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On 1/23/2020 at 11:06 PM, sunburnwilly said:

It's hard to look away

Houston Cars and Coffee 2020

 

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Yep the news from that day could have been a lot different if someone with more HP than brains took out half a block of your aptly named spectators!

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} No offense intended but Hellcat/Demon tire smokin videos are a dime-a-dozen on the interweb. I’m not sure what these folks are trying to prove as it doesn’t take much imagination to think what 700+ HP will do to a set of tires. I had one, and never once, ever, did I feel the need to completely roast the tires. With zero effort they’re spinning. Without restraint it’s easy to burn through $750 of tires in a couple thousand miles. Nuthin’ like the smell of burnin’ rubber in the morning 🤧

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When I was young I was a big fan of the older guys in the neighborhood and their hot rods. Before I had a DL, like age 13/14 or so, we'd go down to the Rivergate auditorium (has been demo'd and now the site of Harrah's Casino)  in New Orleans at night when the annual car show was over (Sunday night) and the vehicles pulled out. To hear the engine's open headers, and some burnouts were done. Some blown big block altereds too. The cops generally looked the other way unless something or someone got way outa hand. I'm talking ~ 47 years ago. It was a good time.

 

Today anybody can go into a new car dealer and purchase a car with 700 HP straight from the factory, if you have the financial resources. Doesn't mean you also get intelligence or common sense with your purchase. Case in point - 2020 Shelby Mustang GT500 = 760 HP. Or for several years now the Dodge Hellcat 600-727 HP. Camaro ZL1 = 650 HP.

 

Can you imagine a 16 or 17 yo male teenager with a 760 HP Mustang mommy or daddy purchased them for their BD or Christmas?

Let the good times roll.

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43 minutes ago, polizzio said:

Can you imagine a 16 or 17 yo male teenager with a 760 HP Mustang mommy or daddy purchased them for their BD or Christmas?

 

It's been like that in the motorcycle world  for decades. Natural selection at work, as they planted themselves in a canyon wall or a bridge abutment.

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2 minutes ago, Edgar said:

 

It's been like that in the motorcycle world  for decades. Natural selection at work, as they planted themselves in a canyon wall or a bridge abutment.

 

You are right, I forgot about that aspect. 160 hp showroom superbikes are pretty common these days. Darwin's Natural Selection?

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More examples of what the microprocessor has done for performance engines. DI, precision control of the combustion process and timing, parts machining, engineering and modeling software, real time sampling, advanced materials, ect.

Its a magnificent time for 4 stroke performance engines, and transmissions too. Not bad in TF either.....11,000 HP from a 500 ci nasty engine. 20+ HP per cubic inch of displacement.

Or F1 engines spinning 14k rpm, making power.

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20 minutes ago, Schu said:

Forced induction is a little different than N/A when talking bhp/L numbers... Ive seen more than a Thousand horsepower from 2 liters.

 

Kawasaki makes a supercharged literbike that makes 310 bhp. Fully streetable, with warranty; if you have $29K in disposable income you can ride it home.

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3 minutes ago, Edgar said:

 

Kawasaki makes a supercharged literbike that makes 310 bhp. Fully streetable, with warranty; if you have $29K in disposable income you can ride it home.

 

I cannot imagine that. I operated motorcycles for 35+ years, dragged a few too. Kawasaki Z1......old school. Maybe 120 HP then. A guy i worked with had a Kaw ZX14 modded, doing 190 mph + and this was like 10 years ago.

300 hp on a street legal motorcycle....WOW. New meaning to the term crotch rocket :)

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