Exactly. I have learned from my screw ups and being dead wrong. I just don’t pull things out of my hat and post them. I’ve been there and broke all that and more. It costs money and time and it’s frustrating to kill parts.
Hell, I went to a drag race last Sunday (which I almost never do because I’ve BTDT and I’m over it) and it was appalling to see how poorly tuned the chassis were on some of the stick cars. In fact most of the stick cars were just junk. One car had a MPH to run low 10’s and he was getting mid 11 ET’s. Just crazy. It was all in his suspension and tuning of that suspension.
Last year, there was a guy who was beating his tires like a dead army mule. I just suggested to him what he needed to do, because he wasn’t happy with his 60 foot times and his ET in general. And I don’t blame him. He had a 10 second engine program and a mid 11 second chassis tune up. He did one thing and none of the rest and a year later he was still in the same boat as he was last year.
Of course, what I suggested goes against virtually every book, YouTube video, what few magazine articles there ever were on drag racing with a clutch so I’m sure he just can’t believe everyone else is wrong and I’m right. But I’ve been there, broke that and figured it out. Just like my flow bench example, which is 95% of the crap published on flow testing and porting is just wrong so it goes with clutches. I don’t give a crap (for the most part) about converter cars but that’s the same. Guys are stuck with what they thought worked in the 80’s or even the 90’s when converters are so far better than what they are even 20 years ago it’s not funny.
But some guys just won’t learn. And so it is.
