Prevost Acceleration Performance

[davidbrady]

Folks,

You may like this: HP Wizard. It's a set of simulators which allow you to explore the braking, acceleration, and overall performance of you bus.

Here's some input and output for my Prevost H3: http://www.wanderlodgegurus.com/gallery/...p?album=50





All you need to do is input values for you HP, vehicle weight, and a few other details that we can go over, or read the tutorials for some insight. Out comes:

Braking distance from 60mph: 161 ft,
quarter mile time and speed: 24.55s @ 54 mph
max speed: 94 mph, (limited by air and rolling resistance; gear ratios aren't taken into account),
0-60 mph times: 30.93s,
and more.

The simulator takes into account aerodynamic drag and center of lift, it also uses tire grip, rolling resistance, weight distribution, wheelbase, track width, and center of gravity height. It doesn't yet take into account final drive and gear ratios, but that's in the works. Nonetheless, the numbers look reasonable and fairly accurate against my driving experience. If you need help I can provide assistance in filling in these parameters.