But those 4000HP are there for minutes, not seconds ;-)
If you want serious HP, see the jet engines used on the latest Boeing
aircraft, as well as the Arleigh Burke class Aegis Destroyers. They put
out about 40,000 shp.
-Adam
Paul Stenquist wrote:
A mere 4000 horsepower? Peanuts:-)
Paul
On Mar 28, 2006, at 6:37 PM, Adam Maas wrote:
Nice, but not king.
King is a Rolls Royce Merlin Engine, all 28 or so litres of it,
tweaked out to 4000HP or so, in full song, better yet is more than
one of them. A close second is the sound of a Bearcat at full roar
(Which actually accellerates as fast or faster than most Nitro
dragsters, courtesy of the big honkin paddles hanging off its rotary)
-Adam
Paul Stenquist wrote:
No. You have it wrong. I've heard both of those, and they don't come
close to the king. The most incredible sound in motorsports is an
8-liter, 8000 horsepower, nitromethane-burinng, supercharged drag
racing engine at full tilt. That much air moving that fast creates a
sound unlike anything you have ever heard. Of course you shouldn't
listen without ear plugs. The exhaust note lays right under the
banshee scream of the intake, and it is wide, deep, and awesome. You
can feel it in the ground, and in anything you touch. Of course, if
you're standing near the starting line, you can also feel the
pavement move when the cars accelerate at an off-the-mark rate of
about 100 feet per second. Speeds at the 1/8th mile mark are now
around 270 mph. Zero to 200 comes in somewhere between two and three
seconds. Unfortunately, television chooses not to broadcast the real
sound of any motorsports. Unfortunate, to say the least.
Paul
On Mar 28, 2006, at 5:03 PM, John Francis wrote:
On Tue, Mar 28, 2006 at 01:44:39PM -0500, frank theriault wrote:
In motorsports the largest widescreen TV with 1000 watts of
surround-sound home theatre can never come close to the visceral
experience of several dozen big-block V8's rumbling, tires squealing,
the smell of smoke and gasoline, or in the case of F1, several dozen
3.5 litre V10's screaming at some 18,000 RPM (and at those revs,
"scream" is the word).
That was last year. This year they're 2.4L V8s, revving to 20K+
But the big-block V8s in NASCAR or Trans-Am (or some ALMS classes)
are the most awesome sound, if you ask me. Especially if you catch
them at some event like Long Beach, where they are running on city
streets (aka concrete canyons). The sound of a Trans-Am pack running
between the vertical walls of the Convention Center and the parking
structure has to be felt to be believed. It literally shakes the
buildings enough to trigger car alarms.
