bjuice

i come from a round track background...in GENERAL taking the timing down from its sweet spot will lug thecar somewhat off the corners..but then your trying to make this up by placing more gear in the car...what i would suggest is keeping the motor operating at its max potential( max timing) and test the car at whatever track you want to run..getting the right gear in rondy-round is critical..WAY TOO OFTEN round track drivers place way to much gear in the car...which causies the car to come off the corners hard ( sometime spinning) then the car stops pulling way before driving in the next turn..the best senerio is for the car to pull hard just up to the point of Lifting and setting up the next corner...Driver skills come into play here also..some can drive her deep some can't

Aspahlt racing requires a little looser car ( on the norm) allowing the driver to set up the car in the corners..

The success of a roundy-round car ( team) GREATLY depends on the driver and his ability to understand what is happening to the car and being able to communicate it back to the Crew chief..without this and your screwed...

One of our local short track superstars and one time craftsman truck driver ( Toby Porter) can get in a car another driver cannot get around the track and drive the wheels off it and when a race ( late model asphalt)

Bottom line you can have a weak motor with an awesome chassis set up and you can run up front in roundy round and many strong motors with Horrible handling chassis's run in the rear...SO YES a stop watch will come in more useful than a dyno in this case.

In My opinion there is much more invloved in ROUNDY-Round weekend warrior racing than Drag racing..i have done both.




Bubster is real good on Roundy-round set up s etc....


a couple of name here locally that has done well in DIRT TRACK is HOT-ROD LE-MANCE AND JOHNNY HIGHTOWER