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Originally posted by warmonger:
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Originally posted by Sandman333:
[b]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.

warmonger[/b]
Nope, wrong, as the power curves are entirely different. Horespower isn't even directly measured, it is calculated from torque. Your 200 HP SVT engine may be near equal to a stock 5.0L HO in HP, but it has no where near the low - mid RPM torque. Thus, the max horsepower levels can be the same, but that is only one tiny measure of total perfomance. What you really need to look at is the area under the torque curve. The car with the fatter torque curve (in the case of the Cobra, much fatter) will win. The Cobra's torque curve is large enough to overcome the weight difference.

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