[Shotimes] How to get 300HP from your 3.0L SHO engine

[Ron Porter]

I wrote this, and it was put on the SHOtimes FAQ back in he '90s when some
of you were still in diapers!!  ;-)

http://tinyurl.com/2p9bm

As Mark mentions, this is why HP numbers don't mean much.....HP is purely a
mathematical calculation. Torque is what it's all about.

Ron Porter

-----Original Message-----
From: shotimes-admin@autox.team.net [mailto:shotimes-admin@autox.team.net]
On Behalf Of Mark Nunnally
Sent: Thursday, October 21, 2004 2:01 PM
To: shotimes@autox.team.net
Subject: Re: [Shotimes] How to get 300HP from your 3.0L SHO engine


> To put this all in perspective, an F1 engine has 3.0L displacement, albeit
> via 10 cylinders, is normally aspirated, and makes 1000HP.

BUT....:)....does not make much more torque than the SHO, or any high
performance n/a 3.0L engine.

There is only so much sheer turning force a given x discplacement engine can
make.  But if you can make that X amount of torque @ 18,000 rpm, then yeah
you can make 900 hp :)  The power at that point is made via mechanical
torque ala gearing.

mark
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