View Poll Results: What is more important in a drag race horse power or torque?
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Horsepower is more important then torque
2 16.67% -
Torque is more important then horsepower
6 50.00% -
Neither depends on skill of the driver
4 33.33%
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07-12-2004 09:57 PM #18
Is it possible that most of the controversy on this thread is/was caused by a typographical error when he typed 302 instead of 502 for torque? Even then 502 ft. lb. is very good torque for a 350, but possible. In my past career the people in science articles would really nail you for such an error but still typos did occur and I have made a few on this Forum myself. Still the edit feature can be used to carefully look over critical facts before final submission of a post. This guy probably really has a 502 ft. lb. 350 and that is more reasonable than a 4.6 sec 1/4 using liquid O2 in a platimum block on another thread! Hey a 10 second 1/4 mile time is pretty impressive, and even more so in a street class; maybe we should notify Ron Howard for the American Grafitti sequel with this car as the star! Just for curiosity I would ask Streets what class he ran in with that 8 flat time, was that in the wild and wooley "Altered" class of some sort? Again, in whatever class, to drive a car to a strip and run 8 flat in the quarter is TRULY amazing and we have no reason not to believe it! Still 4.6 on LOX is more than a stretch!
Don Shillady
Retired Scientist/teen rodder
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