Posted: Fri May 20, 11 1:38 pm
Yep basically what we have here is a very trick out an out race car as with the Hemi, with race components, but without race weight/suspension/appearance saddled with standard bodies and with "standard tyres" . Basically 8 sec "proper" race cars as you and me would see them with 14" slicks and all the rest.
The real trick are those rear tyres as has been said, no matter how much power you take away from the initial hit through trick parts/retards etc, 1.52 60's is impossible with REAL polyglass tyres as I see it, (never tried it ), we are only doing 1.4's with 14" slicks at those et's. My 9.96 was a 1.45 I think with a total driver weight of approx 2990lbs.
How about a similar series here, guess we'd have to find the company/s who makes those special tyres, wonder how much they would cost.
credit to the drivers though, they've sorted it, and very impressive to the average fan, but when you understand whats really going on, well maybe not quite so amazing to me anyway.
If you could only use std displacement/CR ratios, suspension parts etc, then we'd have a true series but guess that would be dull for people with 11 sec et's or similar.
The real trick are those rear tyres as has been said, no matter how much power you take away from the initial hit through trick parts/retards etc, 1.52 60's is impossible with REAL polyglass tyres as I see it, (never tried it ), we are only doing 1.4's with 14" slicks at those et's. My 9.96 was a 1.45 I think with a total driver weight of approx 2990lbs.
How about a similar series here, guess we'd have to find the company/s who makes those special tyres, wonder how much they would cost.
credit to the drivers though, they've sorted it, and very impressive to the average fan, but when you understand whats really going on, well maybe not quite so amazing to me anyway.
If you could only use std displacement/CR ratios, suspension parts etc, then we'd have a true series but guess that would be dull for people with 11 sec et's or similar.