FATS Times?

[sleepydsm]

Whats the point of modding your car for performance reasons if you don't want to really race it?

[CVD]

It almost makes sense. Drivetrain and gearing dont matter, its like an E-frumroll. Something anyone can do with a stopwatch, and unlike a 0-60 time or whatever its harder to fuck up by being a shitty driver or not having stopwatch skills. So I can see why they do it, but like Tom said its just more pointless benchracing.

[Shotgun!]

Stopwatch=retarded errors.
AEM log=something to talk about.
For Audi guys (ei people that don't know how to drive to the drag strip) this sounds great.

[JET]

Yeah, then why don't we all just dyno and then calculate power to weight ratios ;).

Unfortunately that doesn't work. I had an engineer buddy who was dead set on that idea. He thought a bike was invincible, which on paper it is. We all know that is not true in real life.

[scheides]

Yea, the time is calculated with a logger, so you can get an exact time instead of something with a stopwatch where you'd get some amount of error. Yes, this is another way to benchrace, I was just wondering people's opinions about it. :)

[niterydr]

Alright then. 5000-7300 in 3rd gear?
Here is one at "29psi" on c-16..probably around 650awhp.
4996rpm. 10.47psi, 55.78mph 3:17.440 aem time
7043rpm. 28.58psi, 77.70mph 3:19.000 aem time.
So thats 1.56 seconds, am I cool? That is 2nd gear though, kind of close to a dsm's 3rd gear.

From the track on pump gas (11.8 run against Chris up at BIR).

5109rpm 8.661psi, 96.48mph 2:49.720
7105rpm 27.71psi, 128.8mph 2:53.400

So that is 3.68 seconds, 92 octane, about 500awhp.

Finally a 12.23@131pass, c-16 plus nitrous.

5047rpm, 7.681psi,nitrous on, 90.99mph 13:54.200
7031rpm, 27.45psi, nitrous on, 127.7mph 13:57.480

So that is 3.28 seconds.
So I pick up about 10mph per second.

[Shane@DBPerformance]

Do you rev higher than 7000 normally? You times are getting skewed by not even being full boost at 5000RPMs. 6000-8000 would probably be a better range for most big turbo guys.

[niterydr]

Do you rev higher than 7000 normally? You times are getting skewed by not even being full boost at 5000RPMs. 6000-8000 would probably be a better range for most big turbo guys.

Yeah I go to 8700rpm usually. Some of those logs are from the track and mapped out to 8k.
I could post 6k-8k, but I dont' want to screw up the readings ;).

[FattyBoomBatty]

am I cool?
That can't be determined by times. In fact, the jury is still out for you, bud.

[niterydr]

That can't be determined by times. In fact, the jury is still out for you, bud.

Badass, atleast the jury hasn't decided "not cool" yet!!