Re: Luis Marques' driving...

[ejfluhr@austin.ibm.com (Fluhr)]

Mike Williams writes:
>Hey eric, did i read you right? 80mph?  It seems impossible for that to 
>happen.  Can you tell me a little more about the car that did it? 

I guess I need to clarify that a bit...maybe Jason and Luis can jump in here.  
Bear in mind that these guys are not watching the speedo when driving, so 
the speedo numbers are estimates from glancing at it during the run.

The slalom course consists of 7 cones spaced 100ft apart (thanks Rick).
Jason said he was topping out at 80mph.  Jason's car is a '97 A4 1.8tq
with Addco front & rear sway bars and BFG R1's (225/50?) on the 5-spoke
A4 16x7 rims.

Luis topped out in the low 70mph range, perhaps up to 75mph.  He drives
an '87 4Kq with H&R springs and Boge Turbo Gas shocks, and was running
Dunlop SP8000 195/55 tires on the stock 14x6 4Kq wheels (or were those
runs with the 15x7 rims & Yoko AVS tires?).  The two runs I watched
weren't pretty, and the car looked like it wanted to swap ends around
just about every cone, but he made it past all 7 cones each time.

Luis & Jason, feel free to chime in here if I have anything wrong.

Later,
Eric
'85 Coupe GT, only got very low 60's in the slalom...
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