tsx 200+ mph?

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Jul 4, 2006 | 04:39 PM

#41

savage

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Originally Posted by Dan Martin

Not to prolong this fantastic thread, but according to my calculator, you would need 364hp just to overcome wind drag at 200mph. That's not accouting for rolling resistance or driveline losses. Realistically, you would need somewhere in the area of 475 to 500hp at the crank to break 200mph in a TSX.

Just stick an LS7 under the hood and call it a day.

also beef up the suspension and tires to something that could handle the increased load and this is even after stripping the interior of everything but a racing seat, roll cage, and halon system...

Jul 4, 2006 | 05:23 PM

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mrpeeng

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ok so it is possible but just need money which is like every other car

Jul 4, 2006 | 07:50 PM

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CCColtsicehockey

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Originally Posted by mrpeeng

ok so it is possible but just need money which is like every other car

[mod edit]CCColts, he didn't post anything worthy of a working over so this was uncalled for.

Jul 4, 2006 | 08:14 PM

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Dan Martin

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Originally Posted by mrpeeng

ok so it is possible but just need money which is like every other car

Yes it's possible, but you'd be spending more on mods than your TSX cost. The engine build alone would probably be $20K-$30K. Not to mention that you'd lose the everyday drivability items like gauges, hvac, vsa, cruise control, etc...

Jul 4, 2006 | 08:38 PM

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gcjin2007

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it can prob be easily done with a only a lil bit of money. but the car will by NO MEANS be a daily driver. it would prob be a car designed to be taken on the utah salt flats. just fiddle with the coomputer, engine drop in, some underbody aero treatment and u sould be up there easily... its only about 50 mph... but doin this is only based on the fact that it is not a daily driver. the car is gonna have to be lowwwwww to the ground and stiff as hell

Jul 4, 2006 | 09:08 PM

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aaronng

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Originally Posted by tlbkcal

so if terminal velocity is 260 mph, does that mean it would take less than 2 seconds for the car to reach terminal velocity? (since 220 ft/sec/sec = 150mph/sec)?

Actually, he messed up. How the heck can acceleration be ft/sec cubed? lol...
If you take away wind resistance, the quickest the tsx will accelerate towards the ground is about 32.3 ft/sec/sec. That's the gravitational constant.