new theory

[tnord]

Man, you don't check the boards for a couple days and look what you miss out on.  Anyway, i have a new (at least new to me) theory on judging on whether a particular modification will actually make it faster.  If you took 2 dyno charts, one before and one after the modification, and using calculus, found the area under the curve (hp,torque, or a combination of both, i don't really know), for each chart and compared them, the one with the most area would be the faster car wouldn't it?  This method would take into consideration losses in low end in exchange for gains in high end.  Of course you can consider RPM ranges as well.  Like when racing you never really dip down below 4750, so you could just find area from there to 6250 to find which car will be faster on the track.  Just something i'd been thinking about lately.

[kitoro]

it's "simple" math.
i already learnt that after i was reminded that a dyno chart should be compared to a normal distribution graph.
at least you figured it out urself.
i dun think i would've figured it out very quickly if i did it myself.

[Grant]

f**k calculus. lol.. It's all abotu statistics (well i nearly failed pre-calculus so.. haha..), but yea, i think that's the usual method.

(Edited by Grant at 4:21 am on Jan. 2, 2002)