Well.
You guys know how Murphy's law came into being?
It's a short lived snafu really,...a test pilot was testing explosive decelleration on a rocket sled back in 1949 in Edwards AFB.
The sled had a series of weights hanging on a rail and that were setup so that when the sled was forced into decell mode, the weights would slide forward and "lock" into place. I believe that each weight represented 1g.
Now ol dude was all set up to test a -40g stop, and some ground crew guy forgets to set the lock, and when the sled comes slamming to a halt,....all of the weights didn't stay locked in their little dedicated space, and the test proved inconclusive.
The test was so traumatic that the guy's eye's were bleeding!...... He did all of that for nothing.
It had to be done all over again.
Which brings me to today.
I get the tune loaded,..let the car warm up, and fix my camera into the inside of the passenger side window. I get the car to my dedicated test area, turn the camera on,.....and my computer has lost it's connection with the ecu. I restart the ecu but it takes forever to do that,...so I forego the datalog on the first leg, planning to retry that at my turn around point. ( besides,...we're rolling tape)
The engine's warmed up,..the cameras rolling, I'm at my test track,..I got the new tune installed, and everything out of the interior that could rattle (like those cupholders) that would otherwise fool me into thinking that I'm rattling the motor instead.
All the while the camera is on me, and I'm talkin directly to you. No bag on my head,...no camera head set pointing in the same direction that I'm looking,..It's just me........ and...you....well,...... all of you however many that is. And all of us are piled into the monster,..and we're getting to take a real ride this time.
I wail on the thing. Tires light,..tail comes out from behind, I stuff the thing in second, were still blazing,....the thing cools out in 3rd but we're flat out honkin.
No detonation, no pinging of any kind....... Just the Monster,..screaming all bloody hell and sht in all of his high visibility orangeness.....rolling along at .7 mach blazing towards all of the soccer mommies coming the other way in the other lane.
I get to the turn around point,..retry the datalog thing, and this time, I'm successful.
This is like a space launch now,....
We got Mission Control,....."Flight,...you are go for launch"
Capcom confirms that we are capturing data..."Data is being recorded Flight,..you are go for launch"
You got me in the command module "Roger Mission control,..this is flight,...main ignition sequence in 3,..2...1"...
I stand on it from a 10 MPH roll.... Lets slow it all down.....
The throttle response is instantaneous,.the car goes from 0 p.s.i. to 7 in less than 1 second.
The engine screams up to 6100 RPM, not alot by V8 standards, but you have to realize that this 6 banger was never intended to see north of 4500.
The tires can be heard despite all of the commotion coming from the engine, and the tail coming around tells me that power is getting to the ground. I stuff the thing in second,..and power is still there but it definitely falls off by the time you get into 3rd but,..what the hell,...you're going 80+ MPH, and this all happened in less than 4, maybe 5 seconds...
Now,.....you're sitting there thinking "Why do I need a written account when all of this is on video" Why doesn't he let me see this for myself?"
Murphy's Law is why.
The freakin camera turned itself off at the 1 minute mark. I'm talking to nobody despite that fact that I have completely come out of my shell,...err..... box, and now I'm telling you "no says the finger that, and quoting other member's comments" ,....you don't get none of that.....God freakin.........
But,.....The Monster is now a real boy, and not some wooden puppet.
Evidently the good blue boost fairy must've sprinkled her magic dust on him,.....
Now he's ready to bite some asses.
NYYYAAAHHHHH!!!
