SFI 25.2 Mustang/LSx build "The Renegade"
03-03-2010, 01:58 PM
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The travel comment I find interesting, as the pic's I saw from the race make teh car look like it's not even moving from the stance that it had just sitting, that car's got to be sprung really stiff, or like you're saying has absolutely no travel at all in it.
Still on the fence with the "zoomie" style exhaust. I'll bet that's just a phase people are going thru, or something they're trying with probably little return, if any.
Still on the fence with the "zoomie" style exhaust. I'll bet that's just a phase people are going thru, or something they're trying with probably little return, if any.
03-03-2010, 02:02 PM
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most of the cars in any class that didnt go on the bumper had very little front travel.... the 1st qualifying round was quite humours/costly.... lots of people really beat up their front ends at this race.... the track was ra-tarded sticky.
03-03-2010, 04:30 PM
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The travel comment I find interesting, as the pic's I saw from the race make teh car look like it's not even moving from the stance that it had just sitting, that car's got to be sprung really stiff, or like you're saying has absolutely no travel at all in it.
Still on the fence with the "zoomie" style exhaust. I'll bet that's just a phase people are going thru, or something they're trying with probably little return, if any.
Still on the fence with the "zoomie" style exhaust. I'll bet that's just a phase people are going thru, or something they're trying with probably little return, if any.
03-03-2010, 05:10 PM
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easy test. hook car to dyno with front end on scales somehow hooked to a logger of some sort or use a video camera to watch the numbers and run it through the gears as if its doing a 1/4 mile run with regular exhaust. then, put on "zoomie" exhaust and run it again. the difference is your down force or lack there of.
03-03-2010, 08:26 PM
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I like the guys saying the exhaust can't or won't work.It's trying new stuff and thinking outside the box that makes this stuff faster.When you stop being open minded is when you stop growing.
What i'm saying-until you try it,don't form an opinion.
What i'm saying-until you try it,don't form an opinion.
03-04-2010, 06:11 AM
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I hear ya Shawn about being open minded... but I've seen enough gimmick stuff over the years that didn't do anything other then get a bunch of people talking and spending $ and trying stuff only to find it didn't do anything.
It might work, it might not, but I I'd put my $ on wolfe doing it to do exactly what's happening here, getting people to talk about his car, which in turn will generate sales.
If it works great, a
way to add front end downforce, but my guess is it's more to generate attenion.
It might work, it might not, but I I'd put my $ on wolfe doing it to do exactly what's happening here, getting people to talk about his car, which in turn will generate sales.
If it works great, a
way to add front end downforce, but my guess is it's more to generate attenion.
03-04-2010, 08:02 AM
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uh oh
03-05-2010, 07:39 AM
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The upward exhaust does work. I have talked to the guy who came up with this. The angle of it matters even. In order to get forward and downward thrust. This was tested on a few Pro Mod cars with large motors and twins. He said he wasn't sure if a 400 cube motor with two 3.5" pipes would be worth anything. 