horsepower

[obr184]

What sort of horsepower are the buggy/truck guys getting out of the different engnes especially the 350 V8s??

i have herd of some pretty big numbers but sound a little unbeleivable.....

[ntsqd]

650 would be easy, 800 is possible but approaching the durability limit. So a short race engine may have something in the range of 800, but a B1k engine will have less so that it will live long enough.

[Kritter]

The Skat V4 engines are awesome...a 350V8 cut in half...they scream! Not sure on HP numbers.

[prerunner1499]

a racer I know said he is getting around 300 hp out of his scat v4

[obr184]

we had a old sprint car motor with a turbo on it which was a 350 cut in half but down the center. it was the fastest buggy I had ever seen. Just awesome to watch. i beleive markings had a skat motor in his??

But 650-800 horepower thats huge why is there the need for that amount of HP?

We have just bought a cosworth turbo powered Jimco and it is said to have 600bhp but as soon as we get hold of it then I am sure we will turn it down a fair bit.

[ntsqd]

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we had a old sprint car motor with a turbo on it which was a 350 cut in half but down the center. it was the fastest buggy I had ever seen. Just awesome to watch. i beleive markings had a skat motor in his??

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Split down the middle makes it an inline 4, SCAT's are V-4's.

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But 650-800 horepower thats huge why is there the need for that amount of HP?


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Weight. Power to kick out the rear at will. Shear fun and giggles.

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We have just bought a cosworth turbo powered Jimco and it is said to have 600bhp......

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That's a lot from a BDA, assuming that it is and not a YB.

[mexracer10]

i know the new 5.7 350 LS6 engine has 405 stock hp, but a race engine has to be around 450-600 hp.

[FABRICATOR]

As a famous racer said on another thread here (and thousands before him elsewhere), "It's the torque...."

[Blurredvision]

Just to clarify a few things OBR184 has said. The sprintcar motor that was in their old car was a 4cyl rodeck, which are a chev smallblock split down the middle.
And the Cosworth motor is from a Sierra Cosworth touring car, two litres and with a BIG turbo. I have seen this car go and their is no doubt that it has the power, quite awsome!

[ntsqd]

Cosworth Sierra would be the YB then. Can easily believe those kind of numbers from one.

[FABRICATOR]

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