Are you guys already signed up for Vegas? What would be the cut off date if you aren't able to get the track time in that you need? I mean if you don't have it dialed by the middle of Oct. that would be cutting things way close. That wouldn't give you any time to repair anything if need (hopefully hat won't be needed) or make any major changes if you feel it's needed. Right now you have a couple months but, of course you need time to dial it in and the weather is probably going to start getting worse soon. Just curious how the time line looks for you guys.
Hey Royce, wanted to give you a little update, I just got back from vacation and I've been swamped at work (just wrapping up my recent job/project) so I have been off the board awhile.
We tested the weekend before last with the Vette and finally got some good data to get it dialed in on, even on a VERY marginal track (it's a small town track, old airstrip with no guardrails
.....) we went a couple of 7.60's in the low 180's on one system blacktracking the 1/4, tried the 2nd system to see if we could stick.....we couldn't.
Got some good video finally too that told us a few things about the launch, we are in the 1.10 to low 1. teens in the 60', about a .1 off what it should be and we have a pretty good idea why now, wheelie bar height.
Even though we are not anywhere near where we should be we felt real good, we are definitely closing in on it now. In fact I just got off the phone with my buddy and we got to talking about where we are, we have exactly 11 passes on the car since the complete re do, I guess that might have something to do with not having it nailed down yet. We are catching it though.
I feel like on a track like Vegas right now we would stick 2 systems, it will go LOW 7's on one we think, so it's right there in the class on two and we have a third for backup. We are pretty pumped all in all, and are going to try to hit Canada 1 more time this weekend, it gets well prepped (sometimes) so we should see where we are at.
Oh, by the way, the testing was done on 10.5W's........ Yep we switched horses mid stream. The old tires where dead and needed to be replaced and after talking about it we decided though the car has a shot at being (eventually) competetive in pro street we just had no where near enough time tuning it yet and the season is ending, the leaves are falling here in the Pacific Northwest. So we are going to run Outlaw 10.5 again. If we get the car going close to right even at weight we should be competitive, at least we hope, and it does seem to work so far with the 10.5's, they are a pretty amazing tire.
So in short (yeah right
), it looks pretty good for us going to Vegas even though we are cutting it close, I'll keep you posted!
