G50 owners, do you think your car makes more than the suggested 276hp as per the gentlemens agreement?

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ln9
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G50 owners, do you think your car makes more than the suggested 276hp as per the gentlemens agreement?

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And if so, how much do you think it actually has, if you had to estimate from actually driving it? I don’t really care that much about horsepower in the long run, I was just wondering because I know the gentlemens agreement was often secretly surpassed.
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Re: G50 owners, do you think your car makes more than the suggested 276hp as per the gentlemens agreement?

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There are rumours all over the internet about how much power Centuries really make, but at least with my own car I don't think it's making any more than the factory numbers. It doesn't rev very high so horsepower is going to be lower than torque, relatively speaking (it's 340 lb/ft torque).

I have an Audi Q7 that weighs about the same as the Century - it has 360 lb/ft and the Q7 would definitely obliterate the Century in a drag race.

At some point I'll take it to a dyno day...
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Re: G50 owners, do you think your car makes more than the suggested 276hp as per the gentlemens agreement?

Post by supermaneuverability »

Yes, mine dyno’d at 303 wheel. It is entirely stock, 160,000 km. They are underrated, I think they make like 340 horsepower at the crank.
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Check out the official dyno curve… don’t you think the engineers are sandbagging? See the unnatural power curve compared to a nice torque curve? Doesn’t add up.
-Dave :mrgreen:
'99 century "misato"
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