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Learn to drift, nub.

Hmm not saying that your wrong, however 'drifting' isn't a teenage term. Hell, it's been a Japanese racing concept since the 60s - 70s, and even in WRC it's called 'drifting'. Now, I've heard of several 'drift races' but never heard of 'cornering races'. Must be a Europe term.

Edited, Jul 15th 2007 4:13pm by Rimesume

Well said and true by all accounts. The most important part to remember is that there is NO substitute for cubic inches. If there were then why do top fuel dragsters, the fastest of the fastest, use huge 600+ cubic inch V-8's?
If your happy with what you have then you have the greatest car on earth, if not, then modify it to what you want. Almost any car can be modified to do anything you want it to do with any engine.

The little 4cyl import bandits will try to argue with that all day long, and talk about boosting, but you can just as easily add boost to a V-8 to put out even more HP more reliably. Regardless of what anyone says, a higher displacement motor always has the potential of putting out more HP than a lower displacement motor.

It will always result in a heavier slower car, too. Yay! Displacement is meaningless in any form of racing that doesn't involve tractor pulls. Formula 1 engines are 2.4L.

You can fit a bajillion cubic inch engine into a 4oz car, but stick with a crappy chassis, poor suspension or sloppy transmission and your horsepower becomes as relevant as the number of butterfly wings you could fit into the air-vents.

Horsepower/weight/chassis stability/suspension/gearing.

If any one of those is significantly lower or higher in quality/performance than the rest, you have yourself a shopping trolley.


Balance, baby. All about the balance.

Zen

. . . and breathe out

If you like quoting my posts so much, maybe you should also quote the line where I said that Formula 1 cars are a different breed of car altogether. And that you're comparing apples to oranges.

Any idiot knows a lighter car with the same power will go faster. This post was about normal cars, and cars that people can modify in various different fashions. How many people do you know who drive an F1 car around town on a daily basis?

Back to your original idiotic quote,


First of all ask the Nascar guys if they'd like to swap out their motors for 2.4l and see how much you get laughed at. Also, while you're at it ask the Pro draggers the same question. That's probably the 2 most popular racing styles in the country, even though I absolutely hate Nascar. Second of all, I guess I'm a little unsure of what you mean when you say it "will result" in a heavier, slower car. Do you mean that it will be heavier and slower because of the added weight of the bigger engine, or because the bigger engines come in bigger cars? Because assuming the car itself is the same size, the higher displacement motor with the higher HP will most likely win. The added weight of the engine is very minimal compared to the added HP.

Now if you're talking about those engines just coming in heavier cars, well let's just line up a turbo'd prelude or civic with a supercharged Chevelle with a 427. Hmmmm... let's see, bigger engine, more displacement, heavier car, but I highly doubt it would be the slower of the two.