Put up or shut up..... bench racers!

[lil427z]

bill looks good , keep up the good work .
rick kirkindall

[67Sally]

Originally Posted by Bill Howell

How is this shot, taken today? Even though I know I am a Poser, I will light em up!

It is amazing how long it takes to work all that smoke out of the tires. Keep on working at it Bill.
W.

[V8TV]

We've been wanting to shoot something like what is being discussed here for a long time. Not so much to show a winner and loser, but to profile what some of these cars are capable of when properly set up, and also to provide some tips to the ones that are having some troubles.

It reminds me of the Pro Street shootout Car Craft did back in the early '90's... when Pro Street was becoming Pro Trailer... they ran some of the high-profile cars of the day and were completely let down. It turned out that all the thourough-the-hood blowers and tubbed chassis cars didn't run very well after all.

We'll have to knock our heads together to come up with a couple events where we can get a track and do it up without breaking the bank. Maybe a long weekend sometime so people could participate from different parts of the country.

[Derek69SS]

V8TV, what would be cool if you do a show on something like this, would be to include a new car as a bench-mark to compare them to, like a new Porsche or some other sports-car that people tend to think way too highly of. People seem to think only the Europeans know how to make a car handle, so if you used a 'vette, the euro-car guys would all rip on it for getting beat by "old, heavy, tanks"... do the same tests with a Porsche, and suddenly it's amazing how great the old cars handle, rather than how poorly the new one does...

Something set up like CC's RSE, but without the "show" part of it... also include cost to build, and gas-mileage, and several muscle-cars ranging from a $10,000 build to a $100,000 build.

[JohnM69SS]

And hey.. If you want a bone stock restored 69 SS 350 to set some factory base numbers, I won't be afraid to stretch out my 14X7 bias plies.......

[Rybar]

Originally Posted by Bill Howell

How is this shot, taken today? Even though I know I am a Poser, I will light em up!

Bill those pics are sweet! That's my way of testing a setup.

I think the reason why he call us bench racers is becuase most of us on this site are in the PROJECT stages of our builds. How can we test anything if we are building it over time?

Anyways, I promise you I will "test" my Camaro when it's done in the best of ways. And I'll post pics and videos to prove it.

[vanzuuk1]

I am counting the minutes until autocross season, I plan to beat the pee pee out of my car.

Any jersey/ny/ct. guys want to join me, let me know.

I have video of my car being thrashed with the stock suspension, cant wait to drive the dse version.

I also plan to try pocono once i get the harnesses.

[V8TV]

OK... I can get us an M3, an NSX, a CTS-V, a DTS-V, (bad ass car, by the way...) and a LS7 Z06, and maybe an E55 and a CL65.

Do these sound like good benchmarks? The Lateral-G cars really have to run (and turn and stop!) to hang with these cars, but I'd love to shoot it!

- KO

[evilzee28]

It seems to have gone all quiet here, does this mean that you don't wanna see what your cars compare like to these modern hi po machines??

[evilzee28]

Originally Posted by 67Sally

It is amazing how long it takes to work all that smoke out of the tires. Keep on working at it Bill.
W.

Don't mean to put a dampner on things here, but laying a little rubber isn't what P/T is all about surely?? Any of the hot euro 4 bangers can easily lay more smoke than that . I thought it was about handling & performance, you know, take an old body style & hop it up with supercar performance. I noticed that the last thread about testing the cars on a track amounted to nothing. C'mon guys, show the world how well they can perform....or don't they ???? Mmmmm.....