robincooper

Wow, it is high enough.

Unless it is a MKIII Supra. Beware the 7M GTE

You need to add the price of the car to this figure.

Love the look of that intake collector!

$7500 ish

Black R35 parked across from the Harp Hotel, Wollongong.

Try riding a 2 stroke trail bike on the road. Goddamn! I get routinely screamed at, its freaking awesome!

I love this instinctive loathing of Commodore drivers. I just love it. It makes me want to bring a VP with chopped springs to the next Wakey track day.

Boom!

Anyway, I will leave you with the history of the boost. As far as horses making 1.5 HP it is very possible. I mean we all know horses have power-bands, like any engine. You know how when you ride a horse and when you squeeze your boots into it and it goes from a trot to a canter to a sprint and you feel the increase in torque, they called that the "boots" but somewhere along the line it was misread as "boost", so the term boost that we all know so well actually comes from the good old days when we all used horses to get around.

That was borrowed from the LULZ thread I believe. The Kings Speech.

I don't know.

Who? Wetheringtons? The first Wetheringtons was a mobile service that went around to all the goldfields in Victoria so the miners could have their horses dynoed before they bought/sold a horse. The guy who had the mobile service, Arthur Wetherington later set up a workshop in Bendigo which was a great success. The business model was then franchised out to different people and I believe for a short while there was a Wetheringtons franchise in Perth.

Did you like the explanation of the history of the word boost. I thought it was pretty good. As far as a generous dyno goes the weight of the rope is a constant. Dynos have to use the same grade rope. There will be some differences in the weight between the rope, the two main rope manufacturers of the day sourced their twine from different sides of the country, and there was some density difference, but this was so small that the weight difference is negligible compared to the weight of the mass. That is not to say that generous dyno's didn't exist, because they did. When the horse did a "pull" on the dyno there was a person who had to count the revolutions of the sheave in a 30 second period if this guy got the count wrong by a rev or two that could put out the actual HP reading, Wetheringtons Horse Dyno Service was notorious for this as they used to employ the cheapest dyno operators who usually had trouble counting, giving a false reading.

I think both Elite Racing and R31Nismoid deserve a little more respect. Their abilities and motives aren't in question here.

R31>VL

I didn't specify, just saying that there were no tanks in the Civil War re enactments that I take part in. As far as horses making 1.5 HP it is very possible. I mean we all know horses have power-bands, like any engine. You know how when you ride a horse and when you squeeze your boots into it and it goes from a trot to a canter to a sprint and you feel the increase in torque, they called that the "boots" but somewhere along the line it was misread as "boost", so the term boost that we all know so well actually comes from the good old days when we all used horses to get around. Anyway, back to the HP discussion. Unlike today, when you had your horse dynoed (attached to a rope which went through a sheave 90 degrees to a load hanging vertical) they used an average power figure as opposed to a peak power figure we use today. So to say a horse has 1 HP is just an average figure, in fact many horses had anywhere up to 1.8HP peak power.

No tanks in the 1860's

So Factory N/A+Turbo=Non turbo.... Lol, anyway. I have a civil war re enactment to get ready for.

Your mates 380HP N/A monster isn't..... Buddy.

That's fine.