I don't know anyone with 4 digit HP numbers... 1000+ HP on the street is pretty useless, It's more about bragging rights than anything. I hope your buddies are planning big braking power and some suspension/chassis work as well...
I just want 400 HP to the ground and still be able to drive my car on a 5 - 7 hour trip to visit my family
2. If I drive it that long, I'm definitely going to stop at gas stations more than once.
Will you feel foolish with a 1000hp engine under your hood when a 400 hp car in the next lane wins the race time and again because you can not make your ride hook up?
cliffnotes?If you have the money to build a 1000 horse car, you have the money to make it hook. 1000hp is far from too much to hook
Outlaw cars make anywhere from 1200-1800hp and they hook like hell.
Top fuel dragsters make 8000hp and they hook
and everything in between. Sure you throw 1000hp in a stock car (assuming it will even hold together, which it wont) and throw a 300hp motor in the same car. The 300hp car (IMO) will win everytime. You cant just build a motor and forget about everything else. 1000hp is very managable power if done correctly. Turbo cars are a great example. You can make 800-900hp and have no problems taking a trip to walmart with the lady. People do it every day. If you have the check book to support it, it can be and has been done. These guys with pipe dreams of driving their 1000hp cars to autozone car meets are, for the most part, doing just that. Dreaming. And if they arent smart enough to realize theres more to it than that, then they have no business behind the wheel of something like that anyways. As for track prep, most guys at tracks that suck arent putting down that kind of power. I know thats a generalization, but for the most part its true. Another point being, if youve put all the blood and sweat into a 1000hp car, take the time to take it somewhere worth racing at. If your track is a glorified parking lot then id be willing to drive the extra distance to go somewhere with a properly prepped track and not risk wasting good tires or putting my race car into a wall (or guard rail for most of those tracks) Id hate to see the race techs at a crappy track inspecting someones 1000hp car anyways. Point being, theres no such thing as excessive power, but there plenty of inadequate drivers.
I have a friend with a 1000+hp turbo ls2 SS camaro and it hooks. In 3rd gear. he likes to roll race starting at 75mph.... I keep telling him I'm gonna get him in the 1/8th. Hence the SS eater screen name!
If you have the money to build a 1000 horse car, you have the money to make it hook. 1000hp is far from too much to hook
Outlaw cars make anywhere from 1200-1800hp and they hook like hell.
Top fuel dragsters make 8000hp and they hook
and everything in between. Sure you throw 1000hp in a stock car (assuming it will even hold together, which it wont) and throw a 300hp motor in the same car. The 300hp car (IMO) will win everytime. You cant just build a motor and forget about everything else. 1000hp is very managable power if done correctly. Turbo cars are a great example. You can make 800-900hp and have no problems taking a trip to walmart with the lady. People do it every day. If you have the check book to support it, it can be and has been done. These guys with pipe dreams of driving their 1000hp cars to autozone car meets are, for the most part, doing just that. Dreaming. And if they arent smart enough to realize theres more to it than that, then they have no business behind the wheel of something like that anyways. As for track prep, most guys at tracks that suck arent putting down that kind of power. I know thats a generalization, but for the most part its true. Another point being, if youve put all the blood and sweat into a 1000hp car, take the time to take it somewhere worth racing at. If your track is a glorified parking lot then id be willing to drive the extra distance to go somewhere with a properly prepped track and not risk wasting good tires or putting my race car into a wall (or guard rail for most of those tracks) Id hate to see the race techs at a crappy track inspecting someones 1000hp car anyways. Point being, theres no such thing as excessive power, but there plenty of inadequate drivers.
You nay sayers about high HP are forgetting that the throttle isn't an on/off switch....you don't have to use 1000hp the instant you come off the line. What it takes is car control, a dialed in chassis and the right tires. There's no reason a 400hp car is absolutely going to beat a 1000hp car out of the hole just because he "can hook easier". Don't blame HP for not hooking, blame the driver.
If you have the money to build a 1000 horse car, you have the money to make it hook. 1000hp is far from too much to hook
Outlaw cars make anywhere from 1200-1800hp and they hook like hell.
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Outlaw cars make around 3500 to 4000 HP these days... even the outlaw drag radial cars are making that much, trapping 190 mph in the eight mile.
Proline racing is dominating that whole scene what it comes down to is power management, and getting the chassis right. Which are both obvious things to anyone building a motor of this caliber.
A 300 hp car isnt going to hang with a 1000hp car even if there was a 75mph tailwind somhow miraculously only in the 300hp cars lane...
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