Cold, wintery, so I'm sitting here thinking of just how easy, or hard this is.....
So does science always win??? :realcrazy: The answer is yes. If science is based off of facts, but too often it's mixed with assumptions left from unknown details (which is really not science then).
So this is really pretty easy. I mean selecting a E.T. and knowing what it takes to get there. Except the X factor, which is all the "unknowns" about a true street car.
example:
So, a car weighing 3400 lbs w/driver, per say, needs about 8.3 additional horse power to gain 1 mph. That's just a mere 41.5 hp gain to add 5 mph, for illustration. Easy enough if starting with a basically stock engine. Now a 5 mph addition at the big end is great, no matter what your previous speed was. For instance, my 318 Duster ran 94.8 mph. An additional 5 mph would be 99.8. That gives for a 13.22 E.T. "IF" the car 60 fts to "bracket car" expectations.
Now I could spit in the wind and add 50 hp to either car, adding about 6 mph. That 6 mph give the 360 Duster 12.60's potential, and the 318 Duster 13 flat potential...……… but getting the "X" factor figured out is the hardest. That science is just hard to obtain :BangHead: