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Chris n nic said:
but I have seen people say before on the forum that Neils car has some sort of mystical power to weight that belies its state of tune. I would prefer to use more of a scientific approach.
MarkM said:Mine was a camera with a wide angle lense taped to the top of steering wheel.
Chris my 30-110 video included a change up to 4th at just over 90 and I only used just over 7000rpm, as far as I can see you were useing 8000rpm and didnt change to 4th and didnt make 100mph?
Not sure what you`re getting at there m8? :S I wasn`t doing it as a comparison but just to see how it is running. It is defo not as quick as it used to be and obviously the temp gauge is having a funny do as well. I never said anything about 100mph...there was a bend coming up on the track and I thought better of banging round it with one hand.
A better test of the engines flexibility is 30-90 in 3rd. This rules out revs (8000rpm will see your engine go bang eventually and I imagine you dont use it everyday) and any ability to get it off the line (which I dont have)
TBH I`m not too bothered about flexibility...if I want to over take someone then I`ll change to the gear best suited...can`t overtake someone signaling that I`m not going as quick as poss but using my immense torque.
Not to get into to much of an argument but the simple laws of physics dictate, especially in the same cars, that a higher power to weight ratio will give higher acceleration. You guys claiming your slightly modded approx 180bhp cups are faster then my car which has very high torque figures, in the real world probably isnt the case.
Can`t remember saying that it is faster...in fact I know it isn`t...but when running right it won`t be a far off
I am sure this comment will enrage Neil
Fair play with the qtr times though but you would really need to run them consistently over the year at different strips.
How many different tracks would it take tho...Crail is allegedly "down hill"...York isn`t professional enough...the pod has varying levels of grip from one day to the next blah blah. It`s like me saying that your speedo vid is quick but unless you show us on different days on different roads in different conditions then it doesn`t count?!
I am just going to mentally prepare myself for the onslaught this will provoke!
northy said:we need a williams version rob... just to make chris's look slow
??FlamingMonkey said:hehe somebodys upset there car isn't as quick as it should be
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