From owner-corrado-l@teleport.com Sat Sep 14 14:30 PDT 1996
Date: Sat, 14 Sep 1996 17:21:02 -0400
From: Frank 
Subject: Braking and acceleration times Nick vs Frank.
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Well, Nick came again today, we took a ride to a street close from here
and we tested our braking and acceleration performances.

1st, here's our cars :

Nick : 94 VR6, 205/50/15 stock rims Yoko AVS almost new, P-chip, P-flow,
no short shift kit, stock pads, discs and calipers, stock suspension.

Frank : 93 VR6, 215/40/17 Toyo T1 almost new, TSW Stealth 17x7.5 6
pounds heavier than stock wheels and 0.5-0.7" taller, P-chip, custom air 
box, grinded T-body, custom short shift kit, carbon pads CC's blue
compound, stock calipers and Euro/Brembo new discs, NS Race springs and
Bilstein sport shocks.

We were BOTH sitting in the car, one was timing, the other was driving.
So the times are too HIGH, cuz we were both in the car.

Braking times :
>From 70km/h to 0km/h in 3rd gear. (43.5mph to 0)

Frank : My time when the pads where enough hot, was about 1.6, just did
few stops, not a bunch. ABS didn't worked a lot, just a little and wheel
blocking was almost imperceptible. My other time was 1.87sec. I bet I
could do better, but didn't wanted to do more.

Nick: His braking time was ABOUT 2.1-2.2sec, cuz I screwed up the last
stop, I pushed on the buttom too late. His other stop was 2.74sec.
ABS did work quite a lot, and there was some "long" wheel blockings,
sometimes, before the ABS stopped them. He could also do better, if he
could prevent the wheels from blocking, which seems to be quite hard.

Acceleration times :
>From a 0km/h to 80km/h in 2nd gear. (0 to 49.7mph)

Nick : 6.44sec did about 3-4 tests. The other one I remember is 6.74sec.
Frank : 6.7sec, did only 2 tests (I remember now Nick, I only did 2.)
and the other one was 6.99sec, with a VERY BULLSHIT start, like the
second one, but that one was a bit better, though still bullshit. We
did not swap cars, that's another test we should do another time.
We both had (and still have) some probs with the starts. We could do the 
0-80km/h in about 5.7-6.0sec if we could do better starts.
Our times seems to be about the same, though I'm sure I have 0.2-0.4sec
less than him on a run up to 100km/h (62mph).

L8r!
--
"Die scho(Ж)nste Verbindung zwischen zwei Punkten ist eine Kurve."
(The nicest distance between 2 points is a curve.)
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Frank	E-Mail : Lamonde@Microtec.net

'93 Pearl Green RSR VR6 : Power cloth Recaros, Schroth belt, ATE fluid,
Ray-Ban green tints, custom airbox, Euro front chin spoiler, AutoTech
front stressbar, 5-brake lights, TSW Stealth/ToyoProxes T1 215/40ZR17,
NS Race springs/Bilstein sports, black calipers, Carbon fiber engine and
dash covers, Cool Carbon's blue compound carbon pads/Euro Brembo discs,
P-chip, K&N filter, blue Euro headlights, Autolook pedal covers, HD and
polyU. bushings, Mobil 1, removed suitcase, custom T-body/short shift
kit, and few other goodies, 30k miles, 193hp.
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