Originally posted by Graves5.0
Lots of Supra's get their asses handed to them in the 1/4 only because their peak power/tq is acheived at a higher RPM.
Mustangs and F-bodies make all their power at a lower RPM. That's just the nature of the America V8. Drag racing isn't a huge thing over-seas, in Japan and Europe as it is here, so they don't build their sports cars to go from point A to point B in a certain amount of time. Don't know if anyone has noticed, but , for example: the S2000's redline is close to 9000, and it makes its peak power from high 6k-8k. That's why they don't do well in the quarter, because they need more time to get their power down. It's not that they're weak, slow cars. If Mustangs were built to do nothing but road race, open track and that type of thing, or to Japanese/European specs, I guarantee you that they would have a higher redline, and they wouldn't reach peak numbers until around 6-7k rpm.
Different cultures have different ways of thinking and thus engineer things differently. In my opinion, the Japanese are far more advanced in the engineering dept. than we are.
Why not make a Mustang GT or Cobra with AWD? Why not build the motor to perform at higher RPM? Why does the car have to have all of it's balls at the low-end?
Don't mean to babble.. certain subjects get me going.
Ever looked at a '96-'98 or '99 or '01 Cobras Dyno sheet?
Those cars still will kick the shit out of an N/A Supra and they make peak TQ at something like 6500 RPM's.