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What an opportune time to do an Aerobody ;)

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Oh, sheeeeiiittt! Now you've got me drooling, Brett!!!!!!!!

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It looks like you were trying to keep up with my Big 4X4!!!

Is it just body damage???????

:(

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Not entirely...:cry:

The windshield is cracked too. Good news is all other gaps between panels and doors look normal; doors open/close normally. The worst of it is the left front corner where most of the damage occurred; bumper and corner of the hood. We'll have to get it apart (this weekend?) to see what else it needs. (I'm still drooling over the possibility of 49th street rockers...yum!)

P.

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Wow Paul that's what happens when you lollygag, I'll go with ya if you go to Brett's place, Brett can see some real 49st rockers LOL.:cheers:

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Paul, Since I'm going to be in Denver that weekend and go see some of the car's practice down at Pike's Peak for the 91st race up the 12.42 miles of the mountain in less than ten minutes for the record I'll make you feel better. The fellow in this video is a six time winner of the event run now on all paved road...and you can see what he did rather near to the start at 9,200' headed up to 14,110' plus however tall you are when you stand. On the lower sections they can hit 130 to maybe 160 mph but as corners get tighter they go more like an average of 76 mph.......Welcome to Pike's Peak...by the way, he walked away from this.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wJka9gYz1ls

this is getting him out of what's left of the car. he could not initially get out himself but is back racing this year. No broken bones, his roll cage saved him and his 1400 hp car was totally wiped out. A few stitches in a hand and stiff and sore.

Paul, your mishap turned out rather well comparatively...no trees in Illinois!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W32EItTbLKo

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Fast to do the race, slow to post the results...every time I check the last one posted is April, 2013. Two weeks plus have now gone by. You'd think they could do a spread sheet by now.

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I would be happy to race either of those '07 ZO6s heads up for ET. It's common for automatics to be 2-3mph slower in trap speed, but still get to the finish line first.

Last week Friday went to Great Lakes to try to validate the car's performance. Ran 10.47 @ 133.2 mph off of a 1.55 60 ft. Density altitude was about 700-800 ft - fairly good air. Very similar to the DA during the 1/2 mile shootout and very similar to the day from a year ago with the 10.44 @ 133 from US41.

I think it's safe to say the difference between the 159 mph in the 1/2 and the 133 mph in the 1/4 is about right since the weather was very spot on. 26 mph gain seems about right for the 441.

KC

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Kevin,

It seems that 25mph may be a good number for estimating 1/2mile based on 1/4 mile trap. As an example, Pete's 129 1/4mile goes ~ 154 1/2mile. That would suggest Al and BobG at about 159+. So it would be a GLORIOUS race between them and the Z06s.

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The results for the Chicago 1/2 mile WANNAGOFAST event is posted on their web site. I took the liberty of beginning the compiling and sorting the raw data and a piece of that preliminary work will appear in the HOTB, perhaps yet this week.

Some pretty interesting stuff. I'm curious what some of us number-crunchers are going to glean from this event! I know Lance will be all over it, and I'm working on an article for next edition of the HOTB that will merge Marc Haibeck's piece on torque and acceleration with average torque under the curve (of the LT5s vs. others) and see how the race data compares.

Good stuff!!