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Originally Posted by Sandy309
Thank you  The delivery is every bit as important as the figures, what happens at 4-7k rpm is more important to real performance than peak power. The difference in lap times at Combe for my race engines versus mildly tuned race 106/Saxos (ie cams and remap etc), is around 6-7 seconds/minute. Also interesting to note that my guys regularly took Pole positions, against circa 500bhp turbo Leons, Tomcats, even the odd Evo on occasion. A well set up and driven NA Saxo/106 with a good engine can be very hard to beat with any real world road car.
But more than anything, I like my engines to feel exciting from the moment the key's turned, if you don't have to be flat out to enjoy it, that's alot of extra value. |
I was a little vague in my post but this is what I ment, power/torque and the graph to show whats going on inbetween
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Originally Posted by jpsaxo
Ryan - car currently weights 821kg's with half a tank of fuel. 170 / 0.821 =207bhp per ton
Carbon bonnet (10kg's) + other savings will bring it down to 800kgs or less. 225 / 0.800 = 281bhp per ton
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800kg's is quite an achievement, sorry if you've mentioned it before but what have you done more recently to reduce the weight so much?
I know you have a lot of carbon now, and the interior is ripped out. Have you ditched the PAS and ABS, removed a lot of the electrical devices?
I think when Danny weighed mine a long time ago, it was roughly 850, will be lighter in its current state now but nowhere near 800 just yet
