Our accountant at work seems to have lost the ability to add up. Which is a bit worrying. As it happens, he's got a well-established record of being full-o-sh1te. I thought you lot might find this funny.

 

He was telling me today he took his E36 M3, soft-top, nothing done to it except a heavy sound system, to a RWYB recently... where he ran a 12.5 sec quarter. In the same conversation, he said his 0-60 had dropped to 8 secs(!), because of the weight of the sounds.

 

Now it struck me that, during his 1/4, if he'd only hit 60 after 8 secs, it shouldn't be that hard to work out how far down the strip he'd run. I s'pose you'd have to assume he'd linearly accellerated(?!) up to that point to get the distance - not the best way. Is there better? It sounds like he'd have a heck of a lot of catching up to finish the rest of the 1/4 in just 4.5 secs.

 

A sudden burst of speed? A thousand shot of nitrous?

 

Just for fun (because obviously it's bull):

 

1. what speed would he have crossed the line at, to actually finish in 12.5 secs?

 

2. how much increase in power (eg. nitrous shot) would be required to accellerate this bucket of poo from 60 to the final speed?

 

 

I'm trying to stay off the subject of his (soon to be!) 600 bhp RS4. I assume that figure was plucked out of the sky since he heard my 300 would be (hopefully) 500+ bhp.

 

 

People who can look you in the eye and spout a constant flow of bullsh1te... how do they do it? How stupid do they think the world is?!

LMFAO talk about speaking from his rectum :D

 

If he carried on accerating at the same rate, after 12.5 seconds he would only be 2/3 up the strip - 273 metres :D He'd need to seriously accelerate to do a 12.5 second quarter. :D As in 43.2 mph per second :D:D:D

 

All assuming I aint fvcked up with my maths ;)

 

Its early and I smoked FAR too much weed since A level physics :D

 

CheerZ,

 

Andy

Quick calculation that I've not checked

 

1. 330 MPH

2. Basically the power output of the car required for the 0-60 section would have to be x6 to complete the second part of the course in 12.5 secs.

There was a 1/4 mile table on here a few weeks ago,you just had to punch in the cars weight.

 

Can't find it:rolleyes:

If he sat backwards in the drivers seat and removed the rear windscreen, then the amount of bullshit he spouts should easily power him through at 12.5seconds.

 

;)

Very well done all :) Just the sort of answers I was looking for. But still surprisingly surprising. On the face of it, I actually thought it could be possible with a /serious/ burst of power. But it sounds like we (you guys, actually) have proved not even Johnny Fartpants would be able to generate that sort of rear-end rush. I like the image tho: rear window out, huge stream of cack, car straining to stay on the strip.

 

Nitrous? No way. 60 to 330 mph in 4.5 secs?... maybe possible with an SRB strapped to the roof?! Or... and this is probably more plausible... he's running a secret custom flux capacitor that kicks in at 60 mph and delivers him to the finish line just in time. The real giveaway would've been the double line of flames left on the strip, of course. Just wish I'd been there to see it.

 

Sounds like he didn't even think it was that quick either. Maybe it wasn't running too good that day? :D