so you dint watch the video, why an i not surprised... yes, it IS free HP, it doesn't say it doesn't cost money
Posted on 11/05/2017 6:07:31 PM PST by MtnClimber
Casual timing looked like 0-60 in about 14 seconds.
The fastest I ever went was 156 and at night it looked like the white dashed lines were coming up over the hood (note how they start to blur at that general speed in the video and picture it in the dark with headlights on them). Would love a car that could do it but these days I’d just be wasting a lot of power....older you get the more sense you get and the more sense you get the longer you tend to live...
The sense of speed depends on what you’re driving and even more so on the road. Like a Maserati in the New Mexico desert is smooth as silk. But much more excitimg was going 130 in my 1967 Morgan Plus 4 with the windshield off on a Michigan road. Very scary.
ML/NJ
.........no less a figure than A.J.Foyt once told a friend of mine that “hey, I’ve spent a lot of time going fast and 250 mph is common but I’m here to tell you that even in your personal car driving down the road at 85mph if something goes wrong your most likely toast”.
That’s pretty fast, My friend builds Race Cars and Motors, he recently did a New Camaro that did 277 MPH in a Standing Mile, and was trying to build a faster one, . I will ask what ever happened to it, it wasn’t at his shop last week when I was there??.
http://nelsonracingengines.com/~nelsonracing/
http://nelsonracingengines.com/~nelsonracing/videos/on-the-dyno/NRE-2010-Camaro-Dyno.html
LOL no kidding.
The fastest I’ve ever gone is 147mph in a 91 Eclipse GTX (modded, of course)...backed off when the front end started floating. My ex-wife waking up and screaming at me helped lol. I sold it shortly thereafter.
278 is INSANE.
Mostly has to do with piston speed.
The only way of moving beyond 175-200 mph is add more cylinders.
Boost is the answer instead of adding more pistons
“When I was young and stupid I did 120 in a Ford Escort.”
120 in a car with a theoretical top speed of 100????????????????
“Is that legal? “
Read the article.
Well - it was a fairly long downhill - paved country road. Like I said young and stupid in my little 4 cylinder.
“compressed air free horsepower”
Nothing is free!
“But much more excitimg was going 130 in my 1967 Morgan Plus 4 with the windshield off on a Michigan road. “
Which had the same engine as a TR4 which had a theoretical top speed of 110 ...
But the Morgan’s frame was wood which gives it an advantage so long as it’s inspected regularly by Orkin or Terminex.
so you dint watch the video, why an i not surprised... yes, it IS free HP, it doesn't say it doesn't cost money
I watched the video. No free hp.
it's free in there is no loss from any tax on the motor as a super/turbo charger has, so how is it NOT free?
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