yes, pretty close point to point from 0-115. Truth is though his car is faster at every point on the track. Point to point is an ET race. But a roll race from 50 MPH to the top of 4th gear is very different.
Your car does well on ET vs. his…but again that’s not what a 50-125 race is about. Here’s why your car does so well on ET with 50 whp less power…
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you’re a better shifter. In the video you can hear that he makes what he thinks are quick shifts…but they are not what you and I might consider quick shifts. SO you’ll pick up some ET and MPH there for sure. Getting more out of your car than he is, so to speak. When you have 3 shifts in the 1/4 mile including the crucial momentum maintaining 1-2 shift, that’s going to really show up on the timeslip. I would submit that you’d be able to crack off an 11.75 @ 120 in his car.
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you’re a better launcher. You ahve more experience. Dave has, I think, 10 dragstrip passes under his belt (that I know of). You have…well, more than 10 lol
Those three things are pretty signficant…and make the apparent difference between your cars seem smaller than it is.
Now let’s look at a roll race. He will have to shift maybe once if he starts in 3rd…and 2x if he starts in 2nd. HE will be in 3rd for about 3 seconds if that’s where you start, and then he will be in 4th for about 5-7 seconds. All the damage a slow 1-2 shift does is gone because he’s not even going to be in 1st. All the momentum your better shifting gets you from the 1-2 is gone. Same goes for 2-3.
You’re comparing your best pass out of what…30 on pump gas? To his best out of 2. Let’s compare your 10th or 15th best pass…bet you have a couple where you trapped 114 and ran 12.15. That’s a couple of buslengths…and that’s just the 1/4 mile. A highway pull of a 119-120 mph car vs. a 114 mph car is a big gap. In fact, watch this video if you want to see what 113 vs. 119 looks like…ugly.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=HIzA5oHBY1Q
If his car traps 119 on pump gas when he’s shifting that slow, and your car traps 115-116 on pump gas with you shifting that fast, that 3 mph difference that doesn’t seem so signficant will widen out considerably on the highway.
I’m just guessing though. No need to cry about it…you seem really bent out of shape. It’s just fucking phsyics. If his car is making 400-420 whp (conservative) and you’re making 360, guess what…you’re going to lose on the dyno, and if you do a long 1 or 2 gear pull, you’re going to lose there too. What’s the big deal?
p.s. even on ET, from the 330, which is right around the start of 3rd gear, to the 1320, which is half way through fourth gear (with 10 mph to go till redline) you lost 0.12 seconds to his car…which is around 1.5 car lengths alone. Remember where I said a short roll race you’d lose by around Let’s eliminate a gear change, and let’s extend the race another 300 feet…that gap will get wider.