Unfinished Business

[ALMACK]

Originally Posted by GTS340

I enjoyed watching. Specially Warren and how he squeezed out everything The car had. I think it was "Ace's car that was smoking on every run. Big Daddy is still in great shape and working hard. His car was a Dud though.

I noticed that smoke on Ace's car.

What puzzles me is the e.t. difference from all of those "identical" 4 door family cars.

I could understand a 5 to 8 tenths spread due to production variances and also whether or not the driver power braked the convertor all the way at the line.

But there was over a 2 second spread in e.t. between those cars.
More telling is the mph spread.

If I was one of the drivers and power braked the heck out of it at the line and the best it could run was 17's and others were running mid 14's, I would be ticked.

JMO

[Myron Piatek]

Did the cars have tachs? I wonder if some just left it in drive and/or some tried shifting manually by "feel" or trying different shift points. You'd think that they would at least give them a test session in the cars before "qualifying" just to get acclimated.

[Jim Caughlin]

Well, if I was a 'legend' and I was going to be paid to be on national television and didn't want to look like I didn't know what I was doing, I would have done several things:
1. Rented a duplicate car weeks ahead of time and ran the wheels off it in testing.
2. Hired one of numerous sportsman driving school instructors to help me.
3. Deep staged the crap out of it.
4. Matted the throttle trying to get it to react quicker.
5. Shifted it manually to see if I could pick up any ET.

Better yet, I would have hired any one of numerous sportsman racer (who are much older than anyone in this group and still seem to be racing competitively) to stand in for me as a ringer. Pete Kost among others comes to mind.

[CMcAllister]

Before it's all over, they'll be finishing the sportsmen on Saturday so they can get the Pros, Alcohol, monster trucks, jets, motorcycle daredevils, Benny the Bomb and the TV show done on Sunday. Butts in the seats is job one.

[TOSTO RACING]

I thought it was pretty cool seeing those guys back out there !

[The Hawk]

Originally Posted by TOSTO RACING

I thought it was pretty cool seeing those guys back out there !

And the Legends all looked like they were having a good time!

[Mike Gray]

Originally Posted by TOSTO RACING

I thought it was pretty cool seeing those guys back out there !

What would be even better and would get me to watch would be to run them again in a few months but let them take the cars home until then and bring them back as run what you brung! LOL

[Chris1529]

Maybe some were "powerbraking" too hard. Even bone stock converters will have a little bit of flash at start unless you cram it past the point it will still flash.

Still a wide range of ET's for those cars. Probably is very hard to launch a street car on a .400 pro tree anyway.

Originally Posted by ALMACK

I noticed that smoke on Ace's car.

What puzzles me is the e.t. difference from all of those "identical" 4 door family cars.

I could understand a 5 to 8 tenths spread due to production variances and also whether or not the driver power braked the convertor all the way at the line.

But there was over a 2 second spread in e.t. between those cars.
More telling is the mph spread.

If I was one of the drivers and power braked the heck out of it at the line and the best it could run was 17's and others were running mid 14's, I would be ticked.

JMO