drbelanger73
Beer is good for you.
Another key factor is the salt flats themselves... its NOT hard pack pavement. it's like driving on marbles. it has a ton more rolling resistance than smooth pavement and offers a ton less traction. Accelerating to 100 with a high powered car will be a challenge.... basically lighting up 1,2,3,4 like they are all first gear, and thus wasting acceleration time and distance. It might take you a full mile to do what you can do in the 1/4 on pavement.
Traction
That is something I am going to have to experiance out on the salt. I have to wonder how much horsepower is the limit. Pursuant to what you had said earlier, 200mph is probably going to put an Integra beyond street legal if it is going to be achieved. But at that point I will have done the 130/150 and probably be obsessed with the idea.
I will be asking a LOT of questions when I finally get out there for the 130 run.
All the horsepower in the world is going to be useless if I cannot apply it to the ground. I am no physicist, but I have to wonder if lightening the car as much as possible is going to help. With the horsepower needed to actually get to 200 something is going to have to compensate for the shifting nature of the salt underfoot. Do they make speed rated snow tires ?
I am under the impression that downforce created by a spoiler is greater in the rear of the car than the front.
Has anyone ever built a rear wheel drive Integra?
Though at that point it would really be some monstrosity of a honda blasting down the salt, not an Integra...