Re: VIPAIR™ Dyno Results on 99 RT 16 RWHP!!
So you guys think you can feel a 1.7 percent change in your cars performance.
That's what you are saying. A 20hp improvement will give you less than a 2% better time in 1/4 mile, and you can feel it.
So what else can you feel? I already brought up the speed, you can tell the difference between 100mph and 101.7mph, right?
If the bartender pours you a beer, you can tell by the feel of it that it's really 12.24oz and not just 12oz, Right?
You were waiting an hour at the airport, or was it 61 min instead? You could tell right?
Look guys, I know you think you can tell. Lots of people think they can tell.
And I'm not saying that you can't tell on the way down the track, that you have a good run going.
What I'm saying is that people can be fooled by noise and they can be fooled by hype.
Make a car louder and most guys think it's faster. Do a small mod and tell the guy his car is faster, he will agree.
It's easy to fool the senses.
As far as telling you have a good run on the 1/4 mile,
If you get a good 60ft you may very well notice a .2 sec improvement. See, .2sec of 1.6sec is a much larger percentage. You could feel that and know that you are going to have a good run without looking at the clock.
You haven't perceived a 2% improvement in the whole run, you felt the 13% improvement in your 60ft time.
"So pull out your calculator and continue doing the math like a freakin' POSER and leave the driving to the rest of us"
Tell me, do you think that "real" racers ignore the numbers?
Do you think they rely on their senses and make jokes about the dumb a$$ with the calculator?
Well, is that what you think?
"So joe-joe is truing to help. By your post I can only assume you have never tracked your car or any performance car for that matter."
I have been at this for a VERY long time. It is quite possible that my time and experience on the track far exceeds yours. Would you like to compare?