Hi Dick,
At 06:33 PM 5/8/00 -0400, Dick Rasmussen wrote:
>At most of the Virginia Motorsports Park events an end speed of 50 mph
>would be high!, especially yesterday's course.
Exactly - I know that I wasn't going anywhere near that fast at the
end, so I knew right off that those numbers were bogus. I was seeing
end speeds of 51 mph to as high as 90-something!
>What I try to do is use the
>recording tach, etc to pick a reasonable end speed just after the timing
>line and then trim the run at the top of the last accel peak. Since I have
>a recording tach, I'll also check any places where I hit the rev limiter
>and figure the mph from that and see how they correlate.
That's a neat trick - now I wish that I'd sprung for the recording
tach; mine just has a tattle tale for highest rpm (which is usually
right near the rev limiter...).
Thanks,
John Lye
rjl6n@Virginia.edu
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