Recent content by Voltwings

I am still at it, because I am talking from experience and you are talking out of your ass. Don't try to shy away from it by saying "ever so slight increase" and "some minuscule way," you have absolutely no idea what you are talking about, Just take your L gracefully and move on. Quote those...

@ZYBORG, just had a friend send me this, and I want you to go to 6:20 and watch the following quote from Dodge's vehicle development manager: "... obviously with more grip you're going to have a tendency to have more roll angle, so we wanted to counter that..." Track day is next week buddy...

Magazines also get press cars that are rode hard and put away wet. Remember the debacle with the GT500 on worn tires losing to the Camaro in the head to head comparison...

I'd give them the benefit of the doubt and say they are still just testing and identifying things. If a 105mm throttle body does nothing, then the stock one wasn't a restriction at that point. If porting the blower doesn't gain much, it's not a restriction at this point... I think they're just...

Back to the topic at hand, LMS series is going Hybrid as well next year as well. I think something like 7 manufacturers were on board, though I just saw today that Aston Martin bailed.

My guess is the airbox pressurizes at speed, so it wasn't so much a "gain" they noticed on the dyno as it was the removal of a loss. Really no amount of dyno fan is going to replicate 100+ MPH of pressurized air.

"I"m A RaCeCaR DrIvER"

The tech part of me gets it, the racer part of me doesnt; you're not even racing at that point any more. Speed aside, it just seems like it takes all the involvement, the emotion, the thrill out of it by basically automating your lap. Why even bother learning to drive when everyone can just...

I mean, you can sit here and make memes all day, I'm giving you a genuine opportunity to actually prove to everyone how smart you are. I'm sure SVT has a little crown we can put next to your name or something?

Where in Texas are you? I host several private track days a year if you're interested in learning something?

Absolutely, and that's the problem: variables. Despite the fact there are numerous differences between a Porsche and a Challenger, and the fact that 8 seconds from a tire change alone is absolutely absurd, hell, even 5 seconds from a tire change alone is absurd, at the end of the day it's all...

I'll ask you again, how much track experience do you have? Go put sticky R compounds on a car without adjusting the suspension to compensate and come tell me how it drives. You'll pick up some time from the stickier tire actually being able to handle the heat (that's a factor that's independent...

I didn't say that, what I did say is you can't just assume it will be faster with the cup 2. Throwing a sticky tire on suspension not stiff enough to handle it exaggerates the body roll and makes the vehicle more prone to breaking loose, sliding, exaggerates weight transfer and makes the car...

How much track time do you have to make that statement? I'm not trying to be an ass, I'm willing to hear another's view point on the subject, but that has not been the experience of me or the people I run with. Horsepower is the #1 sufferer of diminishing returns when it comes to improving lap...

Sticky tires + too soft suspension can actually make the car handle worse because it exaggerates the body roll, which I imagine as all that would happen to the hellcat. Don't get me wrong, going from like an all season to a summer tire is always an improvement, but you can't just say "the...