Wheres that old article of that guy with the 9 sec. Camaro LT1?
Those hp calculations from the Wallace calculator are pretty far off.
Here's the result from the one I've used for years. It has always correlated very well with my trap speeds/weight and dyno pulls with locked or efficient converters:
Approximate Horsepower Results
"Your car weighs 2980 pounds and can complete the 1/4 mile at 135 MPH. That means that you've got about 594.8 HP at the flywheel, and about 487.7 HP at the wheels."
You can see it assumes an efficient auto trans driveline, 18% loss. His looser converter will of course dyno less.
Here's the result from the one I've used for years. It has always correlated very well with my trap speeds/weight and dyno pulls with locked or efficient converters:
Approximate Horsepower Results
"Your car weighs 2980 pounds and can complete the 1/4 mile at 135 MPH. That means that you've got about 594.8 HP at the flywheel, and about 487.7 HP at the wheels."
You can see it assumes an efficient auto trans driveline, 18% loss. His looser converter will of course dyno less.
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Him and Tim Teal, along with a few others made that kills forum very entertaining for a while.
Knowing George (who put together that cherrybomb site), that one is based on pure math & physics, not empirical information.
