bored, uh yeah! although the weather's been nice enough to drive our toy
cars around. :)
my dad actually has a graph showing his various cars, boats, trucks,
tractors, and motorcycles. its very complicated and no one quite
understands it but him. i just noted this doubling trend ive had. its
because i cant tell the difference between cars unless they are REALLY
different. +- 100hp its hard to tell. all these things are hella dangerous
fast now.
james "experiencing slip-angle withdrawal" creasy
----- Original Message -----
From: Michael R. Clements <mrc01@flash.net>
To: James Creasy <black94pgt@pacbell.net>
Cc: Scot Zediker <roadsterboy@earthlink.net>; <ba-autox@autox.team.net>
Sent: Wednesday, December 20, 2000 2:09 PM
Subject: Re: How many cylinders do you have?
> James Creasy wrote:
> >
> > for each of the four cars that i have driven primarily, i have doubled
the
> > power to weight ratio:
> >
> > 2800/60 = 46 lbs/ hp - 76 chevette 0-60 in 18 seconds
> > 3100/95 = 33 lbs/ hp - 80 celica 0-60 in 12 seconds
> > 2800/166 = 17 lbs/hp - 94 probe 0-60 in 7.2 seconds
> > 2100/250 = 8.4 lbs/ hp - cobra 0-60 in 4.8 seconds
> >
> > each of them seemed fast at the time :)
>
> Looks like my vehicle power to weight ratio is also improving:
>
> 2400 / 70 = 34 lbs/hp - '90 honda civic, 0-60 in about 16 seconds
> 2800 / 275 = 10.2 lbs/hp - '95 RX-7, 0-60 in 4.83 seconds
> 540 (+ 170) / 90 = 7.9 lbs/hp - '99 Honda Magna, 0-60 in 4.5
> seconds
> 2450 / 320 = 7.6 lbs/hp - '99 Panoz, 0-60 in 4.1 seconds
>
> Why are we sitting around calculating all these silly numbers? We
> must be really bored. . .
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