Test & Tune Pricing

[CBS]

Originally Posted by jeff conley

Every Thursday (it's called Rock's Rental) before our 1st Friday of each month Friday Heads Up Series Race we have a proffesional test session from 12pm-8pm one lane prepped. Pro Mods all the way down to NHRA stockers show up every month cost is $100 Track is fully prepped for maximum traction.

Rock's Rental????

Do I get a discount...?

[Alan Roehrich]

Test and tune is only worth it if the track prep is excellent, the session is at least 8-10 hours, and down time is kept to a minimum. For that, $100 is not a terrible price. Anything less than that is hardly worth the effort, much less the time, the diesel to get there, and the unnecessary wear and tear on the car to learn very little. Yes, that especially applies to taking an extra day off of work to come to a "day before" test and tune.

[Don Kennedy]

Originally Posted by Alan Roehrich

Test and tune is only worth it if the track prep is excellent, the session is at least 8-10 hours, and down time is kept to a minimum. For that, $100 is not a terrible price. Anything less than that is hardly worth the effort, much less the time, the diesel to get there, and the unnecessary wear and tear on the car to learn very little. Yes, that especially applies to taking an extra day off of work to come to a "day before" test and tune.

Alan : you nailed the issue perfect

[7423]

Spend a day at you local track for a bracket race. One hundred or more cars, 99% with slicks, a maintained surface, all for a $50 buy in and a chance at around $1200 to win for your efforts. I call that a good test and tune with the most bang for your buck.

[Pete Beau]

Originally Posted by jeff conley

Every Thursday (it's called Rock's Rental) before our 1st Friday of each month Friday Heads Up Series Race we have a proffesional test session from 12pm-8pm one lane prepped. Pro Mods all the way down to NHRA stockers show up every month cost is $100 Track is fully prepped for maximum traction.

Milan Dragway and maximum traction in the same post?

[Pete Beau]

Originally Posted by CBS

Rock's Rental????

Do I get a discount...?

No, you pay more :-)

[NewHemi]

Every time I went to a local track T & T actually there were three times, (not counting T & T prior to a Divisional event) there were trucks there that looked like they just ran a mud race, shaking at the starting line and dropping crap all over the already "not quick well prepped" track.

So in those cases we just took an easy run to make sure everything worked as planned, and couldnt really trust wringing out the car, when it would be so easy to break something.

$40 for those runs wasn't too bad.

David
The New Hemi Guy

[LNorton]

Originally Posted by Don Kennedy

it has been my experience that most of the time the test and tune session are not worth it . Most of the time the track does not prepp the track at all .

That's the best time to test. If you can make your junk work on that it will work on anything. We have one particular track we use just for this reason.

[Alan Roehrich]

Originally Posted by LNorton

That's the best time to test. If you can make your junk work on that it will work on anything. We have one particular track we use just for this reason.

That's not the reason I go to test. I'm sure as Hell not going to pay the track for that, take a day out of the shop, buy diesel, buy race gas, and put wear and tear on the car to go spin the tires. I can do burn outs in the drive way if all I want to do is waste time and money.

[Don Kennedy]

Originally Posted by LNorton

That's the best time to test. If you can make your junk work on that it will work on anything. We have one particular track we use just for this reason.

I don't need to test for a poorly prepared track , and I should not have to tune my car for a unsafe track . It is the responsibility of the track to prepare the track with safety in mind as well as great traction . I have just about quit testing and tune as the last 40 or so times the track is junk for my car , maybe not junk for a bracket car , or maybe a clutch car who can slip the clutch ,but for the higher HP cars test and tune is a waste most of the time