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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...

Actually just read the new Motortrend on a flight home and they compared the GT500s against a Z51 C8 at VIR. They directly compared the GT500 and C8 Z51 because that was a "closer comparison," and on the back straight it looks like the GT500 did 166.5 and the vette did 153.6. Not really a...

An interesting comment from someone deleting their prior posts... I am simply being the bigger person and acknowledging I may have been wrong on one of my points. I still don't agree with it based on my experience, but i can at least acknowledge the possibility based on someone else sharing...

Since my experience is 95% road course and maybe 5% drag strip, that is where most of my tire expertise lies. I would challenge the claim that most street tires (and we're talking at least remotely sporty tires) have a stiff sidewall... granted, in the context I am talking vs the context you are...

Jesus dude, in the plainest English we can possibly give you: Lateral grip (that's the side to side one) is not the same as the grip measured in a straight line such as launching. That data is meaningless for this discussion, cupcake. Also, what factors go into the arbitrary "dry grip" charts...

Does serp da derp also take a single datapoint as gospel, despite several other widely known facts?

Thank God someone else commented on tire sidewall and lateral grip vs straight line grip, I was about to lose my mind. A few items: 1. Both tires are equal as far as straight line grip, but the 4S will launch better because of the sidewall. Road course tires are shit at the drag strip because...

Put up part of a fence with a mutual neighbor who had a 20v Dewalt impact... that thing was nice haha.

I used to be all for craftsman, but I feel like the quality just hasn't been there since Sears sold them. Been slowly switching everything over to Milwaukee, but to each his own.

Jason Camisa is a special kind of irritating, but that was a mostly pretty good video.

The fact that he's flicking the car off in the thumbnail almost 100% makes it seem like click bait. I can't imagine the business increase you'd get in social media views / likes that offsets the cost of a 100k car, but stranger things have happened.