Demon and Bill your hitting hit the nail on the head. DemonSVT can atest to what I am going to say! The first 60ft of a run will tell you how bad or good you ran with out looking at the rest of your times slip. 60ft mark is either FLY or Crash!!!
So PHATSVT ran a 14.2@101.XX. With a 2.7 60ft mark. So average tour gets around 2.3/2.2 60ft. So looking at the numbers he does have a 13 sec car on paper. True.
TQ in some application can be too much. In the Tour we don't have the natural setup to use TQ effectivly. We have to do things like The TQ Strap/Solid Motor Mounts/Quaife/ect... And lastly Driver ability.
I have seen First hand what a bad 60ft can do at the track with the tours, especially with PHATSVT car. I know DemonSVT see's the same things at KCIR. Heck when us Kanas CEG'ers get togeather the first two things we look at are 1/4&60ft. Most the time you can tell from the wheel hop when we launch! Those are the two biggest things. 60ft being the biggest because that is where races are won or lost.
All the hp TQ in the world but you can't get traction.. What are you gonna do? Needing more TQ will do nothing positive. Well, a nice toasty burn out is pretty neat thought
