Owning HP wakeup call

[sea2summit]

Coworking from the UK was talking, I guess "a thing" among him and his friends was owning 1,000 HP by the time they were 40. Didn't matter how many engines or what type it took to get to 1,000 HP. Of course I had to start calculating...1,569 HP was what I came up with. Pretty respectable but then I counted all the engines it took to get there, 21. Three are purely recreational (dirt bikes for the children) but all the rest are for work, kind of shocked me a bit.

So figured I'd see what numbers everyone else has and if you think there's anything you could cut or want to add?

 

[MossRoad]

Are you talking 1000hp at the same time, or over a lifespan?

If you're talking cumulative to get to 1000hp, it was probably after my first 3 or 4. A few Nova's and a crazy uncorked 454 in a pickup truck. I was probably 26 years old by then. And I don't count my RD400, because it was never dyno'd after the modifications.

If you're talking at the same time, I had a 93 suburban with around 200, a 2003 suburban with 285, a 2013 Impala with 300, a 2003 Sable with 200, and a 2006 Malibu with 144, so that's a bit over 1100 all at once.

 

[sea2summit]

All at one time...had no idea the Impala ran that many HP after they stopped the SS.

 

[polo1665]

C7 Corvette GS - 460
Ram 1500 - 370
Volvo XC90 - 313
Honda Goldwing - about 110 I think
Branson 3510 - 35
John Deere X750 - not really sure 23 or 24 I think

1301 if I added correctly.

 

[workinonit]

I got a mud truck that gets me 3/4 there. The rest is easy.

 

[workinonit]

Why does it matter to them how much HP they have? Is that all they have to do?

 

[sea2summit]

I got a mud truck that gets me 3/4 there. The rest is easy.

I'm gonna need some pictures of that!

 

[MossRoad]

All at one time...had no idea the Impala ran that many HP after they stopped the SS.

Yep. That's something that I've discussed a few times over the years. Back in the 70s, you really had to mess with an engine to get 300hp out of it. Points, plugs, condensers, timing, headers, carbs, intakes, cams, etc....

Or, you can go down to a used car dealer and get used 2013-2014 Impala with 300hp in bone stock condition. A lot more dependable than those 70s cars too. And 29MPG on the highway at about 1500rpm. I think my Nova's would get about 14 at highway speeds. The 454 GMC pickup got 8.

Amazing what a few decades of technology can do.

 

[MossRoad]

Are you talking 1000hp at the same time, or over a lifespan?

If you're talking cumulative to get to 1000hp, it was probably after my first 3 or 4. A few Nova's and a crazy uncorked 454 in a pickup truck. I was probably 26 years old by then. And I don't count my RD400, because it was never dyno'd after the modifications.

If you're talking at the same time, I had a 93 suburban with around 200, a 2003 suburban with 285, a 2013 Impala with 300, a 2003 Sable with 200, and a 2006 Malibu with 144, so that's a bit over 1100 all at once.

However, that was when I was 60, not 40.

I don't think any combination of simultaneously owned vehicles and/or equipment would have reached 500hp, let alone 1000 at any point before that age.

 

[dodge man]

A 5.7 Hemi in my Challenger and the wife’s 300c plus a 5.0 in my F150 get me to about 1100hp. Throw in the tractor, small engines and the fact the Challenger isn’t stock and I’m around 1200 hp.

 

[Richard]

I drive a hybrid.... can I count it?

 

[dodge man]

NO!

I drive a hybrid.... can I count it?

 

[sea2summit]

I drive a hybrid.... can I count it?

Locomotives are hybrid so it’s possible…but I doubt it.

 

[MTGreen]

This got me thinking about how many engines I actually have and maintain which is considerably more than I would have guessed off the cuff. Then it makes me think that maybe torque should be counted for diesels instead of hp

 

[sd455dan]

I drive a hybrid.... can I count it?

Sure here is my new electrics "declared" HP

quite a bit short of my TA and close to the 455 powered RX 7
4 X the Kawi z900RS

That gets me 1400+ without the wife's AMX or two Cummins powered trucks what do we win?

Speeding tickets?

 

[Dftodd]

However, that was when I was 60, not 40.

I don't think any combination of simultaneously owned vehicles and/or equipment would have reached 500hp, let alone 1000 at any point before that age.

If you counted the kids vehicles...... then we smoked it. But at that point the kids were driving vehicles they purchased. Dodge Cummins, Nova, PT cruiser, Ford F150 v8, Chevy Tahoe V8. But the kids purchased their vehicles so I won't count it. We were sitting around 700hp at that point between my wife and I with the F150, Tahoe, and lawn, garden equipment.

Currently..... sitting around 500hp.

Trucks around 320hp, cars around 150hp, and a 27hp zero turn.

 

[ovrszd]

I have no idea.....

 

[BravoXray]

Back in the early 70s I owned three old Peterbilt cabovers that had 425hp 1693 CAT engines in them at the same time.
As far as cars go five cars by the time I was 20 totaled 1500hp.

 

[bigtiller]

A thousand HP by the age of 40? not even close here.

Even now, I top out at 650 and is probably the most I'll ever get....or want actually.

 

[mikester]

Coworking from the UK was talking, I guess "a thing" among him and his friends was owning 1,000 HP by the time they were 40. Didn't matter how many engines or what type it took to get to 1,000 HP. Of course I had to start calculating...1,569 HP was what I came up with. Pretty respectable but then I counted all the engines it took to get there, 21. Three are purely recreational (dirt bikes for the children) but all the rest are for work, kind of shocked me a bit.

So figured I'd see what numbers everyone else has and if you think there's anything you could cut or want to add?

Try adding up the cost of fuel you have used over your lifetime. Now look at how many tons of carbon you've dumped into the atmosphere.

I added it up for my 3/4 ton crew cab 6.6L V8 turbo diesel 6.5 foot box 4x4. I was averaging 14,000+ lbs of CO2 per year driving a 10,000 lb truck with an empty bed more than half the time.