Would A Drive By Wire Car Be Allowed to Race ?

[Charley Downing]

Larry do a little more research before you post. Your not helping your cause. The ford factory fly by wire system cannot be changed while going down the track. If you start a run 70% throttle you end a run 70% throttle. Drive by wire is not traction control in drag racing. Yes you could cheat using fly by wire, but you can also cheat using a carburetor and a home made MSD box. So what is your point? If you think new cars are the only thing holding you back from winning race's build one. Then you can have that unfair advantage and all that prize money.

Fords don't spin anyway.

[Mike Fuller]

Charley, how can a car that runs 9.50 and a car that runs 10.60 have the same 60 foot time if they don't vary or control (gain) the throttle opening during the run?

[Larry Hill]

800 hp, 600ft/lbs torque, 42% rear weight, 9" tires, hot track, and no spin.

Its just a physics problem!

[Charley Downing]

1.80 low gear in a 2 speed trans and a big blower SS

2.40 low gear three speed trans and a small blower STK

CJ are turds off the line and then the blower takes over. There only 330 CI
Mike the CJ make all there power from 500 ft to 1320ft. Ask anyone that has ran one and they will tell you at 1000ft you don't think they are getting there and then all at once they are going by you.
any other questions.

[Larry Hill]

Would the drive by wire, traction controle, run tracing, wheel counter, CJ 's be allowed in Super Gas?

Ford spent the money, dotted all the I's and cross all the T's, did the R&D, and bought the rest with cars and trucks.

Get ready to see them in the winners circle, a lot.

Bottom line CJ's are great race cars!!!!

[Charley Downing]

Larry It's time for you to trade in that old cuda for a new DP or CJ. I really hate to see you with an unfair advantage. Joe Teuton can you help Larry out with a trade in program or something. If the fords and DP were so great they would have won more then TWO national events in the past three years. There have been more 1960's camaro and F body cars winning then DP and CJ in the past three years.

[C and W Racing]

This whole topic is funny, I drive an 08 cobra jet for a friend of mine on occasion and have worked on it for him more times than I care to count. Ford must have done a great job at hiding all these counters because I haven't found one yet. ( so if someone can pm me the locations it would allow me to stop looking) lol. The car I drive is a stick car and I can tell you on more than one occasion traction has been an issue. Or is traction control only an option on the automatic cars? lol. If so, I guess I need to talk him into putting an automatic in it. May not be as much fun to drive, but hey the winnings and all the walley's should start rolling in. I'm trying to remember how many of these cheating cars have won National events. I can only think of one and it was a stick, so he didn't even get all the extra enhancements the automatic guys get. lol
Chuck

[C and W Racing]

I see Charley Downing said that two have won, so I must have missed on.
Chuck

Originally Posted by Kevin Zaskowski

I am not taking sides, but here is a link to a thing called "acceleration". If you understand physics, you can make sense of how they acquire certain times and speeds....but then again, I am only an engineer. Lots of fun facts and formulas below, enjoy:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acceleration

Nice job this weekend Kevin.

I called brad Charlie cause they look similar, sorry Brad.. :/

It's been awhile since I've seen Charlie.

A little calculus will tell is what's really happening with the throttle manipulations going on, right? Thank you Newton.