View Poll Results: How do you figure your HP
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I have had my engine/car on a dyno
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Saw dyno sheet on an "identical" engine
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I use the factory HP rating
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added up the HP of the parts I put on it
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I pulled it out of my computer
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I pulled it out of my A##
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Don't know, don't care it runs.
3 30.00%
Thread: HP Numbers
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10-22-2003 06:24 AM #1
Some real good points, Mike. All the horsepower in the world doesn't matter if ya can't hook it up. Engine dyno numbers are a good way to check yourself and your ideas, but chassis dyno's are probably more relevant to "real world" applications. I take the poor man's way out and check mine with 0-60 times or et slips. The hp numbers take a distant second to the way the whole car reacts when the horsepower is applied. Most horsepower numbers bantered about are nothing more than a WAG anyway, just one more thing to chuckle about with the guys at coffee time!!!Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, Live for Today!
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