What can a 285 HP miata be compared to?
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What can a 285 HP miata be compared to?
It is hard to get a good idea of how fast things really are compared to thoer things sometimes so i thought i would pose this question. What cars would this be compared to? I know this one would be very rough, but what kind of 0-60 am i looking at? My car feels rediculously fast, but i have never driven anything else really fast other than this same car when it had 225hp.
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285 chp or 285 whp?
Look at it this way standard LT1 camaro comes with 285 chp and weighs 3400 lbs with driver etc. giving it a 11.92-1 power to wieght ratio. These have been known to run 14's
A foxbody mustang with 5.0 has 230 or so chp, and wieghs 3100 lbs on a good day. and is also about as fast as a LT1 camaro. 13-1
Your miata full of gas at 285 chp gives us. 2500/285=8.77-1 now if that is whp you get 7.46-1 this should put you into the 12's if you have the traction and shifting ability for iit.
This puts you in the range of stock c5 vettes, and vipers.
Look at it this way standard LT1 camaro comes with 285 chp and weighs 3400 lbs with driver etc. giving it a 11.92-1 power to wieght ratio. These have been known to run 14's
A foxbody mustang with 5.0 has 230 or so chp, and wieghs 3100 lbs on a good day. and is also about as fast as a LT1 camaro. 13-1
Your miata full of gas at 285 chp gives us. 2500/285=8.77-1 now if that is whp you get 7.46-1 this should put you into the 12's if you have the traction and shifting ability for iit.
This puts you in the range of stock c5 vettes, and vipers.
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with experienced instructors driving and Gary Shuhart in the miata, the TDR 260whp car at 2450lb runs neck and neck with a GT3, c6z, and steam rolls pretty much anything else at Motorsport Ranch.
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On Hoosiers, my slow Miata (170whp) was all over 2 GT3s (one stock, one RUF prepped). They would pull 3-4 cars on the straights and the Miata would be all up on their *** thru the corners.
Back on topic...
280whp = C5 Vette (320whp), MAYBE the C5 ZO6 (365hp)
It's not the whp, but the wtq that makes the difference here. You should laugh at just about any 4.6/5.0 Mustang unless he has FI or a HUGE shot. Other 5.7l cars (the heavy ones) will watch you pull away, unless they have a few bolt-ons or cammed.
In my 170whp Miata, I laugh at stock Stang GTs, and Mach1s (easily beat a cammed GT from 70 to 120), pull modded WRXs (not from a dig), and am even with STi/Evo8s (intake/DP, again, not from a dig).
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i run Toyo T1Rs. can't run anything with a stiff side wall of the car just skips along bumps and breaks loose too easily. Since I'm in NJ I gotta wait till spring to bring it to the strip. For that I have Mickey Thompson bias drag tires.