Old Aug 14, 2005 | 12:43 PM
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Originally Posted by Matt
Originally Posted by rapidcossie
Originally Posted by EIL132
How can you generalise losses? If so an Audi A3 Quattro looses 100bhp, therefore it has only 80bhp at wheels? And a mini with 38bhp has about 8 bhp at the wheels. How does it get up hills
that seems to make sense....
makes absolutely no sense at all

you can generalise with a percentage not a fixed figure!!!

using the losses from a 330hp escort on a sub 100hp 4*4 would be clever - how the fuck can it have minus bhp at the wheels

the losses are heat, the more the bhp, the more the heat, the more the loss
I was getting at everyone is using xbhp figures Indeed loss is heat, why almost every car is different
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