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    Got this story in the Hemmings blog this morning....


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  • #2
    What the hell? "440 volts at 3,600 amps" WOW. What is that, like a million and a half WATTS? JUST WOW... that'd be over 2100 hp.

    I think I need to read that again. The cables would be as big as my arm....

    ah, okay, I went to his site. He's saying 800+ hp / 1800 lb feet of torque. Still, pretty amazing.
    Last edited by Beagle; June 17, 2015, 07:02 AM.
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    • #3
      He's a member on www.vintage-mustang.com When he first came on he didn't give too much info. He sounded like a noob asking how to build a 1000 hp car. After seeing some posts of progress we took him seriously. http://forums.vintage-mustang.com/mo...echonolgy.html
      Last edited by Huskinhano; June 17, 2015, 02:30 PM.
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      • #4
        Watts equals amps times volts so... 440x3600=1,584,000 watts.
        1 watt eqauls .00134102209 horsepower, we'll round it off to .00134. so .00134x1,584,000=2122.56

        You are right in your calculations. What the hell??? Something is seriously not adding up. I can see him running those numbers with the equivalent of 800+hp, but if he was running 2100+hp, that would be closing in on pro mod territory, wouldn't it?

        I like the car, I'm just perplexed by the gap in what it's power should be and what it actually is.
        I'm probably wrong

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        • #5
          If he's got 13-inch Brembos on it all around to stop it just once per time at the end of a drag strip, that thing must weigh portly tons with those batteries in it.
          Charter member of the Turd Nuggets

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          • #6
            Originally posted by tedly View Post
            Watts equals amps times volts so... 440x3600=1,584,000 watts.
            1 watt eqauls .00134102209 horsepower, we'll round it off to .00134. so .00134x1,584,000=2122.56

            You are right in your calculations. What the hell??? Something is seriously not adding up. I can see him running those numbers with the equivalent of 800+hp, but if he was running 2100+hp, that would be closing in on pro mod territory, wouldn't it?

            I like the car, I'm just perplexed by the gap in what it's power should be and what it actually is.
            exponential loss, like a counterbalanced crank.
            friction gains, power demands... it dies faster and faster to the goals max.

            logarithmic.
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            • #7
              Originally posted by boxer3main View Post

              exponential loss, like a counterbalanced crank.
              friction gains, power demands... it dies faster and faster to the goals max.

              logarithmic.


              OK, but we are talking about the number it should be putting out being 2 1/2 times the number that it is putting out. A 1300hp loss to run 800hp? That is a MASSIVE amount of loss.
              I'm probably wrong

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              • #8
                Originally posted by tedly View Post
                Watts equals amps times volts so... 440x3600=1,584,000 watts.
                1 watt eqauls .00134102209 horsepower, we'll round it off to .00134. so .00134x1,584,000=2122.56

                You are right in your calculations. What the hell??? Something is seriously not adding up. I can see him running those numbers with the equivalent of 800+hp, but if he was running 2100+hp, that would be closing in on pro mod territory, wouldn't it?

                I like the car, I'm just perplexed by the gap in what it's power should be and what it actually is.
                I think the writeup suggested it was 440v and it's 220v x 2 motors so their math fingers and toes got crossed up and came up with 440. Still.. F*ing crazy!
                Flying south, with a flock of bird dogs.

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                • #9
                  I got to see it run at San Antonio Raceway last Friday it is all kind of wrong , like watching a vid without sound. The sound of the tires ripping against the pavement is about all the sound there is.

                  Driving past me in the pits after a pass it smells like the bumper cars at the Santa Monica Pier.

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