RTH2 Results Are In!

[andrewb70]

After the show, Tony Bolton clicked off a 63.817 in the air ride Buick. So you could say that a big ol' airbag equipped A-body beat all of the Camaros. And I knw that a lot of you don't want to hear this, but the airbag cars ran hard, hooked up and ran with the metal spring cars.

Same holds true for other parts and systems. The top three cars have the following parts:
Rear suspension:
#3 Camaro: leaf spings
#2 Camaro: air bar
#1 Camaro: Quadra Link
Front Clip:
#3 Camaro: Aftermarket (modified)
#2 Camaro: Stock clip with air ride strong arms
#1 Camaro: DSE clip
Transmissions:
#3 Camaro: Manumatic
#2 Camaro: Manumatic
#1 Camaro: Manual

To me what all that really means is that the biggest change that you can make to your car's performance is improve your driving skills. All this talk of what setup is best, what springs, what bushings, 4-link, 3-link, blah, blah, blah...All those variable translate to differences that are measured in fractions of a second at the track. Improvements in driver skill will translate to multiple seconds at the track.



Look at these cars:

1968 Camaro Steve Chryssos: 63.947 +1 = 65.947 sec.
1971 Camaro Brett Voelkel: 64.186 sec.
1969 Camaro Kyle and Stacy Tucker: 64.107 sec.
Buick 63.817

All the cars listed above are very different yet they all ran very similar times. The common variable between them is the driver.

Andrew