I bought a roller without any sorting out, and found all those little red marks are just for looks, the car must be set up in order to handle correctly. The question is what is correct settings?
it doesnt seem to me that anyone steps forth that is a serious roadracer. no offense to present company, but i havent read anyone posting too much technical info on setup and backed up by actual improvement times via a data logger or such. the point is, we cant even begin to set these cars up until someone who really knows what their doing puts some serious laps on them and identifies a problem if one exists and then finds a solution.
This is the crux of the issue with these cars
: Nobody knows how to tune the chassis and suspension for maximum track performance. Like any race car, you/we are receiving it "as is" and it's up to the owners to sort out. As I mentioned on a previous, similar thread
: The answers we are looking for may be filed away or warehoused somewhere at Ford or Shelby American. More's the pity, but that appears to be the way it is as neither Hi-Tech nor any of the retailers apparently have sorted out their prototypes or dealer demos to provide any information to the customers. And, unless you are a very experienced technical race-type, sorting it out yourself could take nearly the rest of your life.
1. Are these car intended to be real race cars?
If you own, or have driven or ridden in one of these items, they are most certainly not (save for the air conditioning) intended to be a GT or any type of boulevard cruiser. Not a race car as delivered, they most certainly have the potential --- once equipped with the necessary safety features
and properly sorted out.
2. Of all the members in here, how many are going to actually race their car - and if they do, what series is it they run that could justify all the time and expense of going for that last few tenths?
No offense, etc.
In another thread a year or two ago on this forum there was a discussion about what classes the SPF GT40's might be run in in SCCA racing and how to make the car legal for SCCA track work, apparently by at least a couple of experienced and knowledgeable SCCA racing-types. So there is at least some interest in the issue with the SPF items.
Perhaps more important in the broad scheme of things, if you are paying upwards of $130-140K to roll one of these cars off your dealer's lot, wouldn't you want to be able to sort it out to competitively tussle with Viper ACR's (American Club Racers), Corvette ZR1's and such at your local SCCA track days? These cars are a fraction of the cost ($100K) and, while not a vaunted GT40 (
nothing is like one), are very, very cost-effective performance-wise. If I'm going to pay a premium price, I damn well want premium performance to be reasonably attainable. And right now I don't see a way that that's possible. But it just depends on yer druthers with the car
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