Originally posted by Sandman333:
And you are forgetting that those cars have the torque advantage (even after turboing the SVT) to more than make up for that added weight.
Sorry, but HP and torque are directly proportional to each other. You can't have one without the other. If the contour is making as much power as the vette, you might ask yourself 'at what rpm' is it making that power at? For a small motor to make the same horsepower as a vette engine, either the torque numbers must be the same or the HP was measured at different RPM's. The math doesn't lie, look at the formula that relates HP and torque and you will see that you can/must change either one or the other in order to change the HP produced.
By comparison, what would happen if you pit an indy car against a corvette in some kind of race? Say two miles straight line. I would be my money on an indy car. Before they begain regulating the HP on those cars, an indy car could have 1500 hp. Honda had a 1.5L turbo engine with something close to that in the late 80's. It was done with a shiit-load of boost on an engine that spun 12000+ rpm.
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