Contour Enthusiasts Group Archives Forums General Dyno and Drag 3L Contour vs SRT-4?

Originally posted by Kremithefrog:

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Originally posted by DemonSVT:

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Originally posted by ATL-SVT:

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I mean 101 MPH, but that was before stage 1.

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That's a VERY slow trap for a turbo charged CONTOUR...

Didn't Tom trap around 108... Before...

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Well with about 100hp more, I sure would hope the contour would trap faster,, but only 7mph.

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Um yeah..

How come a fricking ZO6 Vette averages only 10 MPH more in the 1/4?

It's called the exponential force of wind resistance.

You make it sound like 7 MPH faster trap speed in the 1/4 is nothing. The stock Z06 runs between 107-114 in the 1/4 mile with 400+ crank horsepower and dyno on average 330 wHP.
There are plenty of cars running less between 200-300 HP that can trapp 100 mPH in the 1/4.

With the force of wind resistance being exponential it requires ALOT more power to go from say 100 MPH to 104 MPH and ALOT more than that to go up to 108 MPH.
The 1/4 mile ET is less HP dependent and more easily affected by the launch conditions. THe faster you get rolling and up to speed the better the ET while the trapp speed can still be low.
I saw RWD cars trapping only 99 MPH on 13.0 second ET's....