Spoolpigeon wrote: My old car made 257 torques, 215 horsepowers, and was running 15 boost pressures.
that's enough to make a few people's heads on here 'splode..
Spoolpigeon wrote: My old car made 257 torques, 215 horsepowers, and was running 15 boost pressures.
that's enough to make a few people's heads on here 'splode..
accordionfolder wrote:novaderrik wrote: i 98 Cavalier had enough torques to beat an old Prelude in a race at a stoplight the other day... well, i wasn't racing, but the kid in the Prelude thought he was.. i was just driving nice and pulling away from him, but i could hear that he was going all "fast and furious" as he ran thru the gears.. i learned that while it has a severe lacking in the torques department, an OHV 2.2 in a beat up Cavalier with 296,500 miles on it has moar torques than whatever they put in beat up old Preludes..Depends on how old the prelude was: pre-88 sure it's just an accord. 88-91 are pretty frisky. Unless it was carb'd they are pretty quick. 92-96 They had a great potential to be very frisky, unless it was the "S" trim which is pretty vanilla. 97+ are all go fast, a bit heavy though. It definitly wasn't this one(ignore the terrible music)
can't watch that video- not a member of teh youtubes. i really don't know my Hondas, but it did have a Prelude badge on the back and was somehow more rusted out and beat to E36 M3 than my Cavvy..
novaderrik wrote: can't watch that video- not a member of teh youtubes. i really don't know my Hondas, but it did have a Prelude badge on the back and was somehow more rusted out and beat to E36 M3 than my Cavvy..
Nothing earth shattering, just a video of the infamous (in the prelude world) Tony Baker 91 Honda Prelude walking a 500whp Mustang Cobra. His car is what all 3rd gen preludes want to grow up to be.
http://www.preludepower.com/forums/showthread.php?t=296917&highlight=
Spoolpigeon wrote: My old car made 257 torques, 215 horsepowers, and was running 15 boost pressures.
How much BAR is that?
In reply to Tyler H:
Don't you mean bars?
In reply to bravenrace: I think it's BARS of PSI.
I never understood why car makers have to make their EV and hybrid vehicles so ugly?
mad_machine wrote: I never understood why car makers have to make their EV and hybrid vehicles so ugly?
so they stand out.. they know that the average consumer of something like this wants the world to know that they are the kind of person that would buy something like that..
http://www.southparkstudios.com/clips/155193/thanks
Toyota couldn't just put their new hybrid driveline in the Corolla or something- they had to invent the Prius.. Chevy couldn't just make a hybrid Cobalt- they had to invent the Volt..
This thread made me LOLes.
Teh E36 M3 wrote: In reply to bravenrace: I think it's BARS of PSI.
No, no, no. It's BARS of Pressures.
bravenrace wrote:Teh E36 M3 wrote: In reply to bravenrace: I think it's BARS of PSI.No, no, no. It's BARS of Pressures.
isn't it Pounds of Boost Pressures, or just "Boost Pressures" when talking to others that know about these things?
In reply to novaderrik:
I don't know if you know this or not, but I was kidding when I said that. And you're asking the wrong guy about what you say to others. I try to use the correct terms in an effort to not sound like a moron.
Yeah... so about the electric car. Everyone fixates on the high torque but ignores the fact that it can only do it for a very short time. Worse, it may require a cool-down period of many minutes. It's the whole product to consider and not just one (momentary) peak spec...
Spoolpigeon wrote: My old car made 257 torques, 215 horsepowers, and was running 15 boost pressures.
My car made 340 torques at 18 boosts.
bravenrace wrote: In reply to novaderrik: I don't know if you know this or not, but I was kidding when I said that. And you're asking the wrong guy about what you say to others. I try to use the correct terms in an effort to not sound like a moron.
i don't know if you know this or not, but i don't think i've typed a single serious thing in this thread..
I imagine they just use some sort of voltage reducer off the main battery.
iceracer wrote: I imagine they just use some sort of voltage reducer off the main battery.
I can't speak for automotive EVs, but in the industrial vehicle world, DC to DC convertors for accessories are common. They basically a a filtered and regulated step down transformer.
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