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Originally Posted by Skoshi Tiger
You may not be able to tell the horsepower of the engine by it's looks but you can make an engine to a specification.
Plenty of we sites offering 2500HP Ford kits delivered to your door! If you can get it in a kit you can put it together yourself to the specification.
Makes my 300HP E49 265ci straight six Valiant motor seam quite inadequate 
Oh dear! The things you sacrifice by having kids! |
I know that well, you can use any kit that gives you a theoretical HP output, but it varies according to many factors. We're still talking about a lot of power of course, but it's the way it's put down that makes the difference, hence the importance of a dyno test, which can be accurate indeed if done with the adequate systems. You might be losing some HP here and there, so that's the added value of a measuring as accurate as possible.. but when someone who has one wants to sell me that it's actually a car that is good also for cornering or to use daily you can appreciate that one can only laugh at the delusion..
Kit cars are another interesting subject: before deciding to get me a Mustang I toyed with the idea of getting a Cobra kit, nowadays you can pretty much buy anything you want off the internet. A good mate of mine just got himself a Lancia Stratos replica kit and fitted a Busso 3.2 V6 to it, but the producers said they could virtually build him any engine mounts he wanted.
Anyways...