i thought i share it with you guys. i'm working on an article which will use this gg graph.

green - 996 TT (520 hp, ~3800 w/driver/passenger), driven by my student (1st time ever! he did great)
red - 996 TT (520 hp, ~3800 w/driver/passenger), driven by me (going 8.5-9/10th)
blue - civic (135 hp, 2300 lbs w/driver) driven by me going 10/10th

996 has decent street tires on (continental sports contact 2), huge 15" brembo 8 piston, 4 pads (per caliper) setup. by seat of pants it didn't feel as good as the stock "big reds" though. but perhaps maybe the sheer straight line speed (151 mph on front straight of willow springs) was just so fast it didn't feel like it was slowing down enough.

civic has good street tires (195/60/14 falken azenis), with the pepboys raybestos ceramic enhanced pads, thus only 0.9 g underbraking. with good pads it has recorded 1.1g on the logger.

both cars were in 3rd gear, never into second. look at how much acceleration the TT has. cornering grip was good despites so so tires thanks to huge foot print and AWD.

 

Interesting data.
DL90 is pretty cool.

 

hmm, i'm doing a little rearch and came across this article titled "a question of style". kinda nifty. read it:

http://www.karisma1.demon.co.uk/gpl/tb-fc.html

 

Interesting. However, how good would it work in a FWD car?

 

More reading http://www.virtualv8.com/ggdiag.htm

http://www.temporal.com.au/agp2000.htm


[Modified by DB1-R81, 9:03 PM 2/14/2003]

 

It's odd that you are able to generate more acceleration and braking G than with the owner driving his own car?! Lateral results I can fathom but it seems that your sudent can improve his straight line acceleration. Tell him to floor it and keep the steering wheel straight.

 

it should work very well. most of the aggressive FWD setup makes the car rotate well. and you just drive flat out, and steer... so early apex and running the curbs seems appropriate...

 

couple of other graphs from the same logs...




the forward thrust is very intoxicating and a grin genrator!! thinking back, i wish i did couple of WOT from 1st, and 2nd gear... arrg. must remember next time!



$7500 vs. $125k hardware, not too bad ehh? heheh. goes to show you can be cheap and still have lots of fun.



[Modified by GhettoRacer, 12:18 PM 2/21/2003]