[VintageLambo] Re: Miura Power Specs

I think they wrote about Bob Wallace"s Miura Jota which was said to have 430 bhp and of course a highly tuned engine. I can"t imagine a car with 308 deg. cam is drivable on raod use... Raymond --- In VintageLambo@yahoogroups.com, wspohn4@a... wrote: > > I was looking at a road test of the Miura in C&D, and they quoted a high > output (430 bhp instead of 350) which is par for the course with American > mags converting DIN power ratings. > > They also said that the cam timing was 308 deg. intake and 284 exhaust. Now > this didn"t strike me as correct - I looked at my Islero stuff and it cites > 288 intake and 276 exhaust. > > Now those figures could be wrong and apply to the earlier Islero with lower > compression engine, rather than the S engine, which I understood to be > identical output to the first Miuras, or OTOH, the figures in C&D could be > "exaggerated" for the magazine, or a special pre-production spec or > something. Anyone know for sure? > > One thing that makes me wonder about the specs I have, dated November 1969, > is that they say my car should have DCOE 20-21 carbs, and as we discussed > previously, it has DCOE 22-23. Whenever you look at anything from the factory > on the S, you have to wonder if they just ran the non-S stuff through the > photocopier - heck, they didn"t even bother changing the redline on the > tachometer (maybe they"d ordered a couple of hundred instruments or > something). > > Can anyone confirm that the 350 bhp engine came with one or the other of > those cam specs (ie, which one)? > > > Bill