Contour Enthusiasts Group Archives Forums Branches California about yesterday @ sac race way.

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Yeah flummox brought the Caprice, but should have brought the SVT.

So, the wheelspin on the rear, well there is your answer!
Oooooohh, wheelspin on the rear of a CSVT, just imagine

lcheney - you have a blue SHO right? I saw yours run. I think I have it on tape too, I didnt realize it was you though, I thought you had a newer one, like a 94 (I think), the ones with the kits

Wheelhop originates from the drive wheels you monkey!

Shoddy times had by all? Thats no good! Next time I'll come to the track and pull 12's in my stock SVT!! *sarcasm*

James

I dont think you understand.....he had front wheelspin, but his rear end was bouncing
I didnt mean to put it all in one sentence, I should have said:
You had a lot of wheelspin. You also had a lot of bounce in your rear

Lol I just wanted to cal you a monkey! Gimme a break I have been writing a paper all of yesterday and today :rolleyes:

So his rear end was bouncing like a big booty ho? Did he have somebody in the trunk?

When my contour's-a-rockin everybodys knows not too-come-a-knockin

James

Actually, it's a black '92, with 3-spoke wheels and 12" front brakes; the paint needs some work so it might have looked more grey-blue. The '92s have the 'newer' body style (looks like a '94). Does that fit the description? (I've never seen another SHO out there, oddly enough).

Probably couldn't hear my car -- I was next to some guy in an older dodge something-or-other (I think) with a blower. But it (my car) probably made some pretty odd noises at around the 200' mark when the computer shut off (sputter sputter).

It would have been ~5:25, I think. Car 4104.

It'd be cool if you had it on tape. Let me know-

-Lance

lol, my bad Honeymobile about the not shifting into 3rd. lol oh well, your time would of been real good then. You should of stayed...the wait for the 3rd run wasn't that long.

Yeah my rear was a jumpin! (lil kim was suckin' up some yum)

Hey Nick, let me get that video so i can post it for ppl to see. I'm going next Wednesday like I said and see what's up. Who wants to join? I'm going stock one last time.

Hey i'm cool with any of you guys running my slicks (when i get them) @ the track, you just have to $cut$ me back some.

If I can get off early again I will take some runs in my SVT.

I want to know if I am on the video. Curious to see how much tire spin I really had.

Even with the crappy traction I had in the Caprice, it still was fun. Heck spinning the tires quite a bit and still pulled to over 90mph is not that bad.

Actually, just FWIW -- spinning the tires at the launch doesn't end up changing the trap speed very much. I did an experiment when I lived up in Idaho (and frequented the drag strip far too much). Start (easy) in 1st, shift at ~3000 RPM into *3rd*, and then pull to the finish line. The ET sucks (like 18 or 19-something) but the MPH was almost the same (~90 vs. 92 normally at that elevation).

Spinning the tires hurts your ET a lot, but your trap speed is based on the the square root of the integration of wheel torque(* tire radius) over distance (work), so even if you spin your tires for 100', it's only 7% of the total distance (and you're still getting around 1/2 of the normal torque), so at most sqrt(3.5)% off. Maybe 1-2 mph, at most. (and 100' is a long ways to be spinning the tires!) Just think about it as how fast you'd be going if you only went 1280' instead of 1320' -- it's not that much different.

You learn a lot of odd things in physics. You just don't get to use them much. I'm an electical engineer for a living and I still don't use it much.

Those Caprices are pretty bad (in a good way) cars. For a big boat, they go pretty well. Of course, having a 5.7L engine never hurt anyone ;-).

-Lance

i guess that's how you were gonna run a 14.4

my bad

-jason

http://members.fortunecity.com/fst4dr/carstuff/id4.html CB99SVT's time was 14.538sec at 94.15mph without force induction, N2O, nor 3L.