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El Mirage => El Mirage General Chat => Topic started by: promachine on July 06, 2007, 09:42:44 AM

Title: Hows you trac control?
Post by: promachine on July 06, 2007, 09:42:44 AM
Anybody using it? Hows it working for ya?
Title: Re: Hows you trac control?
Post by: Seldom Seen Slim on July 06, 2007, 10:18:40 AM
It's working just absolutely dandy for me.  When I see the tach swing abruptly up I untwist the throttle a little bit, wait for the taah to settle down, then twist up again.

Further deponent sayeth not, whether TC is legal or not.
Title: Re: Hows you trac control?
Post by: 1212FBGS on July 06, 2007, 12:48:21 PM
tc is legal for SCTA and BNI
kent
Title: Re: Hows you track control?
Post by: JackD on July 06, 2007, 03:13:00 PM
"Fraction control is the necessary ingredient when the seat of you pants lacks the experience to succeed." (me) :wink:
Title: Re: Hows you trac control?
Post by: desotoman on July 06, 2007, 05:56:40 PM
I doubt anyone will fess up to using it.

Tom G.
Title: Re: Hows you trac control?
Post by: JackD on July 06, 2007, 09:17:06 PM
I doubt anyone will fess up to using it.

Tom G.
Using it in any of the 10,364 ways to accomplish it.
Wouldncha just love to have a great big colorful contingency sticker that advertised "Acme Fraction Control Industries." :roll:
Title: Re: Hows you trac control?
Post by: Dakin Engineering on July 06, 2007, 09:55:31 PM
I pick a spot downcourse. If it starts waving at me, I let off a lettle at a time.

Sam
Title: Re: Hows you track control?
Post by: landracing on July 06, 2007, 10:12:13 PM
"Fraction control is the necessary ingredient when the seat of you pants lacks the experience to succeed." (me) :wink:

Whatever Jack, like you have used it with today's technology to tell the difference.... Get real.... "If you lack the experience with it, shut up and let the racer try it  before you demean their driving experience.."
Yep when F1 was using it, it was because they lacked experience to succeed....

Ill be using it, why cause I can, and I have the balls to try it... I have failed many times before and Im not afraid of failure if it doesnt work and Ill be first to tell you, and if it does, well there you go...

Jon
Title: Re: Hows you track control?
Post by: JackD on July 06, 2007, 11:56:03 PM
Open bikers usually get scared of an out of control situation before they get into the trouble that protection inside a cage allows.
If I did use it when it was not said to be cheating and set so many LSR records, how would you know ?
Ford knows, but the S2000 Honda project with the magazine doesn't.
Part of the reason the rule was rescinded is because those that wanted to use it, did it anyway, tech could never find one, the rest didn't care, and still don't.
The 95 Vette I got from GM with the leaky top under the Lemon Law program has it and we turn it off so the HS students can learn to really drive autocross.
Don't be so defensive, use it if You like it and others never will. :wink:
Title: Re: Hows you trac control?
Post by: Dean Los Angeles on July 08, 2007, 09:04:59 PM
I think the easy answer is:
The guy that holds the record that you can't seem to break might be using it!

Historically SCTA banned traction control because the old school guys didn't want it, and it if there were electronics installed it was probably traction control.

Today everything has electronics, and some with built-in traction control. There was no way to prevent it or test for it.

Since SCTA made it legal, you're an idiot if you don't use it.

It's sort of like using a digital camera to drive a nail. Yeah, you could do it, but why not use a hammer?
The point is, if you don't use all the tools available to you, read the first line again!
Title: Re: Hows you trac control?
Post by: joea on July 08, 2007, 10:51:30 PM
i know most can stop faster with manual brakes
than anti-lock electronically controlled ones as well.........

Joe :)
Title: Re: Hows you trac control?
Post by: JackD on July 08, 2007, 11:24:21 PM
I think the easy answer is:
The guy that holds the record that you can't seem to break might be using it!



Since SCTA made it legal, you're an idiot if you don't use it.



It was legal in SCTA before it was made illegal and now it is legal again because few care.
I chose to dial in the power required for the objective and if the vehicle was prepared correctly it took care of the rest.

"Success is in the eye of the beholder I guess." :wink:
Title: Re: Hows you trac control?
Post by: Dynoroom on July 08, 2007, 11:48:21 PM
I prefer to allow my competition to spend a few years trying to figure out traction control. That way we can keep setting records by going fast, not slowing down. Those that think others were using TC think too hard, so knock yourself out.
Title: Re: Hows you trac control?
Post by: Dean Los Angeles on July 09, 2007, 01:11:26 AM
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i know most can stop faster with manual brakes
than anti-lock electronically controlled ones as well.........

Joe
That's because the anti-lock on your car is an el cheapo version that's better at braking than 95% of the idiots out there that just jam the pedal to the floor.

The F1 version stops on a dime and gives you 9 cents back.
Title: Re: Hows you trac control?
Post by: joea on July 09, 2007, 07:32:43 AM
i was being facetious...........especially
on a surface with low coefficient of friction..