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Power to weight ratio (non tiger)

To: tigers@autox.team.net
Subject: Power to weight ratio (non tiger)
From: "G Shaw" <emmakita@hotmail.com>
Date: Mon, 20 Aug 2001 13:40:12 -0400
Hi

I know that the engineers on this list will have an answer for this. Last 
night on a repeat of "Junk Yard Wars" an expert said that the power to 
weight ratio that we all know is so important in making cars go fast is not 
a simple relationship of dividing one number by the other. He said that as 
the weight doubles the power need quadruples. If this is so then a 200 hp 
2000lb car would be twice as fast as a 400 hp 4000lb car, no? Is this true?

Greg

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