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2020+ Shelby GT500 Mustang
Good take on racing a demon.
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<blockquote data-quote="Voltwings" data-source="post: 16299154" data-attributes="member: 155561"><p>Heat is the enemy on a road course and it is very, very difficult to manage 750+ hp worth of heat, let alone for 20+ minutes. I've been doing this a long time and have seen very few examples if it done well.</p><p>The problem usually is water is something like 6x better at absorbing heat than air; but by that same note that means it's that much harder to reject heat from liquid back to the air (in the form of a heat exchanger), so you need a LOT of fluid capacity and a LOT of surface area because once your fluid heat soaks you're basically done.</p><p></p><p>I'm not even being a fanboy here and saying the shelby can do it and the ZL1 can't, 750+ supercharged horsepower is the stupidest thing to try to take to a track day, but manufacturers stopped trying to sell to enthusiasts a long time ago and instead started selling towards magazines and bench racers... I'll hop off my soap box now.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Voltwings, post: 16299154, member: 155561"] Heat is the enemy on a road course and it is very, very difficult to manage 750+ hp worth of heat, let alone for 20+ minutes. I've been doing this a long time and have seen very few examples if it done well. The problem usually is water is something like 6x better at absorbing heat than air; but by that same note that means it's that much harder to reject heat from liquid back to the air (in the form of a heat exchanger), so you need a LOT of fluid capacity and a LOT of surface area because once your fluid heat soaks you're basically done. I'm not even being a fanboy here and saying the shelby can do it and the ZL1 can't, 750+ supercharged horsepower is the stupidest thing to try to take to a track day, but manufacturers stopped trying to sell to enthusiasts a long time ago and instead started selling towards magazines and bench racers... I'll hop off my soap box now. [/QUOTE]
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