Flat out in the water is 3300 RPM (You have to sit in the back or water
comes over the hood and slows you down before max revs are reached) On the
road you get power up to about 5200 RPM (somewhere over 70mph depending on
your tire size) at that speed the limiting factor is valve bounce - the
inlet valve springs don't have enough time to shut and take the next gulp of
air so the engine is strangled. The engine can be tuned with Spitfire parts
so it can reach 6000 RPM (or even more) but you need a different cam that
then doesn't run as well at low revs (Explains the trend in modern cars to
variable valve timing).

At least one manufacturer in the 1960s produced an aftermarket rev counter
(probably for a VW) that is the same size and fits the same way as the Amphi
clock, it has a similar layout to Amphi speedo so doesn't look odd and is
much more usefull !

One other recently discovered fact, the cars with the lip at the bottom of
the bodywork (normally but not always post 1966) are lighter than the
earlier cars, this is because the panels with the lip are made of slightly
thinner steel, this means that with everything else equal (unlikely) the
later cars will be slightly quicker on land and water.


David Chapman in the UK



> here screaming like they do on the road. Will someone out there with a
tach
> please tell me how many rpm's an average stock Amphi will be turning flat
out




        
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