Ah, young grass hopper that shows how yee has little knowledge of the the Turbo Buick power curve. It's not the horsepower with these cars it's the torque and they make gobs and gobs of that. 285 HP to the wheels will get you into the 12's with some stickies.
You ricer guys kill me with the HP talk. It takes you 3 times the dollars to make power then you can't put it to the ground without constanly breaking parts. Now what fun is that? And to boot you don't suffer from a 20% power loss through the driveline.
MoeJr post the torque numbers also.
ah.. er.. "old" grasshopper? it's clear that you have no clue of what you speak.
first off: we've had many a honda civic with a total of $3000 into it (including the cost of the car) that had 350whp and ran high 11s on 215 size drag radials. no clue what it would do with slicks. i never tried, as anyone with a fast car can run good times on sticky tires. i also got 36mph and drove the car very hard at drag strips, street races, AND road courses for two years before selling it. pointless you say? depending on your point of view, yes. that was part of the fun. but then you could also say so is not intercooling a turbo car. pointless. but fun for some of you. just not me.
my honda comment was just poking fun. kinda how despite all the power our hondas made, they had very little torque. we'd make fun of that too. our 600whp civic only made about 400ft lbs or so. now, to me, that is hilarious. it's all due to the fact that the car was only 2.0L but revved to 9,000rpm.
again, you can keep the ricer comments to yourself. no wonder you are supposedly 'signing off', with an attitude like that towards others. you don't see me calling you a stubborn old dinosaur that simply refuses to be open-minded about using newer technology, do you? no. why? partly because i don't care what you do with your car and also because i respect your opinions on how you want to build it. go for it, man. anything you do with your "pure" HA car, i can improve on with my IC'd car. lucky for me, people like you have put all the hard work into finding formulas that work. i get to build on them. i feel i deserve that because of all we've given to the Honda community over the years. LOL. we've helped more people than i can count.. now it's nice to be on the other end.
secondly, my last car made quite a bit more torque than horsepower. i understand HP and TQ curves. our mustang had 550/550, my last car had 334/345, etc, etc. i know horsepower isn't the total story with any vehicle just saying that, unless the car in the video posted above made 281/400tq, then i'll, at some point, have to do something to get more power. why does that get under your skin so much? i just don't get it. or, the internet being what it is, maybe i'm misinterpreting your posts wrong. if i'm taking your comments too serious, than i apologize.
now. we can debate this all day long and get nowhere because neither of us will change our minds, or you can play nice and accept the fact that not everyone wants to build your car.