Geeeees, That's about 87 HP if I'm calculating it correctly for that old
combination of mine. Boy if that don't make you want to throw out your old
automatic...or at least your old T-400...I don't know what would.
See what you started again Keith.
John Beckett, LSR #79, E/FCC
----- Original Message -----
From: <DrMayf@aol.com>
To: <landspeedracer@email.msn.com>; <ARDUNDOUG@aol.com>;
<land-speed@autox.team.net>
Sent: Sunday, August 27, 2000 1:14 PM
Subject: Re: Ford C-4 Tranny Gear Deliberations
> John, this is my simple way of determining HP given another hp:
>
> HP2 = HP1 (new speed^3/old speed^3)
>
> where HP2 is the new horsepower desired
> HP1 is the old horsepower needed to run at a given speed
>
> in this case HP2 = HP1 (211*211*211/200*200*200) = HP1 (1.17424)
>
> or it will take about 17.4% more horsepower.
>
> Remember HP is a function of the cube of speed.
>
> mayf
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