Acceleration Data

[tom1394racing]

Now that I've completed my RSR Clone project, I've got too much time on my hands.

So out of curiosity, I decided to see how my car's acceleration numbers compared to other cars we are all familiar with. I went out with a buddy last week and did some stop watch trials to get some acceleration figures for the car. To get an idea of what to expect, I constructed an empirical curve of 60-100 mph elaspsed times vs peak HP/curb wt.


I used road test results obtained from a variety of sources. While we all know that gearing and the HP distribution play an important role, it was surprising to me how well the acceleration data correlated with peak HP/curb wt. MY RSR clone with my 250 lb friend aboard correlated pretty well with the rest of the data.

I figured that many of you would appreciated the data and would provide lots of educated comments.

[dean]

Hi Tom

I am curious as to how you did the test. I assume you were accerating hard while going past 60 mph instead of cruising at 60 then punching it? For me second to third shift is at 62 mph. It looks like your car is around 7 seconds? Is that correct

Dean

[tom1394racing]

We did the tests by accelerating from 50 to 100 mph. Most of the comparison data was taken from road test acceleration results where the 0-60 mph time was subtracted from the 0-100 mph time. My results for 60 to 100 were around 6 sec.