Hey Andrew,
Why don`t you give the Black Spur a go or the FTG side of Mt
Dandenong! Should get some good readings there!
Kris.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Andrew Greenbury" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, November 13, 2002 10:43 AM
Subject: RE: 1600 measured cornering performance...
> Hi Terry,
>
> Yeah thats exactly it - It was part of my work; I wasnt out to find
> the outer limits of my (recently on the road) 510, especially on a
> public road, although it wasnt occupied at the time.
>
> Having said that, the 50-60 kmh speeds werent speed limit
> imposed - I reckon you'd be hard pressed to take the corner much
> more than 60 kmh. Maybe if any Melb listers want to have a go, we
> could hook up the data logger to get some quantative measure of
> the 1600s performance limits?
>
> Andrew
>
> > Andrew,
> > Realistically, what sort of speeds could a well sorted 1600 negotiate
that
> > bit of road safely. You seem to have only done the test at on or a bit
above
> > legal road speeds, great results but it would be interesting to see a
bit of
> > a go with the same gear. If so, then .9g lateral is impressive, but
pushed a
> > 1600 will achieve very similar to race prepped cars and pretty much in
> > street trim.
> >
> > regards
> > Terry
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > [mailto:membersozdat_owner@;datascribe.com.au]On Behalf Of Andrew
> > Greenbury
> > Sent: Tuesday, 12 November 2002 2:31 PM
> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Subject: 1600 measured cornering performance...
> >
> >
> > hi List,
> >
> > For part of my work the other day I had to hook up a data aquisition
> > system to my road 1600 to evaluate a sensor during cornering, so I
> > thought I'd share some of the results if anyone was interested
> > (screen dumps at):
> > http://opax.swin.edu.au/~185404/data/
> >
> > For Melbourne listers, the corner in question is the Mitcham end
> > entrance to the Eastern Fwy - a smooth constant radius (of about
> > 30m) 180 degree right hand turn.
> >
> > In the top screen, the red trace is lateral (cornering) acceleration,
> > blue is longnitudinal (forward/braking) acceleration, and the green is
> > vertical. The bottom screen is speed.
> >
> > As can be seen, the little 510 reached ~0.9G cornering
> > acceleration, while still remaining very balanced. For comparison, a
> > V8Supercar reaches ~1.5G, and Phil Morriss's FJ24 racecar
> > generated ~1.2G at Robroy hillclimb.
> >
> > Regards,
> > Andrew
> >
> >
> >
>
>
>
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