Thanks to all who replied. I guess with my engine finished I have too much
time on my brain.
I was idly curious as to the cost / benefit ratio of effort and money to
raise my TR's hp more than it is. I know that the speed / hp thing doesn't
give the complete answer, because you would get to speed quicker, so I'd
need to model a track and use calculus to get the area under the curve --
heck, I had a hard enough time with that years ago in engineering school.
If I can't remember the speed vs hp stuff, I probably can't even remember
how to make an integral sign.
At 11:54 AM 8/10/2004, you wrote:
> > Jack, I believe that both aero drag and rolling resistance change as the
> > square of speed,
>
>Aero drag increases as a square (roughly), generally rolling resistance does
>not but it's small enough to ignore, especially for small changes near top
>speed.
>
> > so for a given percentage increase in speed you need the
> > square of that percentage increase in power.
>
>Not quite, power is force (drag) times speed, so power winds up being the
>cube of speed.
>
>Randall
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