Something I always forget, since I only have one vehicle with it, is traction control. Could they have left it on? That would slow it down, maybe they don't know the key trick and just turned off the button?
Jeep SRT vs Corvette
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Bandimere is 5,800 ft in altitude. Traction control won't slow down a naturally aspirated, AWD car by a second, but 7% thinner air will.
Maybe not an AWD but I saw a new Camaro run mid 10's..........in the 1/8😕
I would think that is more than just traction control. Cluelessness and bad driving probably came into play, there, also. They also put 4 cylinders ecotechs in new camaro's and with the autos, they are not very fast stock.
Like back in the early 1990's there was a guy at the track with a "400 HP" 1979 Camaro running 10.3's in the 1/8th. He took off the hood and his shirt because the car was "too Heavy". He had no explanation why my 100% stock, every option, 200hp 1986 Mustang convert was running 9.4's cruising with the top down other than "I must have done something to it", but he still held fast to the claim that his hoodless camaro made 400 Hp.
It had nothing to do with traction control or the air. He was manualy shifting it and went from first to third or forth. I see it all the time at the track and they wonder why there times are all over the place just leave it in D your not going to shift faster than the computer. If you look at the video again you see the jeep fall flat when the vette passes him. Thats a missed shift
An SRT8 Jeep is not going to run 103 mph at Bandimere "missing a shift". Have you ever driven a Normally aspirated car at 5,800 ft altitude?
From the NHRA Website
ET correction: 0.9405
MPH correction: 1.0563
If the video showed the Jeep running 13.44 @ 109, would anyone here be saying it was "slow" or "missed a shift", because that is the power the motor was making at sea level, just correcting for the altitude.
ET correction: 0.9405
MPH correction: 1.0563
If the video showed the Jeep running 13.44 @ 109, would anyone here be saying it was "slow" or "missed a shift", because that is the power the motor was making at sea level, just correcting for the altitude.
It had nothing to do with traction control or the air. He was manualy shifting it and went from first to third or forth. I see it all the time at the track and they wonder why there times are all over the place just leave it in D your not going to shift faster than the computer. If you look at the video again you see the jeep fall flat when the vette passes him. Thats a missed shift
I never raced at a higher altitude but I know all about it, been drag racing for over 35 years and i can see when some one misses a shift its called experience do you have that experience ? I do know people that have jeeps in stock form that run on that track that have done 12.99 @ 111 would you like me to introduce you to him, he will school you. like i said not starting a pissing contest just giving you facts.
If he missed a shift, would he not have run slower than 109 mph (which was his sea level equivalent)?
That is only 2 mph slower than the guy who "would school" me. Bandimere is 5,800 ft altitude. That is the only "fact" that matters.
That is only 2 mph slower than the guy who "would school" me. Bandimere is 5,800 ft altitude. That is the only "fact" that matters.
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