Horsepower: When is it meaningless?

HP is meaningless when it can't be put to the ground

Power
to
Weight

>>17639010
You don´t need much power to be fast if you can keep your speed in the corners.

As you can see on your picture, they tend to have downforce and weight reduction autismo.
A better downforce/weight ratio allows you to corner faster.
A smaller engine weights less, so it allows your car to corner faster.

>>17639010
There are way too many variables in a time attack for horsepower to be a deciding factor

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Love the variety

>>17639053

exactly this

tires only have so much longitudinal/lateral grip. once that grip is exceeded, you're wasting power or time

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800hp seems to be the sweet spot

>>17639080
This.


Seriously OP. You cant be this retarded.

Next you are gonna tell me that big diesel trucks are going 300 kmh because they have over 700 hp?

>>17639142
When you just can't wait to see your bf

Buddy of mine has a C5 Corvette Z06 with a few mods. He took it to a track day.

An old civic was there. It looked ratty, but it had a swap, great brakes, meaty tires, awesome suspension, and stripped interior with a roll cage. Pretty much built for track days.

The civic beats the shit out of his corvette. I was kind of shocked, actually, but it made sense. The civic was just setup right.

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>>17639198
The heaviest time attack cars aren't that far off from the lightest

>>17639407
slow piece of shit...i can smoke the fuck out of this in my 1994 EG hatch with a couple of simple mods:

- 10 point cage with Parachute
- 3 piece discontinued JoJo frontend
- spec-R full drag suspension
- Fuel cell with -8 lines from tank to motor
- 1 044 bosch pump
- 1200 rc injectors
- golden eagle sleeved block
- cp 10:1 pistons
- Eagle rods
- arp headstuds
- oem h22 headgasket
- Balance shaft delete
- competition clutch twin disc
- Port and polished head
- skunk2 valve springs and retainers
- Str cam gears
- crower stage 1 cams
- aluminium radiator with slim fan
- gsr transmission with itr lsd.
- qsd h2k intake manifold adapter
- k20 rbc manifold
- qsd throttle body spacer
- blox 70mm throttle body
- 4bar omni map sensor
- 6al msd with coil and cap. 3 step launch control
- hks bov
- Garret 102mm turbocharger.
- Custom t4 front facing turbo manifold with 44mm flange
- 44mm tial wastegate
- Custom water to air intercooler set up
- aem eugo wideband w/ gauge
- tuned on chipped p28
- 13 inch volks drag rims
- 2 15 inch volks rear rims
- arp extended wheel studs
- si cluster
- 150 shots of nitrous

im making 248 horsepower to the FRONT WHEELS because thats the only place the power should ever be.

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This thing has 300 hp and could whoop the ass of whatever over powered pieces of garbage /o/ managed to put together.

Yeah, even the one fag with the Gallardo. Yes, even the one fag with the Ferrari 599 GTO.

Its all about suspension setups, confidence in your tyres and predictable handling. And light weight.

>>17639417
>- arp extended wheel studs
The madness.

>>17639432
>opel Manta B
That car is pretty good, even in stock form, but it has a weirtd SOHC-pushrod cylinder head...

>>17639432
[fox tail intensifies]

>>17639417
I know it's a pasta but it never fails to amaze me

>250 hp with turbo and a built engine
That should be at least 350 hp

>>17639477
gotta keep that fuel ratio lean to get 70 MPG while doing 9 seconds in the dragstrip, yo!

>>17639477
The original instance of that pasta said "348 horsepower". Not sure why it went down to 248.

http://archive.4plebs.org/o/thread/11176487/#11176573

And this is the earliest instance of 248 HP variant of the pasta.

http://archive.4plebs.org/o/thread/14154392/#14154430

>>17639447
>it has a weirtd SOHC-pushrod cylinder head
>OHC-pushrod
someone is going to have to explain how this works.

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>>17640982
>cross flow head
>cam next to burning chamber in cylinder head
>pushes tappets
>tappets push rocker arms
>rocker arms act valves

It is basicly the worst of bost worlds...