06-28-2006, 09:50 PM
To touch on a few of the questions:
Restrictions/penalities:
Throttle body restrictor, cutting the volume by around 1/3. ~125 pounds ballast. Horrible ABS system (straight off the V6 mustangs). Until those things where implemented it was winning, yep. The ABS system is getting changed due to safety concerns. We tested the new ABS system this past weekend and it was very nice.
Refinement:
Ford does have several million bucks invested into the FR500C. It has three way remote resavor shocks and varous other things that are best left for an in person conversation. It handles really well and can hold a line as well as the Porsches and BMW's. Tell me that didn't take refinement ;-).
Ford/Multimatic tested the car at 5 tracks if I recall properly. The Ford engineers are on top of everything at every Grand Am event studying what the teams are doing and even better, they actually listen to the teams and drivers. So while it wasn't a three season car upon delivary, it had a lot more refinement than most cars there did after a season of testing.
I'm not going to disagree that it needs refinement (isn't that an infinante loop?) but I will strongly disagree that an off the shelf car shoudln't have won. That's what it was designed to do. It hurt a lot of egos and thus the penalities so harsh that it hasn't won a race this season.
Restrictions/penalities:
Throttle body restrictor, cutting the volume by around 1/3. ~125 pounds ballast. Horrible ABS system (straight off the V6 mustangs). Until those things where implemented it was winning, yep. The ABS system is getting changed due to safety concerns. We tested the new ABS system this past weekend and it was very nice.
Refinement:
Ford does have several million bucks invested into the FR500C. It has three way remote resavor shocks and varous other things that are best left for an in person conversation. It handles really well and can hold a line as well as the Porsches and BMW's. Tell me that didn't take refinement ;-).
Ford/Multimatic tested the car at 5 tracks if I recall properly. The Ford engineers are on top of everything at every Grand Am event studying what the teams are doing and even better, they actually listen to the teams and drivers. So while it wasn't a three season car upon delivary, it had a lot more refinement than most cars there did after a season of testing.
I'm not going to disagree that it needs refinement (isn't that an infinante loop?) but I will strongly disagree that an off the shelf car shoudln't have won. That's what it was designed to do. It hurt a lot of egos and thus the penalities so harsh that it hasn't won a race this season.
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1985 Merkur XR4Ti Track Car
2013 Ford F-150 FX4 Ecoboost
E46 BMW 330Ci Sport 5spd
1973 Honda CL125S
1985 Honda CX500
2013 Arctic Cat 700 ATV
2017 Onewheel +