hi
i was wondering how much horsepower some of the faster single cylinder cars got on the land and sea dyno in Detroit, i heard RMIT had around 55 hp , does anyone have any info on this subject



Jude Berthault
ETS Formula SAE

hi Jude

we drive our car with a 78 hp Rotax single cylinder engine and this year we hope to go up to ~90 hp. Just put a supercharger on the single cylinder and it works perfectly.

Brunel was weighing in with an immense 30ish bhp from a standard yamaha wr450 for Formula student and FSAE italia. despite the red bull sponsored graz missile car having over 90bhp and a well trained up driver, our lap times were about 4 seconds slower. our drivers trained by driving a van to the event in italy (well and an hour or two in a car park in the week before, and formula student).
it's not all about big hp figures at all