They also use vbox or small wheel.

 

warrtalon, its actually been PROVEN that the gtech pro measures within a certain degree. No, I dont know the degree and no I dont have any solid proof of this. But I have heard its actually very accurate.

 

Man, I'm tired of hearing this. The point is that it doesn't know when to start. My drag launches include an initial roll. If the timer starts when I first move, then my 0-60 will be terrible. At the drag strip, there is a small distance you can travel before tripping the light. The G-tech can't know when or when not to begin the timing. Also, you can't take a g-tech measured time and use it to make claims. YOu have to actually go and do it at a track. Same with the 0-60...I can claim a G-tech 0-60 all I want, but it's not something I can claim in public or use for direct comparison with others.

I have no doubt that it's accurate in terms of timing, though.

 

or let me do it for him !

 

do you guys know that you can be beaten by slower 0-60 car? 1/8 and 1/4 is more important than 0-60 or 0-100. 0-60 isn't a good way to measure the performance. you can do it for just fun though. think about the trap speed. there is a bike that has trap speed just little over 105mph but it did 9.99 sec for 1/4.
Now, for evo, you have to do like 130 mph. if you go by 0-100, many evos here should beat this bike but the bike is faster.

 

It's true... 0-60 is only good for magazine ads and stoplight racing (ie killing someone off the line and leaving it at that), which we all know is illegal... so let us not speak of it...

 

Alittle off topic but,

About your G-tech times, you need to adjust your pitch because those traps are too high for your 1/4 times and your car being stock. In the back of the manual they tell you how to adjust pitch if traps speeds are too high.

 

Talon, if you can get through the first two shifts for a 4.8 0-60, then you should be able to shift once more pretty quickly. I don't know if your g-tech is calculated correctly. My 05' MR with a tbe and tune ran 12.38 at 110 in the 1/4mile. I launched really softly to get that time. It would seem you shift pretty well if you got a 4.8 though? I don't know, it just seems like you should have been faster in the 1/4? JMO

 

It's pretty cool, the new g-techs have adjustable rollout. You set what you want before you run. I know the new ones are supposed to be much better, I have one but haven't tracked it yet. I had the original one when they first came out. I used it at the track and it was within 1/10 of my 1/4 mile et. The biggest problem with my old g-tech was the trap speed. I had a blown 90' mustang on street tires. So when I spun bad, the g-tech was way off.

 

You have been owned, stop with excuses.

 

Id have to look at the graph (which isn't on this computer), but I had to get 4th before hitting the 1320 mark, so there's two shifts there.

I put the weight at 3420, with me in it obviously. There could be a little user error there but that was my best guess with the curb weight of the car and myself.

As mentioned, I think it's a cool little unit and fun to compare cars, but I wouldn't use its data as 'real' numbers.

Also as mentioned, the unit I have (the blue colored Comp) you can set a rollout distance of 12 or 16 inches.

 

It was a pretty flat piece of land.

 

My EVO does 3.31 and the GSX is 2.96

 

I thought magazines used expensive equipment which used satellite navigation to figure out 0-60mph times. In any case, it does sound cool when you tell people that your car does 0-60 in 4.4 secs. 1/4mi. times are only good in a discussion with people that actually know what they are talking about and drag...

 

You are probably dead on the money Trevor.

When we ran the C&D event this summer we were timed from 0-60 mph. On our best run we ran 0-60 mph in 3.3 seconds. This was with the car spinning and running 11.9 at 116 mph in the 1/4 mile.

I'd say with the car in the 11.30's as it is now the 0-60 mph time has to be very close to a 2.9 or 3.0.

David Buschur
www.buschurracing.com