400 Will move 600 is pushing it 800 is just begging for tickets . 1000+? Well Hope you’re good friends with the tire shop
It depends not only by the car’s weight, it also depends the chasis, suspensions, wheels… It feels so much powerful 120 HP in a common 1970 Fiat 600 (weight about 600 700 kg, is a bit less than 7kg/hp) than 200 hp in a 1000 kg car with better chasis. Why? Because the Fiat has a very bad chasis (I’m not talking about the Abarth versions). And not only depends the number of the peak power. Most people talks “this car is faster because it has 20 more hps” and it can be wrong as hell. The power and torque curves (the area below the curves) is the most important thing. In Argentina is a very common thing to put a 2.4 16v from a Chevrolet Vectra (Opel Astra 2006 generation) in a mk1 opel corsa. It has “only” 150 hp in 950 kg… But more than 20 kgm and it can spin the wheels from 2000 rpm. Because at very low rpms it has a lot of torque.
180
200
240hp, i drove a Volvo S40 T5 when i was taking my driving test and that car felt pretty powerful, i asked my instuctor if he had floored it and he said yeah, try it yourself hahah
I’d say ~280bhp/1000kg
450bhp is plenty, any more than that and people get cocky and end up wrapped around a tree. Keep 450bhp and up on the track.
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For me it is when 0-100kph is below 8seconds :)
About 310
1000kg - 200hp
1300kg - 300hp
1500kg-350hp
400 Will move
600 is pushing it
800 is just begging for tickets .
1000+?
Well
Hope you’re good friends with the tire shop
It depends not only by the car’s weight, it also depends the chasis, suspensions, wheels… It feels so much powerful 120 HP in a common 1970 Fiat 600 (weight about 600 700 kg, is a bit less than 7kg/hp) than 200 hp in a 1000 kg car with better chasis. Why? Because the Fiat has a very bad chasis (I’m not talking about the Abarth versions). And not only depends the number of the peak power. Most people talks “this car is faster because it has 20 more hps” and it can be wrong as hell. The power and torque curves (the area below the curves) is the most important thing. In Argentina is a very common thing to put a 2.4 16v from a Chevrolet Vectra (Opel Astra 2006 generation) in a mk1 opel corsa. It has “only” 150 hp in 950 kg… But more than 20 kgm and it can spin the wheels from 2000 rpm. Because at very low rpms it has a lot of torque.
180
200
240hp, i drove a Volvo S40 T5 when i was taking my driving test and that car felt pretty powerful, i asked my instuctor if he had floored it and he said yeah, try it yourself hahah
I’d say ~280bhp/1000kg
450bhp is plenty, any more than that and people get cocky and end up wrapped around a tree. Keep 450bhp and up on the track.