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> Your car has 150hp.  Probably 135hp at the wheels.  The car weighs
> 2780lbs (including a 150lb person).  Best case rough approximation
> of the ET your car could get in the 1/4mi is 15.97s.
> 
> Check out http://www2.dsm.org/tools/calchp.htm

what about torque and the cars aerodynamics?  don't those play a part? 
I mean if you had a car with those specs but was a box shape its
obviuosly going to be a lot slower.

 
> Believe me, a drive in a 12 second car or even a 13 second car
> feels like a rocket compared to a 15 second car.  You would need
> to double your hp to go 13s in the 1/4mi.
> 
> > > Believe me, it isn't very easy to knock 3 seconds off your 1/4mi time.
> > > And to do it in a full-weight car is even less common.
> > >
> > > And yea, John Force may be fast.  But he is paid to be fast and uses
> > > a car who's engine is designed to be torn down after every race.  Go
> > > figure that he is 9 seconds faster than most of us.
> >
> >   i guess...but my friends blown 40' ford could do it pretty fast too I
> > bet...and it didn't cost him too much.
> 
> Not sure what your point was here.  Anyway, a Viper is a 12.something
> second car.  So is a Lotus Elise.  They just do it in different ways.
> DSMs prefer to do it the turbocharged way, which turns out to be a
> pretty good way at making a small displacement engine output big hp :-)
> 
> Josh Wingell
> '97 Eclipse GSX
> 


oh my point was that his car costs nowhere near these new little cars
but could probably smoke alot of them.

i guess given modern advances in technology anythings possible...but I
just like the brute force and muscle of the bigger cars.  To me they are
truly fast.

-bryan