Quote Originally Posted by ThackerSS
Since when did HP / Litre win ANY race?

It is the dumbest argument, ever.
I really wish you would learn to stop selectively reading only the tidbits of information in a post that you wish to use to make yourself appear superior to others. Instead if you read the entire post, and learned how to make contextual connections with other posts, you might come off sounding like you had a f'ing clue what you were talking about. We weren't discussing who would win, we were discussing the efficiency of the engine. The comment was made that 330hp out of 6 liters was rather low. You said you made 371. Red GT said that the new GTs with a wimpy tune made 271hp on 3.8l. You still said you were better. I showed you that a Honda with a tiny turbocharge that would produce little to no lag could produce a HP/Liter efficiency that would smash your 6 liters into tiny coke-can bottles.

If I had wanted to remark on the ability to win races, I would obviously have to factor in some other variables, such as weight (The S2k weighs considerably less than the GTO) drivetrain (the S2k produces very little drivetrain loss, and has an excellently geared engine for track racing) and driver skill (The S2k is a much easier car to learn how to drive, is very forgiving and does not tend to brutalize the driver's mistakes as quickly.) In a Head's-up track race on any given track, I would say that your GTO and the example S2k I gave would produce a decent race, and that depending on the combination of straights and turns, you would have a fair chance of winning. A track like Road Atlanta tends to favor cars like the GTO with good power that can easily gain speed on the straights. A track like Sebring's Club Course would be quite difficult due to the flat, tight turns that are narrow and easy to overshoot. The GTO is a fast car, but pushrod V8's are anything but power-efficienct for their displacement. A car with the HP/liter ratio of my mildly boosted S2k example with 6 Liters would be producing 810hp. Obviously achievable for the GTO, but not with a small turbocharger. Instead some significant adjustments would be required to produce such power.