Originally posted by "sloaccord"
Originally Posted by gearheadjunkie
tampa racing is so fucking gay, the only people that answer peoples questions are the ones that own car shops, the others just talk shit.
i dont own a shop, but i will help you- because i'm the nicest motherfucker here.
164 hp is 164 hp, wind drag doesnt change anything, unless it's a magical wind that makes your engine suck.
what you're referring to, i think, is the tranny hp loss that happens when dynoing a car- since you can't dyno an engine (well, you can, but you have to take it out of the car and take it to a special engine dynamometer- which no one i know has around here)- you can only dyno a car, which loses hp through the transfer of power in the transmission, which, in a fwd, is usually around 15%. so 164 means the engine makes around 195 hp. and even magical winds dont change that.
unless you have ram-air, and even then only at speed
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The answer to your question is sqrt(pi)