now, now, Joe, it's not the same drivers, you're not
there anymore! And if I remember right, you had
fastest GS time at the San Diego Tour on Sunday, in
the big ol' Audi no less, over how many Type R's??
(tee hee)
nice new e-mail address, too!
Annie Gill
98 ITR
--- Joe Goeke <buttheat@hotmail.com> wrote:
> I'll take a light under torqued car with a great LSD
> and double wishbone
> suspension, over a heavier/torque car ANY day.
>
> So you are saying that no good drivers are running
> in GS except for the Type
> R drivers? Look at some of the data this year
> compared to last year with
> the _same_ drivers competing against Type R's now.
> You'll see a HUGE
> difference in times. ---JCG
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Kevin McCormick <ktm@unify.com>
> To: 'Scott Meyers' <solo2@uswest.net>
> Cc: <autox@autox.team.net>
> Sent: Friday, September 03, 1999 8:45 AM
> Subject: RE: The 'New' G Stock?
>
>
> > Ah, you're looking at only HP - look at the
> pounds/torque ratio - (as Joe
> > did earlier) - the Type R is worse off then the
> others. Also, the rev's
> > required for each of the respective HP numbers
> show an intersting story as
> > well. Not to mention 15x6 wheels compared to the
> rest at 16x7 or so. The
> > Road & Track article on the new Celica says 6.5
> for 0-60 (Toyota's
> numbers)
> > with the six speed.
> >
> > You just have good drivers in Type R's now - how
> is that different than
> > Neon's? The Camaro's and DSM cars will do fine, I
> expect (remember that a
> > Prelude came in 3rd last year, BTW...).
> >
> > I agree, though - leave things as they are and put
> the Celica in there.
> > Don't much with what is working...
> >
> >
> > Kevin McCormick
> >
> >
> >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: Scott Meyers [mailto:solo2@uswest.net]
> > > Sent: Friday, September 03, 1999 8:32 AM
> > > To: Kent Rafferty
> > > Cc: autox@autox.team.net
> > > Subject: Re: The 'New' G Stock?
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > Kent Rafferty wrote:
> > >
> > > > So, potentially you could have the following
> match-up
> > > > in GS (excluding the Type R, etc for now),
> correct?
> > > >
> > > > Car hp weight
> lbs/hp
> > > > --------------------- --------
> ---------- ---------
> > > > Audi TT Quattro 225 3200 14.2
> > > > Audi S4 250 3500
> 14.0
> > > > DSM AWD 210 3100 14.7
> > >
> > > Firebird V-6 200hp 3200
> 16.0 but rear
> > > drive + posi &
> > > big rubber.
> > > (ever notice the
> engine
> > > setback in one of
> > > these?)
> > >
> > > Type R 195 2400
> 12.3 Wow!
> > > All the good
> > > stuff *and*
> this power to
> > > weight. No wonder
> > > it dominates.
> > >
> > > I don't know. With all of the "new good stuff"
> coming out
> > > that is classed in G
> > > Stock, it might make sense to leave all there
> for another
> > > season and see just
> > > how things stack up.
> > >
> > > Better than making a lot of wrong guesses based
> upon "I thought".
> > >
> > > And after looking at the above, the Type R seems
> to be way
> > > out of the scope of
> > > the other cars.
> > >
> > > Scott Meyers
> > >
> >
>
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