one80out@hotmail.com wrote:
> Background: This is the fourth edition of Popular Hot Rodding's EMC.
> This year it's stroker big blocks to a max of 514 ci. The engines
> were to have been built by approximately mid-July. Then all the
> entrants are to meet at a dyno facility, do some warmup pulls, then
> do three pulls for the money. Scoring is based not on peak output.
> Rather, the hp is recorded at various rpm points from 2500 to 6500,
> added, and divided by the total number of samples. The same for
> torque. The two averages are added for a final score. So a 650 hp
> average and a 600 lb-ft average would make a 1250 score.
It sounds like a piss-poor scoring method to me. Take the horsepower figures
out of the equation and it becomes a valid comparison.
