Ok I searched around a little for this. I am curious how much power it takes for a full weight street car to run the 1/4 mile at various times.

How much power to go

12's
11's
10's
9's

How much time does weight saving net you?

say for every 100lbs how much can you cut off your time?

 

For every 100 lbs, ROUGHLY .1 sec, so 200 lbs is generally worth .2, etc. This is only a general guidline. The original question of how much power does it take to go xx:xx can be answered mathematically by several websites. A good one that also uses barometric pressure, temperature, humidity and other factors can be found at sccoa. I personally think the .1 is a little 'high', but not by much.

 

Fixed your link as it didn't work http://www.sccoa.com/faq/dragetcalculator.html

 

this one is a lot simpler

http://www.dsm.org/tools/calchp.htm

 

Cool, Ill check it out, thanks

 

Thanks for fixing it evil_eagle.