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Originally Posted by aaguirre123
Common!? Who are you kidding here? Good driver + best suspension setup + best exhaust setup + best tires - rear wing - forced induction does not equal 2 tenth of a sec behind a well setup FI scion racing speed academy car driven by Pete and Dave. When SA dynoed their car it made 263whp 203 torque; 2 tenth of a sec against those kind of numbers is unbelievable. SA Scion Racing also has good suspension setup, good after market exhaust and good aerodynamic add-ons. Although Dave and Pete are not world class drivers but they in my humble opinion good drivers, would no just be ahead by 2 tenth of a sec against an NA frs. Again, are you kidding me?
If you are that good of a driver you shouldn't be driving against non-pro drivers. You should be driving with F1 drivers instead.
But I bet instead you guys did something else with the "stock" NA engine. I bet you modified the engine with Bigger valves, port and polished heads, higher compression pistons, lighter forged rods, lighter crank pulley and flywheels. Also race gas within 1500 km between race tracks.
If everything I say is not true then I apologized in advance. I am just very skeptical that a NA "stock" FA motor will only be 2 tenth of a sec behind a FI non-modified FA20 engine with 263whp / 203 torque. No matter how good of a driver you are, it is just unbelievable for a "stock" NA FA20 equipped frs/brz/gt86 will be just 2 tenth of a second behind another frs that is FI with 263 whp/203 torque.
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First of all, all those N/A mods *might* get you to 210whp on pump gas, maybe. Still 50+whp shy of the SA car.
You're forgetting two very critical things in your "analysis".
1) Dave has only driven Calabogie a handful of times, and not in a few years. Andre drives it ALL the time. Look at how the lap times compared at TMP (where Dave has billions of laps, and Andre not so much). Andre also knocked off some really quick times on the DDT, he's no slouch of a driver at all.
2) Dave and Pete were on R1R's, Andre/Norm/Kenny were on RE71R's most of the time. There's an easy 2-3 seconds difference between those tires. If you're comparing notes, that's almost as much difference the SA car gained from the transformation of N/A with no aero to S/C with aero.
Still don't believe anyone, look at the results from the top speed challenge (1/2 mile, running start). The SA car was much quicker through that.