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NewStangNewbee

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How come quarter mile calculators dont ask about your rear and for the quarter mile?
 

Aaron 4.6

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The calculators can only really take a few things into consideration. Some power application efficiency must be assumed. If your car makes X amount of power, the calculator must assume you can get Y percent of it applied at Z rate. It would be an equally valid question to ask:

Why doesn't the calculator ask about your spring rates? Or type of tire? Or air pressure? Or what your shift points are?

Its really just a rude tool to be used for approximations. The same car will run much different times on bald street tires as opposed to hot slicks. The calculator doesn't know that...
 

NewStangNewbee

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muy bien, gracias senor Aaron 4.6
 
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