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      01-24-2020, 08:17 AM   #60
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Originally Posted by JamesNoBrakes View Post
Well, dynoing 425, yours probably has around 500 at the crank and the shelby is most definitely measured at the crank. Still not 760, but when you do the math with the dynos the crank HP should be significantly more. Also, you have a flat torque curve, which the shelby most certainly does not. Torque below the curve is what wins races and gives you the seat-of-the-pants experience. Putting down 760hp is another matter and on a road course, it's damn near impossible without radical mclaren-like engineering. The ZL1 has less HP, but beats it around a track because of these two factors, torque and handling (to put down the power). And it's not that the GT500 sucks around a track, it doesn't, but going that high with the HP increases the requirements for everything else if you are going to put down the power and take full advantage of it. It's an impressive machine, but I don't think it's much more than an M3 or M4, they are simply different machines.
The weight is the problem more than it having more HP.
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