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ACCELERATION IN EACH GEAR - flash - 07-29-2009
Here is a little spreadsheet/worksheet for you. The figures are gleeped from Autocar magazine May 27, 1992. It shows the stock times for acceleration in each gear, on a 6 speed car with 16" wheels. I have inserted columns for you to plug in your numbers.
ACCELERATION IN EACH GEAR - Gotter - 07-29-2009
<!--quoteo(post=76375:date=Jul 29 2009, 01:50 PM:name=flash)-->QUOTE (flash @ Jul 29 2009, 01:50 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}><!--quotec-->Here is a little spreadsheet/worksheet for you. The figures are gleeped from Autocar magazine May 27, 1992. It shows the stock times for acceleration in each gear, on a 6 speed car with 16" wheels. I have inserted columns for you to plug in your numbers.
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Sweet, now to find 7 or 8 friends with stopwatches and a mile straightway to test my acceleration.... [img]style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/wink.gif[/img]
ACCELERATION IN EACH GEAR - ds968 - 07-30-2009
how would 17" wheels affect these numbers, since I'm guessing more than half of us have 17s on our cars ? [img]style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/blink.gif[/img]
just to make it even more messed up, for example if my speedometer reads 70 mph, I'm actually going 72 ( tested on a stationary radar a few times )
because of the tire sizes I have on the front but those differences are probably negligible anyway as far as timing the runs go ; maybe a 1/20 second error on the stopwatch [img]style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/huh.gif[/img] which is likely as much as will happen with human error on these exercises, so maybe a wash..
But the 17s might make a bigger diff.. ?