[s-cars] Dragstrip day

[Joe Pizzimenti]

Mikey,
You're absolutely right on the chassis thing. Tons of horsepower and a nice
dynosheet is a good thing if you're into just waving it in everyone's face,
but as we both know, going around the track in something that's a bit more
capable is a lot more fun than wrestling with Miss Piggy in the mud.

As Rod once said "The road beyond RS2 lies full of heartache and a lighter
wallet." Wise man, that Haney.

Joe, Nomex? We don't need no stinkin Nomex, Pizzo

On 9/28/05, mlp <mlped at qwest.net> wrote:
>
> Yes, even at altitude, Dave's car is making boat loads of power "as is."
> And if he gets everything else dialed in, .... well the way these things
> seem to go, the problems will move to some other place in the power train
> :-)
>
> That said, I spent this last weekend at an Audi Club sponsored drivers ed
> event at PPIR where the Don (Frank Amoroso) put in his appearance as an
> Audi
> Club instructor driving his immaculately maintained Black w/ Yellow
> accents
> '93 UrS4.
>
> Frank's car is, I think, now basically a fully RS2'ed AAN with customized
> chip software by Mihnea Cottet. Let me just say Frankie baby is flat
> HUSTLING that car around the track .... and that's just with "paltry" RS2+
> something power. This may seem like blasphemy, but, .... other than for
> drag racing, I'm not really sure what you can/could safely do with a whole
> lot more power in the existing chassis setup. I'm at the point, given the
> choice, I'm not sure I'd be willing to push my Green UrS4 around the track
> like Frank is, or as hard as I can run with the Rx8 at the same track...
> it's not a lack of power any more, as much as it is chassis and suspension
> issues.
>
> In two weeks we go back to the same venue for two days, one day of which
> will be to run with the local Ferrari club ....., that'll be interesting
>
> Mike, wait let me go get my nomex suit on, P
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Taka Mizutani [mailto:t44tqtro at gmail.com]
>
>
> Damn Mike- I thought Dave was hitting 442whp uncorrected, which would be
> an
> insane
> amount of power at sea level. 442whp is pretty insane even corrected,
> considering my 2.5L tin can is probably running around 220whp, of course
> that's bone-stock.
>
> Taka
>
>
> On 9/27/05, mlp <mlped at qwest.net> wrote:
>
> Geeze Taka, you're going to get Hap all excited talking like that!! :-)
>
> No, I'm pretty sure Dave's 442 ATW figure is an SAE adjusted number, so an
> allowance has already been made for test altitude, temperature and
> humidity.
> If Dave hadn't lost his dyno disk, MAC's software (google search/find
> "runviewer7) will allow him to print off a totally uncorrected "raw" dyno
> number. On my Rx8, just as an example, a SAE corrected 186 bhp/134 ft-lbs
> SAE "atw", will convert to 145.69 bhp /104.76 ft/lbs at approximatly
> 5,400'
> etc. with the dyno's software correction factors set to "none" Pathetic,
> isn't it?
>
> For the Green Garbage can, before Liminey Snikets and "... an unfortunate
> series of events...." the best peak SAE numbers I ever saw on the same
> dyno
> Dave has been using, were 429bhp total power/381 total torque SAE
> adjusted;
> translates to 347 bhp/308 ft-lbs unadjusted for altitude etc.
>
> HTH
> mlp
>
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