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Old Jan 4, 2000 | 06:55 AM
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I am trying to find an equation to calculate an expected 1/4-mile time for my brother's mid-80's 302 V8 mustang. He gave me the weight and torque curve data with and without nitrous. Anybody know how to calculate the expected acceleration?
 
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Old Jan 4, 2000 | 11:48 PM
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Found this info in another posting. Check out this site: <a href="http://sura1.jlab.org/~grippo/auto_f.html">http://sura1.jlab.org/~grippo/auto_f.html</a>
There are plenty-o-formulas, (mostly for engineers,but) maybe one will help.
ps: the space between "auto" and "f.html" is an underscore.
 
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Old Jan 6, 2000 | 07:29 AM
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Thanks, the site has a lot of good stuff. Most of it is too complex for what I want, but they did have a table of 1/4 mile times and trap speeds for various horsepower and weight combinations. This is probably all I could get out of the simple fomula I was looking for anyway.
 
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Old Jan 17, 2000 | 09:31 PM
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Check out Performance Calculator at Rapidline.com
 
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Old Jan 20, 2000 | 07:08 AM
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Thanks,
Rapidline.com appears to cost money. But I found a free calculator at Prestage.com. There are a number of things you can calculate there. Also, somewhere I found a formula that gives results similar to that on Prestage.com.
 
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Old Jan 24, 2000 | 07:30 AM
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