And Jake, remember that you are trying to reason with a man who has asserted publicly that the ITAC is a puppet of VW, ..., has insinuated that anyone that disagrees with his position is gutless, keeps referring back to the state of ITC in one series at one track as representative of his position that all is healthy, and hates me because I had the nerve to...
1. Disagree with him (How DARE I!!!) and
2. Call him out on all of his silly crap.
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*I have never said "all was healthy" or anything close.
*I retracted the VW thing.
*I suggested someone who was willing to stand up to the powers that be had some guts, that's a far cry from "anyone disagreeing with me was gutless."
*I made a few references to substantiate the validity of my car as representative of a competitive ITC car for comparison with the NB.
* And you have made no technical argument that disproves any of my statements other than the ITAC considers 180 lbs to be an average driver weight.
*You attacked me personally with some pretty strong language, you belittled my driving record (when your own is nothing to tout as superlative); you suggest that the people I race against are not up to IT drivers in the rest of the country (when your own record shows you habitually race against 6 or 7 cars in class, where I have not raced aginst less than 12 in class in the last 12 years); and you even go so far as to besmirch one of the favorite racing venues on the East Coast, (because you evidently can't handle surface changes.)
I dislike you Scott because in my opinion you are not honest and as far as I can see you are a poseur. I've detected little technical insight or comprehension from anything you have declared. And your declaration of your conception of a condition doesn't make it any more accurate than my own. Just like Jake, you distort my comments to make your argument. That's not honest, Jake, that's "crap."
I don't mind being proven wrong other than suffering the same embarrasment anyone else would. But you Scott and Jake and a few others aren't men enough to recognize a mistake when it slaps you in the face.
Darin,
I beleive you stated somewhere you use 25% as a standard for HP increase for IT prep. Using your figure (and I believe that's pretty conservative), the Fiesta would make
81 Hp (up from the 65 stock). I used the same 25% increase for the NB and came up with 144. That gives the Fiesta a 1 Hp to 22 P/W (1780/81) (originally I used the actual race weight of 1910 to come up with the 1:24 figure) and the NB with a 1 Hp to 18 lbs P/W. I really don't know exact Hp for the Fiesta, we've never dynoed it. But I don't think its unfair to use the same speculative percentage for both cars. (That appears to be how you came up with the race weight for the NB.)
A 4 lb. P/W advantage (not even considering other factors) in my opinion precludes consideration of the NB for ITC.
And regardless of some misrepresentation of my attitude (and I think I said this before) I appreciate your efforts.
GRJ
[This message has been edited by grjones1 (edited July 30, 2004).]
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