawaii and Dennis Yogi kindly let him drive the
>> Hawaii 5-0 pushbutton, which is BONE stock. JT was shocked at how
>> incredibly fast
>> it was. The early cars with 310 hp really had performance to match their
>> appearance--this was partially due to power, and partially to gearing.
>>
>> Tom Todak's car wouldn't pull the skin off a bowl of cooling butterscotch
>> pudding. It had a low-compression 351C which was old, and tired, and
>> then he
>> put too-tall gears in the car (for that particular motor, which as I said
>> generated something like 150-180 hp at the rear wheels on a chassis 
>> dyno).
>> THAT
>> car was a real dog, no doubt about it.
>>
>> Putting a 550 hp 427 stroker in it fixed the problem entirely. :>)
>>
>>
>>> One might need to select a lower gear for
>>> the job, but the cruising (hiway, not burger king) advantages are more
>>> realistic. I'll never understand why anyone would think a cleveland
>>> should have to run @ 3500rpm in a cross country situation.
>>>
>>>>>Panteras used for highway cruising (which is to say, virtually all of
>> them) really benefit from a taller .655 or .642 fifth gear, which drops
>> 500+ rpm
>> at cruise.
>>
>> Depending on the cam profile and resultant torque curve, lower rpm 
>> doesn't
>> automatically translate to better fuel ecoomy. Years ago I read some
>> tests of
>> non-Panteras, where they discovered that if a motor didn't have enough
>> bottom-end torque, running with too-tall gears (too-low rpm) required a
>> greater
>> throttle opening to maintain cruising speed, and DECREASED fuel economy.
>> In that
>> article, one car in particular got better freeway mpg running in 4th gear
>> rather than 5th. 'Lugging' an engine is never good for economy. But I
>> agree,
>> there's no need to spin it at 3500-4000 rpm on the freeway either!
>>
>>
>>> The
>>> Cleveland is, by most standards, just a little gurly-man motor - but
>>> still has sufficient "oomph" to have reasonable gearing. By "real
>>> dog" Mike must mean it won't do wheelies.
>>>
>>>>>I could probably have kicked the crap out of Tom's old Pantera setup
>>>>>with
>> my 85 hp Scirocco. Not anymore though!!!!!
>>
>> Mike
>>
>>
>>
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>>
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