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Join Date: May 2007
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Boy does this look familiar
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Re: Boy does this look familiar
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Join Date: Jun 2010
Location: back in lone pine
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Re: Boy does this look familiar
ouch .thats got to hurt one pride as well as pocket book . thats why i never go to the strip with street tires ,our cars have just too much power , to mess with street tires at the strip .jmho dom thanx for the video .you allways come up with some jewels
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Re: Boy does this look familiar
I enjoy the C4 with it's classic weight distribution dynamic for sure. I have a c6 and it's great when you find the line on a road course, but get loose on the street and it ***-arounds very quickly.
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Re: Boy does this look familiar
Boy the pattern of these crashes are eerily similar. Again, here.
http://www.dpccars.com/car-videos-08...drag-strip.htm |
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Join Date: Dec 2004
Location: Jacksonville, FL USA
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Re: Boy does this look familiar
I don't want to throw rocks at a tire company....but this is testing the limits of coincidence, no?
What kind of tires do these guys have in common, if any? I'm not fluent in NHRA rules, so this maybe a stupid Q. If you run in stock class, what are the rules for tires? Oh, I just thought of another dumb Q. Were all those crashes from tire issues or was there a rear end failure involved? All of that was depressing to watch!
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Join Date: Mar 2004
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Re: Boy does this look familiar
Look's like it could be broken axle syndrome , due to wheel hop. Very common with the C6's. Passenger side axle breaks and the car hook's right. Driver thinks he can drive through it....suprise.
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All C6s come with the GY Supercar F1 EMT. That's the tire I had on my car and the behavior felt eerily similar. Second gear shift about halfway down the track, tail waggle first left then headed for the opposite side of the track and into the guardrail. Now we have no way of knowing what tire, if it was a tire or half shaft or whatever. Just brought back ugly memories. I had taken the car down the track a number of times with those tires on previous track visits. Each time, the 1-2 shift acted as I expected with the tires actually hooking better than the previous ones but even if they slipped, the car tracked straight with feathering the gas until they would hook again. This time the car began crabbing or pushing left. It was not particularly warm but other cars had gone down the track with no incident including C6Zs. |
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