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Re: G-Tech data on Turbo bugeye

To: "Spridget List" <spridgets@autox.team.net>
Subject: Re: G-Tech data on Turbo bugeye
Date: Mon, 6 Oct 2003 17:07:19 -0400 FILETIME=[DA7A6290:01C38C4D]
References: <007201c38c1f$d1b91b70$6664640a@internal.vgl.ucdavis.edu> <000c01c38c44$732d01a0$9f23c043@gregmonf> <000f01c38c4b$7f2605e0$6664640a@internal.vgl.ucdavis.edu>
Actually, it's Greg....... :^)

Interesting gizmo. I don't keep up with what the latest 'toys' are. The last
system I fooled with cost five grand. The formula assumes no wheelspin,
which all else being equal, yields the lowest ET.

GM



----- Original Message ----- 

> Thanks George,
>
> I'll run a few 1/4 mile times this next weekend.  The G-Tech does 1/4 mile
> times and speeds, but I didn't bother to try out that feature the first
> time.  It isn't clever enough to do more than one measurement per run so
you
> have to choose which thing you want to look at for each run.  I believe
that
> if you set for 0-60, it automatically does 1/4 mile times and speed if you
> continue to accelerate after 60 MPH.  I think the new version for
> $$toodamnmuch does more stuff at once and records, graphs, downloads,
washes
> windows etc.  The included instructions warn you to go for it at the start
> of a run as air drag becomes more of a factor with increasing speed.  I
> didn't want to snap an axle so I didn't really burn the tires as
> aggressively as if I were sitting next to another car at a stop light.
>
> Glen





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