Any other gear-/motor-/petrol-heads here?

[jrrdw]

What about us that don't use Theopia?

Go and join up! It's all good!

I think I've seen you there before anyhow?????

[SEAKING9006]

Nope, you're mistaken.

[TwitchTheAussie]

Mines already got its own topic on here somewhere. Aussie muscle all the way . With a low grand I could get my old V8 to run a 10sec pass on street tires Who can boast that?

[Gippeto]

My bike'll do that....easy.

But it cost more than a grand.

[Killjoy]

haha I think you might be losing this one jjrdw.

I love cars but my financial situation has prevented me from any serious tinkering or modding. My baby though is a 2005 Ford Expedition NBX. It's not built for speed, but it is a tank and can still haul ass even at being 6500lbs. Blessed 3 valve 5.4L V8.

I'm hoping to gift it a front (Ranch Hand) and rear (WAAG) grill guard, new exhaust, and a cold air intake over the summer. Its just begging for it.

[TwitchTheAussie]

My bike'll do that....easy.

But it cost more than a grand.

Gotta love reading the Bible (Street Machine Magazine). Any aussies with cash n know jack all about cars come to me lol. Ill get it purring like a kitty.

[jrrdw]

[quote="TwitchTheAussie"]Mines already got its own topic on here somewhere. Aussie muscle all the way . With a low grand I could get my old V8 to run a 10sec pass on street tires Who can boast that?[/quote]

Street tires wont go on this one, but it beets 10 seconds, 9.32's!

http://s82.photobucket.com/albums/j246/ ... apart1.flv

[TwitchTheAussie]

While it is loading why do I get a sudden sense my ego is about to be attacked brutally and violently? :lol

Edit: Ok so I guess those 350 odd cubes will beat my bored and stroked 308 with better heads lol[/list]

[jrrdw]

It's a blown 327 making around 450 horse power on cam2 gas. I was to the floor trying to keep up with him a time or two, I could still hear his tires squeeling at about 70 mph as far in front of me as he was.

His tires are 32"s wide and 32"s high and can't get traction even at 70mph. He has to run Hoosiers(sp) wrinkle walls at the track and still has problems finding traction. Thats why I named that video clip what I did.

[TwitchTheAussie]

Haha tractions always a problem with horsies like that. Itd be fun to drive though

[john bunsenburner]

one slightly off topic question from an amature: if i have a 2hp comperssor what do the two horse powers refer to, i heard there are several kinds of hps...?

[jrrdw]

Wikipedia:
Mechanical horsepower
See History of the term "horsepower"
The term "horsepower" was coined by the engineer James Watt in 1782 while working in the performance of steam engines. This occurred while using a mine pony to lift coal out of a coal mine. He conceived the idea of defining the power exerted by these animals to accomplish this work. He found that, on the average, a mine pony could pull (lift by means of a pulley) 22,000 foot-pounds per minute. Rather than call this "pony" power, he may have increased these test results by 50 percent, and called it horsepower i.e. 33,000 foot-pounds of work per minute.

Assuming the third CGPM (1901, CR 70) definition of standard gravity, g, and the international avoirdupois pound (1958), one mechanical horsepower is:

1 hp ≡ 33,000 ft·lbf/min by definition
= 550 ft·lbf/s since 1 min = 60 s
= 550 × 0.3048 × 0.45359237 m·kgf/s since 1 ft = 0.3048 m and
= 76.0402249068 kgf·m/s 1 lb = 0.45359237 kg
= 76.0402249068 × 9.80665 kg·m²/s³ g = 9.80665 m/s²
= 745.69 W since 1 W ≡ 1 J/s = 1 N·m/s = 1 (kg·m/s²)·(m/s)

Or given that 1 hp = 550 ft·lbf/s, 1 ft = 0.3048 m, 1 lb = 4.448 N, 1 J = 1 N·m, 1 W = 1 J/s: 1 hp = 746 W

cross multiply and cancel out:

550 ft-lb/s 0.3048 m 4.448 N 1 J 1 W
1 hp 1 ft 1 lb 1 N-m 1 J/s

= 745.66272 W or 746 W

Link to artical

[john bunsenburner]

Oh ok, thank you i looked at the same artical then scrolled down and say all the different subtiles with electrical and other horese powers, that confused me. thank you for your help.

[TwitchTheAussie]

Suddenly Im glad Australia is trying to convert me to using kilowatts