How do you know if you have enough horse power?

[porsche917]

This great image and comment comes from Audi Sports great German rally and Trans Am driver Walter Rohrl.  All these drivers talk about wanting more horsepower.  This is a great way to determine if you have the right amount.

[Mitleid]

hmmmm I have never had enough horsepower 

[Autorama]

I recently saw a “car” that I wouldn’t even try driving. Here it is:

 

[Mitleid]

that is pretty scary what do ya think was running through his mind at the end of the video 

 

[RichC]

Must be a Diesel the way it spits out black smoke.  The wet pavement doesn’t help his tire grip.

[Mitleid]

IT IS A FOUR BANGER AHHHHHHHHHH 

The Toyota Tacoma Pikes Peak can hit 60 MPH in 1.6 seconds thanks to a 1,000 HP 2.1-liter engine. But it’s only geared to do 132 MPH.



The “truck” was built and driven by New Zealander Rod Millen (Rhys’s dad) for the 1998 Pikes Peak Hillclimb. The vehicle has nothing in common with the Tacoma and is, in fact, built on a chrome-molly tubular space frame chassis covered in a carbon fiber body. Power is generated by a 2.1-liter, four-cylinder, turbocharged and intercooled engine pumping out something in the neighborhood of 1,000 HP. It can hit 125 MPH in 4.9 seconds. With this “truck” Millen won the Pikes Peak Unlimited class in both 1998 and 1999.

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