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Originally Posted by twinsnails
Apparently one member did it...I recall the post b/c it was back when I was researching suspension upgrades (see post no. 5 in the link below).
Hybrid Suspension Upgrade from Si
Besides, isn't the consensus that it's more fun to go as fast as you can in a slow car than go slow in a fast car  |
My HCH is a screaming go-cart in the 80plus testing laps that I have done on the Road Coarse at Portland International Raceway. Sure, my Champ Car friends are turning laps under a minute, but my times in the 1:40's would be respectable in most club racing events. The SCCA corner workers cheer me on, and love how the car sounds (and doesn't sound) as I drive all out - they way things like "man, you drive the wheels off that thing" and I've had Ferrari's and Vets's that cant keep up in the corners. It's tough to get over 90 on the front and back straight, but your smooth exits from the corners will give you a lot of momentum to help with that problem, and give you a running start against the higher horsepower cars.
I keep video, as well as telemetry of my track times.
I hold the track record for the best hybrid time, and for the worst hybrid fuel milage at 11 mpg. (Although no one has been brave enough to challange me yet)
Soon you will see hybrid tech in F-!, as well as most other venues of racing. Don't forget that it's not how fast you go, it's how quickly you get there. No one laughs at me after they see me on the track .............
If given the choice between driving the street in an Si with my radio blasting so loud I cant hear myself think, and occaisionally making some noise at the green light -- or straping in and putting the pedal to the floor for 160 miles of no stop driving on the edge, and pushing my car to the edge of it's technical abiltiy....... Guess what I'll choose. ....... but I'll be way to cool to laugh at those guys when I drive by and see them sitting there at the red light with your stereo going "boom" "boom".
Attached is a photo of my other car- a Penske PC21. I agree that it's more fun for me to go really fast in my HCH though, as this Penske is only the best drivers in the world can drive this Penske to it's edge.
