Originally posted by cfcsvt:
This all goes back to the beginning of the post. HP/L is only relevent to N/A not to any type of F/I. If you took a 10 sec. small displacement motor and a 10sec. big displacement motor and ran a 6 month daily driver test or any other endurance type test and the results would be in favor of the larger displacement motor. You cannot get reliability out of a small displacement motor that is N/A netting power of 10sec. proportions. The only way to have a streetable 10 sec. small displacement motor is to have F/I. Anytime you don't NEED the power you can turn the knob down or button which ever you prefer (Boost Controller). At that point you could drive around w/ half of your max power so that you won't run into your problems. (maybe not half but you should be able to make sense of what I am saying).



N/A : Naturally Aspirated (IE: Not supercharged or Turbocharged)
F/I : Fuel Injected (Can be Port Injected, Throttle Body Injected, All injectors fire at same time or Sequetial firing of injectors.

My Contour is N/A and F/I

N/A and F/I are not mutually exclusive.

Did you mean S/C : SuperCharged or T/C : Turbocharged?

FWIW Honda S2000 is N/A and makes 120 HP/L. So N/A can be made High Performance.

The only number that might be an indicator of performance is lbs/hp. A 200 HP car that weighs 2500 Lbs. (12.5 lbs/Hp)is faster (acceleration) than a 300 Hp car weighing 4000 lbs (13.3 lbs/hp) all other things being equal. In addition, frontal area and Cd determine top speed more than HP. Since it takes 4 times the HP to go twice as fast, a smaller car (size, not weight) can go faster with less HP than a larger, similar car.

Since hp/lb, Cd, frontal area and rolling resistance are the items that determmine performance (for the most part, I am leaving out suspension qualities and handling issues), The car with the least Cd and Frontal area with the most Hp/Lb is always the fastest, regardless of American or Imported.

Since all the above posts generalilzed, I felt free to do the same.

My name is Richard. I was a Contouraholic. NOW: '02 Mazda B3000 Dual Sport, Black BEFORE: '99 Contour SE Sport Duratec ATX Spruce Green PIAA 510's, Foglight MOD, K&N Drop-in