Word: tailing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...changes in the body of a standard Capri, stripped the drive train, rear axle and motor and added a Pinto transmission, a Mustang rear end and a Perkins diesel engine. The key change was putting on a turbocharger. This reroutes hot exhaust gases (which would normally escape from the tail pipe) to a paddle-wheel turbine that compresses the engine's air-fuel mixture and gives the motor a sudden burst of power...
Heavy favorites after winning the San Diego Crew Classic over fourth-placed Penn and sixth-place Navy in the season opener, the Crimson struggled against a turbulent sea, made more worrisome by a strong tail wind. According to a crew truism, such winds minimize the difference between crews...
Porter concurred, saying. "We got out pretty strong, but there was a strong tail wind and pretty big rolls so we didn't move away from Navy as fast as we wanted...
...Crimson's margin of victory was 12.5 seconds, close enough to the Yale bulge, and an even tighter match considering Yale and Penn rowed into a head wind--which is known to maximize race margins. Harvard and Penn rowed with a tail wind, which tends to shorten times between crews...
...girls we picked up were heavier and brought us closer than ever to the 125-lb. average we are supposed to be at," Peterson said. "With a tail wind like we had, being heavier is a definite advantage in the water," she said, nothing that the Williams boat was much lighter than her own crew...