Stock CLS 6 speed...14.11 @ 96mph !!!
06-13-2002, 04:35 AM
#42
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Originally posted by Red Rider
Good luck and please post your times. I'll be up in PDX this weekend for the CART race.
Good luck and please post your times. I'll be up in PDX this weekend for the CART race.
3.2cl-s, i'm not sure if that is true. my runs were done w/ studless snowtires and i had no wheelspin what so ever. that little bit of wheelspin will help to get the rpm's up and lower my 60' times. we will know shortly.
06-13-2002, 06:36 AM
#43
Suzuka Master
Originally posted by BNut
A slow 60' time that had lots of wheelspin will typically have a HIGHER trap speed.
A quick 60' time that had little to no wheelspin will typically have a LOWER trap speed.
Unless this guy was lieing about his Z3 run, his GS430 run AND the S2000 run, why would he bother ONLY lieing about the CL-S run?
I have VIDEO proof of a 4th Gen DX Accord running a 16.1 with footage of the engine and people STILL doubted me. I saw it 3 times with my own eyes and didn't believe either but that doesn't change that fact that it DID happen despite it defying the very laws of physics and reasoning.
http://www.cox-internet.com/bcb8996/...pd-MedQual.asf
BTW, his only "mod" is a cracked open air box which can see in the footage and obviously hear during his burnout. He's also on his 3rd transmission.
I swear, people see conspiracies everywhere.
A slow 60' time that had lots of wheelspin will typically have a HIGHER trap speed.
A quick 60' time that had little to no wheelspin will typically have a LOWER trap speed.
Unless this guy was lieing about his Z3 run, his GS430 run AND the S2000 run, why would he bother ONLY lieing about the CL-S run?
I have VIDEO proof of a 4th Gen DX Accord running a 16.1 with footage of the engine and people STILL doubted me. I saw it 3 times with my own eyes and didn't believe either but that doesn't change that fact that it DID happen despite it defying the very laws of physics and reasoning.
http://www.cox-internet.com/bcb8996/...pd-MedQual.asf
BTW, his only "mod" is a cracked open air box which can see in the footage and obviously hear during his burnout. He's also on his 3rd transmission.
I swear, people see conspiracies everywhere.
The CLS really has traction problems, so its going to be putting down a lot of power at the end of the run to make up for the really lousy weight transfer at the start -- and will make for a high ET (from all that lost time getting going), but the average speed once "hooked-up" is very high in relation to the aerodynamic drag (car is moving very fast at the end of the run). (The high HP vs. CD * velocity^2 is what determines the acceleration at the end of the run…)
If anyone wants to check it out -- look at the ETs of FWD cars with high HP and no drag slicks and/or other traction aids, they will be mediocre, but the trap times will be rather high.
I could see someone spinning the shit out of the tires (for the crummy 60' time, then dump the Rotational Kinetic Energy of the tires, wheels, and other rotating parts (by hooking up) and show a momentary .2-.3Gs of additional acceleration (a brief spike when the energy is “dumped” into the car’s forward/translational motion to "boost" the car’s growing velocity (it would interesting to have someone watch a car with stock tires vs. a sticky tire car and where the spinning stops in relation to 60-feet…)
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