Okay, since things have been a little tense around here for a while I've taken it upon myself to start a fun little activity for everyone.

If you know your wheel horsepower, and the weight of your car, let's find out the power to weigt ratio of everyone's cars. Now obviously, if you use the weight with you in the car, it will make your numbers look a little less impressive, but that won't matter if everyone is consistent.

So here is an example:
Let's say you've got 350 rwhp, and your car weighs 3200 lbs, then your ratio will be 9.142. So that means that for ever 9.142 pounds your car weighs, you are using 1 horsepower to move it.

All you do is divide your weight by your horsepower, 3200/350 = 9.142.

What is your ratio? How does it compare to other people on the board? Factory cars?

 

3200/272 = 11.7647

 

Is that with you in the car or not? I find that my car weighs less than factory says that it weighed when I took it to the track.

 

With me in the car on average. I have gotten it to 3150 (class rules allow me 3150) with me in it, but usually leave some weight in the trunk for traction reasons!

 

Come on people, I know other people have dynos of their cars. I didn't even post anything about my car to keep it on topic.

 

too bad i dont know my HP and weight of my car. I weigh 134 pounds and the camaro prob weighs 3400 or 3500 is my guess. Well i have a TPI airfoil and Catback how much hp will that produce on a 350 L98 245hp?

 

250

 

I think I did this wrong. Since it's power to weight, you have to divide your power by your weight, then, the closer you are to 1.0 the better.

 

Ok,

272/3200 = 0.085

 

3360 lbs (with me) / 230 rwhp = 14.6 lbs/hp

 

My guess is similar to nic's
89 Iroc with AC weighs about 3400lbs i guess
my mods gets me 275 on crank I guess (Feel free to make guesses to this as well)

So taking 20% loss thru the driveline, lets see thats....

3400/220 or so which = a hefty 15.45 lbs/hp

Humm, i need some more mods.

 

thats it?! Cat back makes 5 hp?

 

Probably closer to 10, the point I was making is that the airfoil isn't gonna do much for ya.

 

Yeah the Airfoil is pointless, It claimed 14 additional hp

 

Thats 250 fwhp, probably 210-215 rwhp!

 

i herd a some L98s hit easy 210rwhp

stock

 

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Stu...

Registered: Aug 2004
Posts: 281

Should I call you the Soapy of TGO?

And the world wants to know.. was it Cocoa Puffs or Kixs?

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Ok, did that get rid of some of the 'tension'?

 

lol I thought it was .....r1ce....... crispys ha ha

 

i am the only soapy allowed on any board

 

Bwahahahahahaha!!!!!!!



Where are the smilies at?!? Quick!! Hide 'em!!

 

If I could get this one to come up on it's own I could have some more fun.

 

where's the damn finger smilie over here???

 

?

 

They said no to it for some reason. But if you're not blonde, you could do this:

 

Man the Street Boards are a mess