nuro

i'm curious what a car-length of distance between two cars at the end of a 1/4mile means as far as time is concerned? basically, one car-length = ? seconds?

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jnkoh

I would estimate 0.5 seconds.

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pushVTEC

I heard 1 second difference in the quarter = 10 car lengths.

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cantdrive55

I car length at 90 MPH isn't much. Figure a car is about 15 feet long (roughly) there are 5280 feet in 1 mile, so 475,200 feet an hour, 7920 feet per minute, 132 feet a second. Thus, dividing 15 by 132, you get .11 seconds, which is a rough estimate, assuming both cars are traveling at 90MPH. PushVTEC is pretty close. 1 second would work out to about 10 car lengths.

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mtu_TypeSH

So from the car mags, a 95 VTEC hit 100 in 17.6 seconds, and a 97 SH does in 19.0 seconds...(I know different times, different test, etc..) how many car lengths does that come out to?

Smahatma

528000 feet per hour, 8800 per second, 146.67 per second
soooo 2.4 seconds is 352 feet, or 23.467 car lengths

ZMonkey11

like 4 buslengths!!!

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mtu_TypeSH

Just wondering..Thanks.

cantdrive55

4th Gen > 5th Gen to 100 by a football field and a half.

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