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Originally Posted by Rob. Smith
I also subscribe to HOTROD magazine and there is regularly 1000 HP street cars featured on their pages. .... The basic technology compared to the "high tech" F1 stuff seems to produce a tougher, more reliable engine.
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Apples and oranges. Throw forced induction into the equation and it's a whole other conversation. I'll go back to my engine as an example. It will show 1000hp on the dyno before it goes into the next car, and it'll do it on our 98 RON pump fuel, which is the 93 octane (R+M)/2 in America. The engine consists mainly of off the shelf parts, a bit of port work on the heads, plus a good fuel management system. Oh yeah, and a Vortech supercharger to force things along... 1000hp is a yawn these days for a blown street engine. The real engineering achievement is getting a racing engine to perform at peak efficiency, with sufficient reliability, and most importantly within the tight regulations and rules of the racing class. That's the stuff that impresses me.