Dynapck at LRP for the NARRCs

You don't even have to put your money where your mouth is-I will.
I'll pay for every entered ITB car to do one $50 pull [/b]
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Wow! That's pretty freakn' cool. Every ITB car? That could get a bit expensive.

I get archival copies of the torque and horspower plots for all cars.[/b]
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For a driver who has a legit engine, is there any valid reason one might not want copies of their dyno runs floating around? I can't imagine another competitor could use it to their advantage, but could be wrong.
 
For a driver who has a legit engine, is there any valid reason one might not want copies of their dyno runs floating around? I can't imagine another competitor could use it to their advantage, but could be wrong.
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If it won't be used for competition adjustments (and that remains an "if" in my mind), then I agree that there's no reason that folks with completely different engines (e.g., Honda vs. VW) could learn anything helpful to shortcut their development programs. They might learn your achilles heal, but you'd have a chance to learn theirs too (as long as the sharing of results is mutual).

However, for folks with the same or very similar engines but with a different development effort, it will require some deduction but their is much to be learned from a similar engine with a slightly different torque curve, for example. My thoughts are that, although it will be fun to compare my VW results with Ed Funk's ex-Klvana Honda or Fred White's, I don't expect to really learn anything from it. On the other hand, if Brian Megliola steps up with his well-tuned ITC VW engine, I might just learn something useful that could be applied to my own program (not that I'm implying that there's anything more to eek out of mine after 18 years of development with much professional input, but you just never know for sure).

Personally (and for admittedly selfish reasons), what I'd really love to see is a well-tuned 1.8L 16V VW engine do the pull so I could form my own rough idea of whether a 16V Scirocco might stand any chance of being competitive in ITA next year (or in ITB, for that matter).
 
OK, update time.

I think that the concept of this was great, and if the details could have been nailed, it would have been successful.....but.......

There are a few issues that have conspired to cause me to suggest that perhaps this is something for next spring-

1- Lime Rock needs to be on board with it, and I never heard back from them pro or con. I think a face to face discussion might be in order. I'll see if that can't happen, but for now, the response has to be thought of as a "no"

2- The supplier has no way to get the unit to the track, and it is very heavy, and needs to be kept out of the weather. That means renting a truck and all the attendent hassles. (think time and money) Perhaps when we have more time to line up the details, and perhaps enlist interested volunteers, this issue can be resolved.

3- least important, but as I was the guy doing some of the legwork, and I have a wedding that I'm attending that day, I was going to be in a bit of conflict timewise.


So, I'll take the info I've gotten here, contact the vendor and come up with a loose financial plan so we can look at doing this next spring.

I'll restart this thread, or another and get peoples interest and commitments then. once we know the season schedule, we can decide the event.

Sorry! it would have been fun!
 
I think it will be hard to get all the top players in one place at one time... the NARRC runoffs ushually is the only race that does this. maybe you can get it lined up for the 2007 NARRC Runoffs.

Thanks for the try!!! and skip the wedding :birra:

Raymond
 
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