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Greetings all:
Having not owned the Challenger HC RE before I only have the Charger HC to go off of. How accurate are the performance timers and such on these cars?
Synopsis: I ask because I took my soon out after we washed the car the other day and ran a really great time.
Details: as I do most of my driving on local highways paved with the high-temp mixture produced by contractors for the states west texas highways that is where I have done most of my acceleration testing. With the Charger and 305 drag radials it generally averaged around low threes as it is a very poor surface for grip (and this was backed up with the Red Eye in some basic familiarization runs) . We also have other surfaces available, most specifically thousands and thousands of feet of old 1940s and 1950s air force base runways. When I have run on these before I found that old concrete (which is amazing compared to what is considered "good" concrete work today) is outstanding as a launch surface. After washing the car my son and I went out to the runways / apron, and just screwing around the car ran, according to it, a 2.9. After seeing this, I tried it again a little more seriously, and pulled a 2.7. We then adjourned to a more secluded practice area (with the aforementioned high-temp road surface) and it ran the standard time and I also couldn't seem to fool it with wheel spin either.
Conclusion: if this car is running 2.7 0-60 on the runway concrete, I'll never run anywhere else. If I end up having to keep the car, I'll swap 20x11s with 325 R888Rs on it and just go to town. However, I suspect there is some aberration in the system that allowing erroneous times through. Please provide your thoughts and knowledge on this subject.
Mystery: First, I'm sure everyone loves folks who do not read the manual asking how to do things on here. I will now be guilty of this. My Charger did not have the little camera icon on the gauge / performance screens. How does this work? I'm assuming it records for a set time, or does it just take a snapshot of that particular screen? It always seemed to me it would make sense to be able to record those read outs and transfer them somehow, I am guessing Dodge finally implemented something like that?
Magnified
Having not owned the Challenger HC RE before I only have the Charger HC to go off of. How accurate are the performance timers and such on these cars?
Synopsis: I ask because I took my soon out after we washed the car the other day and ran a really great time.
Details: as I do most of my driving on local highways paved with the high-temp mixture produced by contractors for the states west texas highways that is where I have done most of my acceleration testing. With the Charger and 305 drag radials it generally averaged around low threes as it is a very poor surface for grip (and this was backed up with the Red Eye in some basic familiarization runs) . We also have other surfaces available, most specifically thousands and thousands of feet of old 1940s and 1950s air force base runways. When I have run on these before I found that old concrete (which is amazing compared to what is considered "good" concrete work today) is outstanding as a launch surface. After washing the car my son and I went out to the runways / apron, and just screwing around the car ran, according to it, a 2.9. After seeing this, I tried it again a little more seriously, and pulled a 2.7. We then adjourned to a more secluded practice area (with the aforementioned high-temp road surface) and it ran the standard time and I also couldn't seem to fool it with wheel spin either.
Conclusion: if this car is running 2.7 0-60 on the runway concrete, I'll never run anywhere else. If I end up having to keep the car, I'll swap 20x11s with 325 R888Rs on it and just go to town. However, I suspect there is some aberration in the system that allowing erroneous times through. Please provide your thoughts and knowledge on this subject.
Mystery: First, I'm sure everyone loves folks who do not read the manual asking how to do things on here. I will now be guilty of this. My Charger did not have the little camera icon on the gauge / performance screens. How does this work? I'm assuming it records for a set time, or does it just take a snapshot of that particular screen? It always seemed to me it would make sense to be able to record those read outs and transfer them somehow, I am guessing Dodge finally implemented something like that?
Magnified
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