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Old 20-11-10, 04:58 PM
Barrie Barrie is offline
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Interesting - At the recent Bristol Celebrations, Bristol had a 411 series 6
on show and the sales man told me that it produced 600 HP and was duel fuel !
I've always learned to treat what the sales people at Bristol say cum grano salis.
Really nice people but fluent in 'estateagentese.'
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I wonder what was done to beef up the gear box and diff ? 600 HP does seem optimistic !
I don't know about the differential which seems to be able to take the strain
but the 727 Torqueflite (or 518 in my case) benefits from fitting with kevlar bands.
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