But what about a 320+ hp in a car a bit over 3,000lbs? Now torque is a different part of the equation!32wildbilly wrote: ↑Wed Aug 19, 2020 8:05 amI agree whole heartedly. 210 hp with just a bit over 2,000lbs! Recipe for disaster.OceanBlue2000 wrote: ↑Wed Aug 19, 2020 7:45 am
210 HP in a car that small will murderlize you quick. I will be yelling that word as I spin into a tree.
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320 hp!? That would be on 5 cylinders!!!Hatchetf15 wrote: ↑Wed Aug 19, 2020 11:03 amBut what about a 320+ hp in a car a bit over 3,000lbs? Now torque is a different part of the equation!32wildbilly wrote: ↑Wed Aug 19, 2020 8:05 am
I agree whole heartedly. 210 hp with just a bit over 2,000lbs! Recipe for disaster.
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Not bad...but not Zlad. Get ready for downcount.
Kalashnikov wrote: ↑Fri Aug 14, 2020 6:55 pm Schnell was featured in this video... The year of my birth. Right on man!
Understeer: You will hit the wall with the front end.
Oversteer: You will hit the wall with the rear end.
Horsepower: How hard you will hit the wall.
Torque: How far you will move the wall.
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Now that I could get down with...pretty rad stuff right there!5chn3ll wrote: ↑Thu Aug 20, 2020 8:07 am Not bad...but not Zlad. Get ready for downcount.
Kalashnikov wrote: ↑Fri Aug 14, 2020 6:55 pm Schnell was featured in this video... The year of my birth. Right on man!
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Naw, sounds like fun to me32wildbilly wrote: ↑Wed Aug 19, 2020 8:05 amI agree whole heartedly. 210 hp with just a bit over 2,000lbs! Recipe for disaster.OceanBlue2000 wrote: ↑Wed Aug 19, 2020 7:45 am
210 HP in a car that small will murderlize you quick. I will be yelling that word as I spin into a tree.
Then again, I am a little warped, I did exit an airplane at altitude last Saturday
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and it was a perfectly good operating airplane at that...right?JayG wrote: ↑Fri Aug 21, 2020 7:27 pmNaw, sounds like fun to me32wildbilly wrote: ↑Wed Aug 19, 2020 8:05 am
I agree whole heartedly. 210 hp with just a bit over 2,000lbs! Recipe for disaster.
Then again, I am a little warped, I did exit an airplane at altitude last Saturday
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With nothing but some strings and a piece of cloth on your back.32wildbilly wrote: ↑Sat Aug 22, 2020 5:00 amand it was a perfectly good operating airplane at that...right?
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yes it was DH Twin Otter32wildbilly wrote: ↑Sat Aug 22, 2020 5:00 amand it was a perfectly good operating airplane at that...right?
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Well I was attached to the instructor, he was attached to the strings and silkFRUNKenstein wrote: ↑Sat Aug 22, 2020 1:35 pmWith nothing but some strings and a piece of cloth on your back.32wildbilly wrote: ↑Sat Aug 22, 2020 5:00 am
and it was a perfectly good operating airplane at that...right?
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Regardless, I wouldn't let my corpse get hooked up to a sky diving instructor. (Let that image sink in.) Bravo for doing it. Life changing?
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