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Originally Posted by blykins
Scott, your ability and purpose for the car is above the norm....not many guys here are accustomed to driving late models.
My father has a 2010 Z06 that's making about 680 hp at the flywheel. Things happen so quickly out on the street with heavy throttle application that a passenger isn't even part of the equation.
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I couln't agree more about passengers. Only 2 people have been with me on a full throttle run. The first was my 70 year old dad and we ran it up to about 160... he wasn't fazed. The other was a buddy with whom I race sprint cars. 2 days later my buddy called and strongly urged selling the car. When a 410 sprint car driver (who are known to be a little "touched") is convinced I'm going to die, maybe the whole thing is an exercise in stupidity. But.. you asked for imput from chassis guys. While I don't claim to be one, I did design all the suspension pick up points and arm lengths in Solidworks and run motion analysis on the system. The chassis model was also run on Newman/Haas' simulation software when they designed the dampers and spec'ed the spring rates. I've also spent contless hours with cars on scales (Note: Patrick disagrees with my procedure) tweeking setups and, as you stated, raced dirt late models (and sprint cars). So, I could settle for "shade-tree" chassis guy. The point being, all I ever read is how 600 hp is useless... can't hook up... dangerous...etc. I'm saying that I can short shift into 2nd gear, go full throttle with about 700 hp on street tires (335 PS2's) and not get wheelspin. Rear percentage is a big, big part of that.