Originally Posted By 6PakBee
I'm confused. Any good engine should have a brake specific horsepower number of around 0.5 lb/hp-hour. Assuming that an engine does more poorly than that at 0.7, at 600 hp that is 420 lb/hr of gasoline. At 6.07 lb/gal for gas, that is about 70 gal/hr. Why would you need fuel delivery rates over 100 gal/hr? What am I missing?


You aren't missing anything. Most high performance street engines need less than 50 gal/hour.