Shoestring, I take those points on-board and agree there's almost always room for improvement with chassis and driver at any given circuit.
However, in my experience winners in this sort of single seater (in dry conditions in a competitive series) normally have an engine at or close to the maximum possible under the rules and at least very close to the power of their main rivals.
I was just trying to find out what sort of range we are talking about if, say 106 was "average" and you put the famous 'Patch' on the same dyno what sort of figure would you expect? Or perhaps it's not outright power at all but more torque lower down? Just trying to get a handle on it that's all.
It may well be that nobody knows why one Kent engine turns out better than another. It just happens.
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