Drag race - Kirkham 65 side-oiler vs Ferrari 458 italia

[tommygold]

This is great news. The calculator explains that I will go in 10.167 seconds, notwithstanding that most of the car magazines put it at 11.5, and the fastest published time is 10.80.

[undy]

Originally Posted by tommygold

This is great news. The calculator explains that I will go in 10.167 seconds, notwithstanding that most of the car magazines put it at 11.5, and the fastest published time is 10.80.

I did a search myself and found exactly the same thing on the times. The 10.80 was at 133 mph, a little high on the MPH for your horsepower to weight ratio. You usually can dump the high number and the low number then take the mean of the remaining published times. That should get you a good idea of what you "could" be capable of.

Just remember, those 1/4 mile to horsepower calculators assume perfect drivers with cars that have perfect gearing for 1/4 mile runs and ideal front to rear weight transfer that loads the driving wheels optimally. You can probably figure running about a second slower than the software says you can run.

My little piece of advise... Stay out of the staging water box, with your tire warm up and driving up to staging.