Performance meter

Fast Eddy · Post by **Fast Eddy** » Tue Sep 14, 2010 11:15 am

I am planning on going to the 'Pod' on Saturday with Chris (Gordini) to try to upset some M3's in the Metro and his Renault 5 as it is the BMW weekend.

My dilema is which Metro to take. They both have similar power to weight at the moment. The new one has shorter gearing (which could be a dissadvantage) and more torque. I think i could hold the old one in third, but the new one will need a shift into fourth depending on terminal speed attained.

I need to borrow a performance meter that will do 0-60 and 1/4 mile perhaps to give me an idea which is best to take.

Anyone got one locally i can borrow for a couple of hours.

Cheers

Eddy

gary@apt · Post by **gary@apt** » Tue Sep 14, 2010 5:29 pm

yeah i got one you can borrow mate

Fast Eddy · Post by **Fast Eddy** » Tue Sep 14, 2010 7:46 pm

Thanks Gary,

I will be in touch then.

Eddy

Fast Eddy · Post by **Fast Eddy** » Sun Sep 19, 2010 9:53 pm

Big thanks to Gary for letting me borrow his Racelogic unit.

It proved exactly what i needed to know.

The gearing on the new metro is too short ie too many gearchanges to get to 60, 100 and 1/4 mile.

Old metro
0-60 in 6.3 and 1/4 in 14.8
New Metro with higher power/weight
0-60 in 6.8 and 1/4 mile in 15.0

I took the old car to the 'Pod' and got a 14.64 run. Very happy with that.

Time slip proof to come in drag section ok.

Eddy

Post by **maff** » Mon Sep 20, 2010 8:36 am

Nice one! Also proves how accurate the race logic is. Impressed.