Since I’ve never been to Germany, would you accept a replay from Gran Turismo?

Technically, SAE certification just guarantees the engine is making at LEAST the advertised horsepower. They can advertise it lower than the actual all they want, there’s just no reason to.

Right, Dynojets are known to be a little optimistic, whatever this “Dynocom DC5000" is it appears to be even more so. Unless they’re just playing with the numbers.

If they do then it’s a very recent thing. Every dyno day or result I’ve seen, the average result usually falls right in line with the quoted numbers, especially on American cars.

It’s amazing how few of these people don’t know the meaning of the word “apex”.

That’s certainly a major factor. Don’t tell Jezebel, though.

Either their dyno or their atmospheric corrections are way off. GM and Ford tend to be pretty spot-on with their power numbers, they’re not in the habit of underrating their cars.

Yeah, their dyno is reading way high. Maybe they forgot to apply an atmospheric correction factor? Either way, there’s no way GM and Ford are undertaking these cars by that much. BMW? Maybe. American manufacturers are generally spot on with their claimed numbers.

This speaks to what is wrong with people in so many ways.

Yes, because that’s a cost-effective upgrade.

Pretty sure he does that fairly regularly already.

Is it just me or do some of these women sound incredibly desperate?

Did you mean to say “right”?

The only problem with this is that I already watched a video of a Carrera GT today, so this just sounds boring in comparison. Way to ruin things, Carrera GT.

Hitting the rev limiter is always a sin. It’s laziness and a lack of throttle control.

Yep, and that’s the main difference between the two. One requires going outside the manufacturer to really improve the performance, the other comes with the necessary hardware already, or it’s at least readily available.

Right, but continuing to set impossible goals then just reinforces the behavior of not trying to meet them. People realize that they don’t actually need to meet the goal, so it doesn’t encourage them to try any harder than they would in the first place. It’s crap psychology.

This whole “stretch goals” BS annoys the crap out of me. What’s the point of setting a goal you have no intention of meeting? How is that a motivator? How is anyone supposed to know what the real “acceptable” results are if your goals are set arbitrarily?

The only problem with this is the first thing people do with an E30 is rip out the engine and throw something else in, usually an LS (as evidenced by the car above). Mustangs may or may not have the engine swapped, but when they do it’s usually for a hotter Ford engine, not a Chevy (besides those few people who just…

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