lose weight gain horse power?

[Z-MAN]

I read in a modified mag article a while back that hey were doing a ek civic hatch build up and they stated that they calculated something like for every said amount of pounds that you take out you can gain horsepower is that true im really curious cause it kind of makes sense but any info would be helpful i really wanna find out if thats true thanks.

[aaronlosey]

stickers are a substitute for hp as well.



what they mean is your power to weight ratio gets better, but they are too retarded to explain it correctly. you gain no hp whatsoever from taking out weight. how the hell would you? your car will get faster and handle better.

remember you need to think when you take out weight, if you take it all off the rear of the car, you just throw the weight balance off and the car will handle worse, and have no grip on the rear to do nifty drag launches, or drive away from a stoplight in the snow/rain. if you take it all off the front, your left with a porsche : )

[JonnySlick]

two words:

racing scales