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> You can sit more in the middle with people getting 1000hp daily drivers. With dynamic tuning, flex fuel, etc you can get the best of both worlds. As well, DCT
by PragmaticPulp 4y ago
> You can sit more in the middle with people getting 1000hp daily drivers. With dynamic tuning, flex fuel, etc you can get the best of both worlds. As well, DCT AWD transmissions make grip/shifting issues a thing of the past.
> However, these middle ground drag cars can still get eaten by a $100k bone stock tesla
A 1000HP drag car with AWD and a DCT shouldn't "get eaten by" a $100K Tesla (unless you actually meant the $130K Tesla Model S Plaid). Not unless someone is lying about their power numbers or doesn't know how to set up a car.
The Tesla's drag mode is a neat party trick and perfect for singular drag races, but spending 15 minutes preconditioning your battery before you can launch is also kind of ridiculous by ICE car standards.
- Ralo 4y ago>unless you actually meant the $130K Tesla Model S Plaid Rounding error to $100k. Yes I'm referring to the Plaid. People have taken those cars and gutted the interiors on them, and demolished drag races. > spending 15 minutes preconditioning your battery before you can launch is also kind of ridiculous by ICE car standards. It's far from rare to see people setting up an array of box fans, and bags of ice around their engines to cool it off between passes. Many high high powered cars won't even have full size radiators.
- Grazester 4y agoIf a drag car is running on methanol with a solid block then you wouldn't have need for a full radiator since its only the engine head you might need to cool.
- zeusk 4y ago30% is rounding error??!
- 93po 4y agoIn a conversation around top fuel dragsters that cost $500k and a Tesla Plaid at $100k, yes, $30k is a rounding error and pedantic