[Shotimes] 11.87 second SHO...

[Ron Porter]

No, Ted's not a very big guy. He showed up a the Holiday Inn at the '99
Convention one night and I met him. Yeah, that does sound kinda heavy for an
'89. Did he have heavy wheels/tires or something like that?

Ron Porter 

-----Original Message-----
From: shotimes-admin@autox.team.net [mailto:shotimes-admin@autox.team.net]
On Behalf Of Mark Nunnally
Sent: Thursday, May 29, 2003 10:09 AM
To: shotimes
Subject: Re: [Shotimes] 11.87 second SHO...


>I went to the track with about 5 gal of fuel in the
> tank.  The actual weight was right at 3500lb.

    I drove Ted's old car when Tal had it.  I remember it being a stripper
'89 (like my 89 and Tal's black 89).  I've had my 89 on 3 different scales,
in fact on the same scale at the drags when Tal had his '89 on the scale.  I
had just put in the 3.2L, car/interior was still stock.  Both mine and Tal's
were within just a few lbs on the scale (we both weigh about the same) 3330
or so for both cars, driver, and a 1/4 tank of gas.  I've never met Ted,
maybe he's a big guy :)

>After posting a couple of smoking tire high 14 sec runs, I posted a high
13sec@105mph run
> following a perfect high rpm launch.  We
> rolled my car up, and after several warm-ups, it touched 270hp at the
wheels at 7500-7600rpm.

270 @ the wheels is around 325-330 hp at the crank.  Which in a 3350 lb ride
works out about 107 in the traps in a perfect world, so the numbers at least
match up.

mark
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