Car engine sounds.
Car engine sounds.
Last edited by CAMagnussen; 12-14-19 at 16:47.
Even if a heavier car makes better numbers (re: handling) the lighter one will feel more fun at lower speeds assuming it has good handling characteristics.
Porsche would beg to differ with the engines that go into their GT3 cars. Well, let me rephrase all of that... the 911 Carrera 3.0 RS had the same engine as the 3.0 L Carrera but Porsche essentially balanced and blueprinted it. Yet they claim it still had 231 bhp. (Yes, this was a long time ago). It was marginally quicker everywhere - and markedly so on throttle response.
I’ll say this: 99.999% of us who own sports cars cannot extract 75 percent of the capability of the car. If you think about it it really makes sense.
So what would I need with a Porsche 911 GT2 RS?
Not a damned thing.
If I fell into a $500M lottery win I would consider one but I know a Cayman GT4 would be the better purchase: handling, steering, throttle response and sound quality.
If I were still at Ford I’d push to pull weight out of the Mustang platform. I’d want the same brakes and suspension of the GT on one of the V6 cars and I’d take a good look at the air induction and exhaust to modify the Sound Quality.
It would sell like hot cakes.
Why?
Because we cannot use the power but we can play with the handling and it’s ALL perception!
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If you want to fully exploit the Vehicle Dynamics software (something damned few have the skills to safely approach the limits of anyway) you would want the steering position, throttle position, brake torque, engine torque/engine load, gear selected, yaw, pitch, roll, shock absorber load or the displacement of the piston in the shock absorber.
While that car will be potentially much easier to drive at the limit you and I could not fully exploit it anyway.
BTW, Ferrari has the best Vehicle Dynamics Software Package.
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big difference with two different engines where one is blue printed and balance yet nominally is the rated same horsepower.
What I'm talking about is they take the engine out of a Camry, put it in an Xb, change the tip in response, and all the boy racers think it's faster. Add a buzzy exhaust with 5-inch swollen tips and you're in business.
It's a common amateur fuel injection tuning mistake to oversize the throttle bodies, which gives you an exaggerated tip-in response. But has no effect on power.
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