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Originally Posted by 70rs
Ty,
The car looks fantastic! And, for whatever its worth I think you did a great job of hitting the mark dead on! Great blend of updated performance, but without taking anything away from the original "feel" of the car. Nice job!
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Eric:
Thanks for the input, I appreciate it. The next thing I would like to do is get some good performance numbers on the Car now as it is vs. what Road and Track wrote about the car when they were new.
I would hope there would be some improvement, however I'm not sure how diligent the Magazines were back then in doing the testing in such a way that it was reliably repeatable, and that the Testing Parameters haven't changed in the last 45+ years.
I guess I'll see what the car can do.
0-60 mph
0-100 mph
60-0
Lateral acceleration
40-70 mph Passing time
etc., etc.
Then if the result don't pass the sniff test, I'll repeat them and see if at least my numbers are constant with themselves. While I am waiting, I'll research to see if there was a standardized methodology for a particular test.
I know in material science they use Test according to ASTM Standards. (American Society for Testing and Materials)
This reminds me of an article I read recently regarding the accuracy of engine Dyno's with the same car moving though a series of different testing machines. The results were interesting, and as a rule were all within a certain percentage of each other, but I think the consensus was that there were NOT going to agree with each other no matter what. Some additional measurements could have been taken, but maybe what they had already used up all the space they had for the article, or they didn't want to boar the readers?
I wish they had run the standard deviation with all the data, and using statistics, determine if the differences were significant, or basically "Noise".
I know, "Geek Alert", but it is a useful exercise, and occasionally turns out some very interesting information.
Anyway, thanks a again for writing, and the nice comments of my Riv. I appreciate it.
Take care,
Ty