serious HP question
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serious HP question
I've been seeing post that are mentioning Supras developing 800+ HP to the ground. when I have heard this mentioned in the past I thought it was your basic BS. if a Supra with a 2 litter motor is getting 800+ HP to the deck why aren't vettes able to put down 1600 HP to the deck?
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There are 1000+hp Vettes on this forum if you look around.
The funny thing about the big single Supra's is how they make the hp. Look at a dynograph of a highly modded big turbo one. You'll see it hovers around 150-200hp from 0-5000rpm, then shoots straight up to a peak of incredible hp numbers at around 7k rpm, then by 8500, it's done.
The "on-off switch" syndrome commonly associated with those cars is very true, and it's largely why so few of them can run decent 1/4 mi times. It takes some incredible skill to control the car with such a narrow peaky powerband and very limited traction.
But at the same time, that instant burst of peak hp is the one reason you wouldn't want to run one from a freeway speed roll-on. That's the one environment where those cars shine.
Typical example... http://images.turbomagazine.com/feat...turbo+dyno.jpg
To me, that doesn't look like a fun car to actually drive....it looks like it was purpose built to brag about a hp #.
The funny thing about the big single Supra's is how they make the hp. Look at a dynograph of a highly modded big turbo one. You'll see it hovers around 150-200hp from 0-5000rpm, then shoots straight up to a peak of incredible hp numbers at around 7k rpm, then by 8500, it's done.
The "on-off switch" syndrome commonly associated with those cars is very true, and it's largely why so few of them can run decent 1/4 mi times. It takes some incredible skill to control the car with such a narrow peaky powerband and very limited traction.
But at the same time, that instant burst of peak hp is the one reason you wouldn't want to run one from a freeway speed roll-on. That's the one environment where those cars shine.
Typical example... http://images.turbomagazine.com/feat...turbo+dyno.jpg
To me, that doesn't look like a fun car to actually drive....it looks like it was purpose built to brag about a hp #.
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There are 1000+hp Vettes on this forum if you look around.
The funny thing about the big single Supra's is how they make the hp. Look at a dynograph of a highly modded big turbo one. You'll see it hovers around 150-200hp from 0-5000rpm, then shoots straight up to a peak of incredible hp numbers at around 7k rpm, then by 8500, it's done.
The "on-off switch" syndrome commonly associated with those cars is very true, and it's largely why so few of them can run decent 1/4 mi times. It takes some incredible skill to control the car with such a narrow peaky powerband and very limited traction.
But at the same time, that instant burst of peak hp is the one reason you wouldn't want to run one from a freeway speed roll-on. That's the one environment where those cars shine.
Typical example... http://images.turbomagazine.com/feat...turbo+dyno.jpg
To me, that doesn't look like a fun car to actually drive....it looks like it was purpose built to brag about a hp #.
The funny thing about the big single Supra's is how they make the hp. Look at a dynograph of a highly modded big turbo one. You'll see it hovers around 150-200hp from 0-5000rpm, then shoots straight up to a peak of incredible hp numbers at around 7k rpm, then by 8500, it's done.
The "on-off switch" syndrome commonly associated with those cars is very true, and it's largely why so few of them can run decent 1/4 mi times. It takes some incredible skill to control the car with such a narrow peaky powerband and very limited traction.
But at the same time, that instant burst of peak hp is the one reason you wouldn't want to run one from a freeway speed roll-on. That's the one environment where those cars shine.
Typical example... http://images.turbomagazine.com/feat...turbo+dyno.jpg
To me, that doesn't look like a fun car to actually drive....it looks like it was purpose built to brag about a hp #.
are the high HP vettes peaky too?
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As for Vettes I can speak for my ATI DS1C 346 that has a mere 700+ rwhp and is like stock under 3k and after that hold on until redline at 6800. So I will say blower Vettes do not suffer that problem and power is linear and increases as the RPMs build toward redline
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Quite a few of those Supra's that goto the track use a shot of juice to help spool up the monster Turbo
As for Vettes I can speak for my ATI DS1C 346 that has a mere 700+ rwhp and is like stock under 3k and after that hold on until redline at 6800. So I will say blower Vettes do not suffer that problem and power is linear and increases as the RPMs build toward redline
As for Vettes I can speak for my ATI DS1C 346 that has a mere 700+ rwhp and is like stock under 3k and after that hold on until redline at 6800. So I will say blower Vettes do not suffer that problem and power is linear and increases as the RPMs build toward redline
