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Originally Posted by Jacky Treehorn
Take your new M3 and add your tunes, downpipes, bigger turbos. Get yourself 900hp. 3900lb car. It's my personal opinion that a 900hp M3 will not be the most versatile, well rounded vehicle anymore. It takes on a different character....it may be faster in the 1/4 mile than the original car, but it's no longer a balanced and well rounded vehicle in my opinion. Everyone is entitled to their own opinions, but I've been down this road before....and just because you have more horsepower and run faster 1/4 miles does not mean you run faster road-course times. It doesn't necessarily work that way. You do reach a point where the car can no longer effectively use that power unless you are using it in a straight line. Now if drag racing is your thing, have at it.
I also come from a motorcycle background. The guys with lower powered bikes often times would be turning better laps than dudes with these insane liter bikes. The liter bike has more power, more straight line speed....but they couldn't even tap into that power or use it. We use to make fun of those guys because their tires would have a giant flat spot in the center because all they do it go fast in a straight line....some of us don't view that as well rounded and prefer to use the full extent of the motor as it was intended.
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I think all of us would agree road racing is more fun than drag racing/stop light racing. But how much time do we spend driving at the track vs getting an opening in traffic to have some fun? For most of us, we can only do one of those with 98+% of our time in the car.
I've never seen a car get slower around a track with more power, ever. Even when you put the same pro rider on a 600cc and 1000cc bike, they almost always have better times on the 1000cc bike unless it's a super tight track and the weight advantage of the 600 matters more than power. You just have to learn how to modulate the throttle. It's not actually changing the balance of the car at all.
