How much power do engine mods yield?
Oh, and the most powerful slant was somewhere around 370.
Another thread, completely wrecked by fanboys...
Just for fun, I went to my favorite website that "computes" speeds and elapsed times, based on horsepower and weight, just to see what THEIR computations would contend, for a drag car that had 370 horsepower and weighed 3,170 pounds.
They believe it should run about 11.92 at 112 mph.
That assumes that the chassis has been optimized and there is no wheespin present.
The run that Ryan's car made (on the video) requires 500 horsepower to go 10.55 @ 127mph.
Ryan's car has a 727 transmission, and the excessive rotating weight (compared to a 904,) MIGHT be worth enough e.t. to have slowed his car from thr 10.55-seconds, to the 10.74 he actually turned on that run. Just guessing, but, it makes a lot of sense....
Tom Wolfe's car is a later-model Dart (1970,) so, is heavier, but with approximately the same engine specs. lets see what the Wallace program says about it's engine's output.
It goes 120 mph in 11-seconds flat, in the video. The Dart weighs 3,200 pounds, plus Tom's 170 pounds... that's 3,370.
The figures compute to 11.00-seconds and 121.77 mph for 500-horsepower, so the Wallace program apparently believes that the two engines in these two cars are virtually identical in their output.
That's 500 horsepower, each. Both run about 28 pounds of boost.
I only hope that MY engine will evenually run within one second of either of them...
If it will, I'll be a happy camper!!!:prayer::prayer::prayer:
Am I the only one here who has NO IDEA what a "fanboy" is????