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Old 01-16-2011, 10:15 PM
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I feel that most of HP numbers that you see listed today by the car builder is at the rear wheels. With that said I see evry few that willoduce what they say they will at the rear wheels. The new Z06 I believe is rated at 505 HP but is more like 450HP at the rear wheel. I would have to do some research on this myself. I do believe that the new cars get the power to the rear wheels better than the old cars and the Cobras for sure. It take a 550HP engine to get around 450HP at the rear tires on most Cobras and that is with a good exhaust and drive line. It would be interesting to have some of the engine of new design and old on the same engine dyno to compare them.


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