Owning HP wakeup call

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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?
 
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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.
 
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All at one time...had no idea the Impala ran that many HP after they stopped the SS.
 
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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.
 
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I got a mud truck that gets me 3/4 there. The rest is easy.
 
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Why does it matter to them how much HP they have? Is that all they have to do? :ROFLMAO: :ROFLMAO:
 
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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. :confused:

Amazing what a few decades of technology can do.

:)
 
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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. :ROFLMAO:

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.
 
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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.
 
 
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