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Originally Posted by Anthony
Why didn't you put on a bigger power adder, supercharger/turbo set-up?
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They are requiring a minimum tread wear rating of 200 this year, my Hoosiers from last year had a rating of 40. I designed all the changes around the Michelin PS2's with a 220 TW rating. My shock valving, spring rates and engine are set up for these tires. It has 607 rwhp now, a bigger Whipple would be about 750 which would make it really difficult to drive in the autox. Turbo's make lots more power but don't have low end torque or HP so they wouldn't be as good in the autox either. You have to compromise your set up so that it will work on all three events and be easy to modulate and drive, especially critical on these street tires. Under hard acceleration it is either slightly spinning or just hooked up now. I just wish I could get about 400 pounds out but that would only be possible if I dumped the blower/intercooler and associated hardware and went with an aluminum big inch small block and got rid of the radio, air bags, power windows, glass rear window and fire wall window (not in the cards) .