Cobra Safety and HP

[Tomsti]

HI, I am new around here and just in the planning stages of building a car. If the $$ works out :-) might take a little bit. However I was thinking that a 500 + HP machine would be the right thing to do (Not a daily driver, I live in the rain or cold 9 to 10 months of the year in Seattle). After reading most of the posts I still feel that this is the right thinking for me. Currently I race motorcycles (Not saying that I am any better then anyone else, just that I currently deal in low weight high hp machines). I ride a bike that I am estimating in race trim is at about 380 wet without me on it. Add 200 (Me) and you have 580 / 154HP = 3.76 lbs per HP that needs to be controlled on a very small patch of rubber, sometimes only one wheel is on the ground at 130+.

What I would like to say is… I shouldn't say this because now I will crash… Well, I am not known as a crasher (some guys are)… 4 seasons at this one time down because someone else hit me. I am at the tail end of our fast guys and seem to be able to keep the bike on two wheels. Reason…. I don't know, all I can think of is maybe the way I approach problems that you encounter pushing mass around track/street. There are guys out there that loose their minds and try things that really don't benefit them at all and it usually ends up with them on the ground.

When you add HP you really have to get rid of the red mist and start using finesse. Finesse and the knowledge of how your vehicle reacts to input. Hard to figure out from stoplight to stoplight.

HP isn't what kills it's the idiot behind the wheel.

Tom "idiot behind the wheel" Stimach.