[john chesnut]

I relayed my experience to illustrate the dynamics of the longer wheelbase, wider track, better balance, and lower center of gravity of my T bucket to the Cobra dimensions. Both cars have the exact same drivetrain and suspension. The year that I ran the T bucket at Run n Gun was the first time I drove the car. Those that know me know that I have a habit of showing up with cars that I haven't finished yet!
I was runniing rock hard run flat tires, the computer was set up wrong and was in full rich mode the entire time, on the big sweeping corner the engine quit running for a couple of seconds because of a fuel stavation problem, I ran the stock brakes, sway bars and bushings, ect. Based on weight and quarter mile calculations I think that the engine was putting out about 350hp. Even so I ran very fast times.
I believe that just switching to racing slicks and fixing the 2 issues that I had that I would have cut 5-6 seconds off of my time. This woulld put me in the 1 minute 5 second range. I think that the fastest time at the event that year was around 1 min 5 seconds. That time was posted by Aaron Quine in the full race prepared Mongoose GTP car. Aaron is a great driver and the GTP car is a great race machine Aaron in the GTP owns alot of track records around the country. A Noble with 750 hp, racing slicks and a great driver was a couple of ticks slower.
Again, I am not a driver. I built my car for about 30,000 dollars. I think that my car proves how great the Z06 engineering is. That if you combine the Z06 parts with Colin Chapmans approach to race cars (light as possible) it is possible to build a serious track car for not much money. I am hoping that I can be at Run n Gun this year with racing slicks and get Aaron to drive it! Ir would be fun!