How fast can a Stock Auto-xB Go?
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Originally Posted by djct_watt
Calculate everything out, and at 106MPH, you travel approximately 155 feet/second, which means that you're dropping at whopping rate of 9 feet/second!!!!! But then again, that number doesn't really mean anything at all, since it doesn't actually tell you how much gravity is assisting you, but rather your speed of decent.
23400/550=42HP.
Yep, that downgrade was adding 42HP to the power driving the car along!
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Originally Posted by George
Originally Posted by djct_watt
Calculate everything out, and at 106MPH, you travel approximately 155 feet/second, which means that you're dropping at whopping rate of 9 feet/second!!!!! But then again, that number doesn't really mean anything at all, since it doesn't actually tell you how much gravity is assisting you, but rather your speed of decent.
23400/550=42HP.
Yep, that downgrade was adding 42HP to the power driving the car along!
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It takes waaaay to much brain power for me to process that stuff to that degree. It's been WAY too long since I've applied this stuff. Haha! 42HP!!! That's awesome. My next mod: making my driveway steeper
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Originally Posted by djct_watt
Originally Posted by George
Actually, that number tells a lot. Figuring that the car weighs something like 2600 pounds with driver. Decending at 9FPS means that the gravity is doing 2600*9=23400 ft-lbs of work on the car every second. Since 1HP=550 ft-lb/s, a little division:
23400/550=42HP.
Yep, that downgrade was adding 42HP to the power driving the car along!
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23400/550=42HP.
Yep, that downgrade was adding 42HP to the power driving the car along!
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It takes waaaay to much brain power for me to process that stuff to that degree. It's been WAY too long since I've applied this stuff. Haha! 42HP!!! That's awesome. My next mod: making my driveway steeper
One of my christmas gifts from my wife is Richard Feynman's book "The Pleasure of Finding Things Out". The title kind of says it all!
Another way to develop a basic understanding of uphill/downhill power is to drive a VW bus. Any vehicle that weighs 4000 pounds and makes 50 HP will make the driver very aware of what hills do to the vehicle's performance. That hill on which Edlin was bustin' the ton downhill would have my Bus down to about 40MPH on the uphill!
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The one I'm having trouble applying is: to which vector does the force apply? Is that all downwards force? I'm lost when it gets to that point. I'd start busting out some tip to tail drawings, but I'm extraordinarily lazy right now, since I just ate a ton of food.
Would it be the hypotenuse vector of 155ft/s and 9ft/s?
Would it be the hypotenuse vector of 155ft/s and 9ft/s?
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Ok, I busted out some calculations out of boredom. I'm no expert, so please correct me if I'm wrong.
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VFall
I think you were right about 42hp, but isn't that at a downward vector? I'm really lost, so I might be totally off track.
155^2 + 9^2 = 155.26^2
And that means the fall has increased the distance traveled by .26 (as opposed to 155 flat). Therefore
0.26*2600 = 676
676/550 =1.23hp?
Am I wrong or am I right? I have no idea!
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VFall
I think you were right about 42hp, but isn't that at a downward vector? I'm really lost, so I might be totally off track.
155^2 + 9^2 = 155.26^2
And that means the fall has increased the distance traveled by .26 (as opposed to 155 flat). Therefore
0.26*2600 = 676
676/550 =1.23hp?
Am I wrong or am I right? I have no idea!
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Originally Posted by djct_watt
The one I'm having trouble applying is: to which vector does the force apply? Is that all downwards force? I'm lost when it gets to that point. I'd start busting out some tip to tail drawings, but I'm extraordinarily lazy right now, since I just ate a ton of food.
Would it be the hypotenuse vector of 155ft/s and 9ft/s?
Would it be the hypotenuse vector of 155ft/s and 9ft/s?
The other way to think of it is in terms of the car's motion. The car is going 155ft/s downhill. The force vector in the direction of motion is the weight of the car times the sine of the angle that the road makes with the horizontal. We know the run and drop of the car (155&9) so we can calculate the angle as tan[theta]=opp/adj=9/155 or [theta]=3.4 degrees.
The force vector is therefore 2600*sin3.4 or 156 pounds.
Multiply this by the vehicles speed vector of 155m/s and you get 155ft/s*156lbs=24,000ft-lb/s. Divide this by 550ft-lb/s to get horsepower and you get 44HP. The difference between the values is due to rounding error because of the small angle, which is why I prefer the energy conservation approach.
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THATS FUNNY IV PUSHED MY BOX TO 110MPH AND THEN THE CAR SHUTOFF AND DROPED TO 70MPH I THINK
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Originally Posted by George
Originally Posted by djct_watt
The one I'm having trouble applying is: to which vector does the force apply? Is that all downwards force? I'm lost when it gets to that point. I'd start busting out some tip to tail drawings, but I'm extraordinarily lazy right now, since I just ate a ton of food.
Would it be the hypotenuse vector of 155ft/s and 9ft/s?
Would it be the hypotenuse vector of 155ft/s and 9ft/s?
The other way to think of it is in terms of the car's motion. The car is going 155ft/s downhill. The force vector in the direction of motion is the weight of the car times the sine of the angle that the road makes with the horizontal. We know the run and drop of the car (155&9) so we can calculate the angle as tan[theta]=opp/adj=9/155 or [theta]=3.4 degrees.
The force vector is therefore 2600*sin3.4 or 156 pounds.
Multiply this by the vehicles speed vector of 155m/s and you get 155ft/s*156lbs=24,000ft-lb/s. Divide this by 550ft-lb/s to get horsepower and you get 44HP. The difference between the values is due to rounding error because of the small angle, which is why I prefer the energy conservation approach.
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Originally Posted by RedneckwithanxB
yeah, i had the box up to 125 comin back from HIN miami.....
barried in the governer
but i kept up with a C class benz, a hemi C, and an S40
barried in the governer
but i kept up with a C class benz, a hemi C, and an S40
A hemi C has 340hp. . . and is a LOT faster than an xB. . . even a turbo xB. Even if you somehow managed 200hp, you'd still have a tough time. I'd think that you'd need a MINIMUM of 250 to keep up. I think the 300C was just driving normally (or was in a semi-hurry).
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Originally Posted by hotbox05
redneck you have what mods? because i dont believe you've gone 125.....