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Originally Posted by tyoneal
Wasn't the I.R.O.C. based on similar cars with just a driver difference?
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We just said the same thing. I was afraid my post being so long would skew what I am getting at given the floorboard comment.
IROC cars are IDENTICAL cars, NOT built by each team. Everything including engine, trans, chassis is 100% IDENTICAL and maintained at ONE location. This tests two things - a team's ability to set the car up (monkey with suspension) for a given track, and the driver's capability to drive the same powered car. You need to take the driver out of the equation, so you have a single professional driver drive them all one at a time.
So, require the teams to build an exactly identical car with an exact crate motor and trans, and you will have NO challenge as nobody would invest that kind of money in a mule (it's like asking the engine masters to build and bring along their own dyno).
So the magazine needs to buy a couple of old Camaro IROC racers, and add the front and rear with stock 1969 Camaro suspension mounts in stock location (so each company's camaro bolt in kit does just that, bolts in.) Then do a couple suspensions per week and have the driver run them. Take an average of 5 laps. That is the ONLY way you could get a somewhat unbiased test of suspension designs. I don't care what they make the suspension out of, look like, etc... it just has to be a bolt on kit for a given car type. That would be the best test for a "typical" consumer. If it starts requiring custom mounting fabrication, it is BS for the typical consumer.
We are getting onto the same page
