Hmmm, well not wanting to take anything away from my drag strip rivals, cos they are bloody great quarter mile times and wicked drivers, but quarters cant be taken as a direct comparison with 0-60s. There is a link, but not a direct one.
For example, scooters are sh*t, but theres one that does 13s every time at Santa Pod and it tops out at 70 or something. It seems weird but the ability to cover a fixed distance is not the same as acceleration capability. In actual fact the terminal speed of a car is a fairly good pointer as to how powerful it is, rather than the ET. Theres a big difference between crossing the line at 98 and crossing it at 102 because that last few mph is what is the hardest to achieve.
What you have to remember is that my quarter mile times - and my 0-60s -are done on everyday 205/40/17 low profile road tyres with stiff sidewalls. Running standard 15s with standard profile tyres makes an appreciable difference in launch because there is more give in them, and acceleration because you have lower gearing. Also since the Santa Pod times which were mailto:14.1@100mph">14.1@100mph, mine was remapped again but then by the time I was running at York the exhaust and turbo were blowing in at least two places and the boost had been turned down and it still crossed the line at 102mph. In fact one slip that I had was almost 104mph terminal speed. So, not wanting to claim something that wasnt true, but if everything had been running right, full boost available and mapped, all the joints tight and not losing pressure, and crucially, running on the stock 15s, I would have thought I would be in the mid 13s maybe up to 110mph...It had only been a couple of weeks before, with the boost turned down but no blowing from the turbo, that it ran the 5.57 at Donny South.
Anyway, if you want a much more direct comparison, what you need to compare is 0-60 and 0-100. There is a pretty clear correlation. Mine will do 0-100 in something like 13.8 seconds - on 17s. A tuned Williams wont. Its hard to time until you can actually achieve over 100mph at the line but at a guess if the Willys were talking about are hitting terminals of 97-98mph in the low 14s, then youd be looking at a minimum 0-100 into the 15s if not the 16s. Bear in mind the book figure on a Williams is something like 21 seconds.
The Willys were talking about have not had proper timed 0-60 runs so I guess until they do, we wont know. But I would expect something in the mid 6s to be honest. But one way or the other, they are damn quick, theres no denying that.
As far as Scoobies go, my actual target has always been to out-drag a Scooby whether on the road or on the track. I cant imagine it would be that hard.
