Would A Drive By Wire Car Be Allowed to Race ?
 

At the "
$1,000,000 Race"?

Re: Would A Drive By Wire Car Be Allowed to Race ?
 

How many you think are just that now?What's your point Larry?

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The million dollar bracket race held annually. Mostly won by rear engined dragsters with enough electronics to launch the space shuttle. Never had enough entries to pay the full million. Stiff entry fees with buy backs. Usually the winer gets around $250-$300 thousand.

Re: Would A Drive By Wire Car Be Allowed to Race ?
 

All the late model Corvettes are that way, do you think that they can cheat any better with a fly by wire throttle bodied car? Years ago, the Moroso 5 day had a car being controlled by something other then the driver's foot, it had a throttle stop on it being controlled electronically remotely. It made for an interesting evening, a 7 second dragster dialed in at 10 seconds. The owner was told to take it home and didn't get any purse money.

Casey Miles
248H Stock?

Re: Would A Drive By Wire Car Be Allowed to Race ?
 

The new mustangs have what should be called traction control. They only open the throttle a percentage of full open during launch.The next time you run down the track with one look at the 60 foot time and then the 1/8 mile time and do a comparison with a car that uses a cable or throttle linkage. It would be a simple math calculation.

Do the high dollar races allow traction control ignition system? I have never been to one or bothered to read the rules

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Mike....Do you know what you're talking about....

The drive by wire is a negative ...not a positive....

Larry,

Sorry I missed you this weekend....I think you are losing too much sleep over this....

They can probably do a special Pink CJ for you ya know....lol

Re: Would A Drive By Wire Car Be Allowed to Race ?
 

Ask Larry if this is not correct

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THE Million Dollar race was originated by George Howard and Steve Earwood. It's now owned by Randy Folk. This years edition will be at Montgomery. The EF is $2,000 and the BB is $500. This race is very much dominated by RED, but door cars have won.

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Casey you are refering to Rich Matty. He was using a device Nicknamed the "MATTY BOX" Go to brackettalk and research Matty or dirty dozen. Lots of rumors of what happened in Florida that year but fact Rich refused a teardown and was asked to leave then before the mob really got out of control. Side note the sanction bodies new it was out there but they never found it.

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Traction control is not allowed at many races nor it the MSD box you are reffering to. I would ask before I got caught with one.

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I can't answer Larry's question but if it's a factory item I don't see why not.
Chip

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Not to throw gasoline on this subject but.....with all the I/Phone and personal handheld devices that are available now there is several performance and tuning apps for these that allow "on the fly" corrections to your vehicle WHILE YOU ARE ON THE TRACK......I have seen a couple in action and they are VERY accurate....they can take a previous run and repeat it once the time and distance is recorded from the previous run.....so....technology is officially ahead of the curve....do not allow them on your person in the vehicle, doesn't matter....the phone doesn't even need to be on the event property to accomplish this....I can see ignition boxes, ECU's, etc being removed and inspected by tech's from the respective manufacturers to verify that this modern micro technology hasn't been added so the phone can communicate with it....

D L Rambo....

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And, you get these apps where? What brand ECUs have Bluetooth? I tune most systems, no Bluetooth or wireless capabilities on anything I've encountered.