Couple of cool videos

[Mongrel]

These vids are sick. Keep in mind that the video car following is a Dodge Viper(except for the Supra race).

http://www.svtperformance.com/forum...;threadid=70196

when you download the videos, right-click and save as. some take a while to open

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Hallo Mongrel,

 

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[Mongrel]

anybody watch them?

[LateNightCable]

If there is any kind of brain work involved beyond a couple of clicks, people won't watch them.

A big " page cannot be found " is a big turnoff.

[Mongrel]

hmm... worked a little while ago...

[GIR]

I bet it wasn't because there's a hug chunk missing from the link.

[Mongrel]

okay, try this http://www.svtperformance.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=70196 remember, right-click and save as.

[GIR]

Big truck, big wheels, lots of traction, lots of power, no topspeed and no handeling. And that's all i gotta say about that.

[Mongrel]

thats probably the same thing the guys in the cars racing it were saying right before they got owned

[GIR]

You know I'm getting sick of this, it's always the same old same old with you guyz. Let me analyze the videos for you, because you clearly are unable todo it for yourself.

As you can see the truck has lots of traction (bigwheels) and lots of low end power like all trucks do, why do trucks have lots of low end power... you figure it out.

Because it has allot of low end power and lots of traction the truck shoots away like it's nothing but when it comes to building up speed, forget it. The race is too short for the other to catch up but they're on the tail of the truck right before end.

Judging from the road markers they're not goin all that fast, tops 60 - 70 mph. not really something I would call fast.

And ofcourse not to forget that they're standing still on a highway. Too bad nobody is driving there that night. Hopefully one night somebody will be driving there and ram those lewsers from behind. My only hope is that nothing happens to the driver.

TO sum it up. Yawn. Make the track a bit longer see what happens.

[thepolarfoxqx]

i know lots of trucks that could own me to 30 or 40, some to 60 or 70, none that own me to any speed past 100 (barring some sort of lightening). It's just the layout, and a lightening may keep up with my boxster to 60, but to 100 or 120, he gets owned.

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Hallo Mongrel,

 

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[Mongrel]

the guy in the lightning went all the way up to 110, not 60 :roll:

[GIR]

I highly doubt it. If they're doing 1/4 mile runs his best run lasts 21 secs.

f(t) = 60/((t*4)/60)

f(21) = 42.85 mph

or in other words

21 secs per 1/4 mile * 4 = 84 secs per mile

84 secs per mile / 60 = 1.4 mins per mile

60 mins in hour / 1.4 mins per mile = 42.857142857142857142857142857143 miles per hour.

His average speed was around 45 mph, I highly doubt his topspeed would be 110mph. His topspeed was 70 - 80 mph at best (and I'm giving him a huge margin because of all the lose variables).

[Mongrel]

who said anything about 1/4 mile and topspeed, he wasnt running the quarter, they were just racing, and i doubt it tops out at 110 considering the regular lightning goes all the way to 148 and this one has 450 hp and more than 500 lbs of torque

[GIR]

Uhu...

You said something about topspeed... remember... just 2 posts up... where you say it went upto 110 mph.

Ofcourse they didn't do a 1/4 mile run. Heck if they didn't prearange a set distance (1/4 mile pretty standard in the US I think) then I think it's pretty cowardes of the Lightning driver to slam the breaks everytime the other cars catch up as if he reached the finish line.

Anywayz you seem to know the races in the videos into the details, I wonder were you there?

And ofcourse the regular truck can do 145mph, heck the 1.8l turbodiesel delivery trucks we have at the company can do 180km/h (112mph) when they're fully loaded, doesn't mean they can get there in a hurry though.

The distanced they traveled is just around 1/4 mile and the very generous calculated topspeed of 70 - 80 mph is still in effect. He never reached the 110 marker in those movies.

[Mongrel]

like i said eariler, i never said anything about topspeed, i said he shut down at 110. and he goes a little faster in the quarter than 70-80, i can do that with ease in my little 3.8 liter t-bird, a stock lightning will go a little over 100 in the quarter. and maybe if you read the tread about the race at the link provided, you might know as much as i do j/k

[Mongrel]

besides, i dont think they were going 75, no matter what you think about the lightning, you know that a tt supra and a viper are faster than that, and the lightning owned them all, and the viper on three different occansions

[GIR]

I shut off at about 110. If I kept going he most likely would have caught me.

That just proves my point doesn't it, when it gets over 70 mph then the cars will be faster.

Anywayz I really don't believe you or him when you say it was upto 110mph. The amount of time and distance traveled both refute that fact.

[Mongrel]

it has almost 500hp!!! it was a whole 20 seconds from the start, he could easily acheived that, considering it does 0-60 in 5.2 stock he was probably running only around 4.7 to 60, which gives him around 15 seconds to get from 60 to 110. thats plenty of time

[GIR]

You know a friend of mine is a truck driver and his Volvo truck has over 550 bhp. Too bad it doesn't go over 50mph and takes a longtime to get there.

Read some of the topics on power output and torque. Like said on so many ocassions bhp doesn't say anything about topspeed or acceleration.

[Mongrel]

You know a friend of mine is a truck driver and his Volvo truck has over 550 bhp. Too bad it doesn't go over 50mph and takes a longtime to get there.

whoopie doo, i bet you fell spiffy now :roll: thats why volvo dosent have the worlds fastest truck and ford does...

he just owned a viper 3 times, and do the math. he is in the 4s on 0-60 and that gives him over 15 seconds to get from 60-110. that is plenty of time. i dont think that vovlo could take a viper. i think you guys dont like the lightning cause it would own ya'lls

[GIR]

Once again you've proven you have no idea what you're talking about. My friend drives around in a Volvo FH16.

http://www.volvo.com/trucks/global/en-gb/trucks/volvo_FH/volvo_FH16/Volvo_FH16.htm

Like I said 550bhp and 1,000 Nm torque but barely gets over 50mph, don't you feel al little silly now. And FYI Volvo makes the worlds fastest trucks. Just look at the NH12 which is being used alot in Australian mining operations. It can do upto 90mph with 68 tonnes strapped to it's back.

I don't have high regards of the cars he's batteling against anywayz so ur kinda preaching in the open air.

Anywayz, what did you learn today?

[Mongrel]

Like I said 550bhp and 1,000 Nm torque but barely gets over 50mph, don't you feel al little silly now. And FYI Volvo makes the worlds fastest trucks. Just look at the NH12 which is being used alot in Australian mining operations. It can do upto 110mph with 68 tonnes strapped to it's back.

well according to guiness book of world records, your wrong. it named the lightning as the fastest production truck. and just because your friends volvo cant hit 50 mph, does that mean the lightning cant? just becuase it is a truck, doesnt make it slow.

Anywayz, what did you learn today?

that you are biased towards the lightning because it is fast?

[GIR]

Oh god... are you really that blind or just plain old dumb. What I'm trying to say and what you're apparently not getting is that the the amount of horse power a car has doesn't say anything about it's topspeed, will you get that in your mind already!

The Volvo FH16 is a truck for hauling goods... you know as in toot toot out of my way, coming through with the goods. It has a 16.1 liter V6 diesel engine with 550bhp and can haul upto 110 tonnes of goods, but it doesn't go any faster then 50mph.

The Volvo NH12 is a 12 liter V6 diesel engine with 380bhp and it can haul upto 86 tonnes of goods at a max speed of 90mph.

Now the the FH16 has more bhp so according to your saying it should be faster right? wrong!

Check out the other thread in the misc forum about the Guines book of records. You'll find out the Guines book of records holds the record for biggest amount of factual errors in a publication.

What you should've learned is that the amount fo bhp a car has is not related to it's topspeed and not to open your mouth before you know all the facts because clearly you still don't seem to know that the FH16 is a truck for hauling goods and not a pick-up truck.

No go get a stopwatch, time the distance between 2 set landmarks and calculate what the actual speed was. You'll see that the average speed was no more then 50mph and the topspeed couldn't have been over 80 mph.

But you probably won't because you're too blindsighted and too unobjective to actually face the facts, you'd rather keep on living in your dreamworld. Keep on dreaming on.

[Mongrel]

where in my posts did i say "the more hp the lightning has, the faster it will go"? and when was the last time you say a truck go 147.8 mph? never until the lightning (i have the picture if you really want it)

50 mph? what kind of crack are you smokin man??? and a top speed of 80? so you are saying that in 20 seconds that a modified lightning will only hit 80? not to mention the supra and viper who were behind it? you must be the one in the "dreamworld"

[Mongrel]

here is the picture that guiness used, although you will probably will think it is fake... :roll: