[V8] track F/R and fun stuff.....:-)

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I'd already have won the bet tony.  The reason the Ranger is  better, is that 
the wheel travel is exponential in comparison to the 4kq or  the type 44.  I 
found this last year when I took my 94 landcruiser (TRD  supercharged) to 
Steamboat last year.  Although it's totally stock twin  ibeam suspension, the 
wheel travel on this machine is something like 11inches  from center.  As such, 
the blizzacks never lost contact with the road,  which meant all that 
supercharged power was making traction.  I have over  an hour of video of this machine 
chasing down a 430ATWHP S car and the LT1Q,  both driven by senior members of 
our Gruppe-q team.  The LC made the chase  look boring.
 
Wheel travel rules in offroad traction.
 
Scott Justusson
91 v8 slush
85 urq
84 urq
94 supercharged landcruiser
In a message dated 4/18/2007 1:22:53 P.M. Central Standard Time,  
tonyandlillie1 at earthlink.net writes:

The 4000  did not have locked diffs in these "trials".

But, I'd agree, I don't  think diffs are coming into play here. The Ranger is 
in 2WD when doing  this.

It's what I do nearly every day coming home form work, so I just  come 
around the paved corner as fast as I can, floor it, and about 50 feet  up I 
hit the dirt road (straight off the pavement). Keep it floored till I  have 
to hit the brakes. That simple ;-)
Anyone want to try  it?

Tony Hoffman


 



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