ahh well why didnt someone just say that earlier... explains quite a bit.
what 60ft times are you guys racing at that doing?
do they lay any kind of track preparation down or sweep the track at race meetings?
cheers
Ryan
We just sorta turn up and race lol, no preperation, well if there was junk on the strip they'll clear that
0-60ft times on Hoosier Drag radials at the 1940s track is 2.0-2.1secs. At the other track same tyres 0-60ft is 2.2-2.3secs
the only way we cud find this mystery out is to sumhow get a british or irish EP over to malta, jamaica or oz or nz to see how they compare.
when i say track prep i mean do they lay down any VHT compound or anything?
2.0 is fairly fAST for a FWD car, im doing 13.2 with those 60fts so you must be loosing time somewhere, you cars a powerhouse !
when i say track prep i mean do they lay down any VHT compound or anything?
2.0 is fairly fAST for a FWD car, im doing 13.2 with those 60fts so you must be loosing time somewhere, you cars a powerhouse !
I launch with very low boost, think the car dynoed at 220hp with the boost I use. I'm not able to use my full power until 4th gear if the track had the VHT I'd prob be able to go full chat from 3rd gear.
None of the tracks over here use VHT
the only way we cud find this mystery out is to sumhow get a british or irish EP over to malta, jamaica or oz or nz to see how they compare.
and thats wat spuddy was runing last event 13.2-3s with same 60ft yea?but the other thing is he was wat?400bhp and you with your ct9 is wat?200bhp?somtings a mis here
That explains alot then. its almost definitely down to the grip levels available.
one of the main reasons my own car does good times for a ct9 is the extreem levels of torque i spent hours trying to extract from the engine/turbo set up experimenting with different carbonations to get the desired levels.
haha i was about to say if i win lotto ill chuck my car in a container and ship it over there to see what times i can do on your tracks. but i think the better way to go would be you guys to come here and have crack on a decent track.
the funny thing is though when a maltese tuning crew go to race at santa pod they always run better times there than on our local track..so it makes me wonder if there are other contributing factors.. mainly their tuners tuning too safe & tuning "circuit style" not for drag... an ep not tuned down a strip will never clock a decent time, perhaps the best thing we have here is the lack of dyno's.. its all about tuning around time slips
kon
thats mainly what im trying to establish here as well.
track conditions at other tracks apart from santa pod sound average at best. but i have heard people say that the pod is a good track, and i have seen a few fwd cars on youtube doing good 60ft times etc there plus it looks like a really good facility. so why is it that we hardly ever see fast times from starlets there... is it that no one from this site races there? is it not accessible easily or to far away? what times have high powered starlets acheived at that track?