Glad you had a good day G. What were Karl's times today? Did Dave drive that car too?

6pm and the excuses are already out. :lol:

Come on you know how it works now.. Sutton told him to not use those anymore. :rules:

Just a minute -- I have to confer with my manager!


Yep -- it's all about the science of actually measuring things and then buying parts that work with the science. Yippeeeeeeeee

Same configuration Greg ran two weekends ago?

Karl said he blew the LS up at Sonoma recently. Car is on hold for now.

Nope.

Dang. Shoulda stuck with good ole proven old school stuff eh. That sucks. That motor is only about 6 months old or something.

Old School New school they all need special attention and a regular tear down inspection. It happens.

You know I was kidding. They don't short cut over there @ Life's Good Racing. It was a crate motor from Schwanke (not cheap at all).

Todd -- It's really hard to figure out what the split is between the two configurations. Most folks just factor about 3 or 4 seconds faster for the bypass config. But - always the big butt - I've found track records with as little as 1 second difference.

If we just invoke the Andy Sutak rule -- it's 7 seconds. Close enough for government work. That puts Gaetano right there with "us". I should have added that he is the track record holder in every configuration - CW and CCW - with and without The Cyclone (aka The Crows Nest).

If you haven't seen an Andy Sutak Thunderhill video - or any of his videos - just YouTube the guy. He's holy smoking crack fast.

NASA TT track record holder in CLASS A (I don't know the HP/Weight rules in this class) -- running with the Cyclone -- in a 2006 Mustang is 2:10.077

I couldn't find a NASA TT time with the bypass for any car that I would think is "similar"... that have a posted track record.

My point is -- there's no set time you can assign for the difference in the two track configs... The generally accepted rule I always heard was 3 to 4 seconds - but I think it's more than that based on most of my homework with similar cars to what we are running.... yet I've also found track record holders running in the 1.40's with as little as a 1 second difference. Obviously those are very fast cars with very accomplished drivers - so that may account for the smaller split. IDK.

Seems to me he's doing pretty dang well.

Yup, yup ... sure does. These powerful engines can not be treated like a plug-n-play toaster. They require TLC.