One of my examples was when I was working as a math expert for some lawyers. They were talking with great awe about a Porsche. I calmly said, “I’ll run a any street legal Porsche any time for money, marbles, or chalk.”

A lawyer answered with disbelief as if I had a rocket sled: “What have you got.”

I answered, “Just an old, rusty Chevy Camaro, 1969, … 396.”

I let there be a pause before the “396” because in terms of Euro cars that’s 6.5 liters, and Porsche long had a tough time getting over 3.0 liters. Next, the 1969 Camaro 6 cylinder had a curb weight under 3000 pounds. So, my 386 and Turbo 400 transmission and 12 bolt differential started under 3000 pounds, and a Porsche was likely little or no lighter than my Camaro. So, my Camaro had ballpark the same weight but twice the engine displacement plus some. Also the Camaro had a GM Quadrajet carburetor: It was essentially a “four barrel” carburetor except better. The primaries were intricate and small to give better fuel economy, but the secondaries were not really a carburetor but an air valve with no real Venturi and, instead, something like a bucket of gasoline to be poured into the intake manifold. For a drag race, which is what I intended, the Turbo 400 transmission had a torque multiplication of IRCC ballpark 9:1 at stall, that is, standing still (right, where, IIRC from my course in Maxwell’s equations, a series wound electric motor such as maybe Tessla is using has, from the math, infinite torque).

Lesson 1: The EU gets all excited about car engines with small ones, pistons that is.

Lesson 2: I had a good chance of winning such a drag race.

Lesson 3: Lawyers are vulnerable to getting all impressed with EU style stuff while ignoring basic mechanical engineering.

GM and Chevy have made progress since then. Now can get a Chevy small block with about 6.0 liters of displacement with Roots style supercharging, an Eaton intercooler, and direct fuel injection. Put one of those puppies in a relatively light old Chevy Camaro, Nova, or Chevelle, and a little rust might help the scam, and go driving hoping to find a lawyer proud of his Porsche!

http://themusingsofthebigredcar.com/tortilla-wrap-engineering/

Work your own angle, but get down there and see if you can assemble one.

BRC
http://www.themusingsofthebigredcar.com