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Originally Posted by californiacuda
I saw the fancy bumping machine on TV looked pretty high tech. I never saw any info on track times, or later G's or other quantifiable information. Can soome be provided?
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Our level I stuff pulls 1 G
Level II pulls just under 1.1 G's
That's sustained G's not peak.
Track times were silly - we took almost 15 seconds a lap off on a 1.3 mile road course, with about 4 seconds of that attributable to wheels and tires. We originally were going to do a full comparison on the TV shows, but in the end the gap was so big we decided against focusing on it.
We'll get some opportunities to run against (i.e. smoke) some modern cars this year for some meaningful benchmark comparisons.
BTW, the fancy bumping machine is what top F1, IRL, Champ, ALMS, Grand Am and NASCAR teams use - or rather these teams use the same guys we work with. They also do alot of work for the OE's. That machine is so precise we could see differences in the tire pressures and how they carry over to the vehicles handling. All the tools we used were OE and professional race level, right down to a ride and handling specialist on the track and street - he's a guy that gets lent out to the OE's when they have issues to sort out on production vehicles.
As we get some more time and opportunities it will become very clear just what our stuff can do. Also as more of our builds and customers running our stuff gets out there.