Real world GT3 figures

[s3am]

Took my Datalogger to Vmax yesterday.

Best figures of:

0-30: 2.0
0-60: 4.9
0-100: 10.6
0-120: 15.4
0-150: 27.0

Not bad I thought considering Porsche quote 0-124 in 15.5 and 0-150 in 25.5 and the surface was cold and my tires were brand new.

:)

Sam

[dazren]

Nice one.

I do always wonder just how many revs I'd have to give my car and then slip the clutch to achieve the sub 4 seconds to 60 the magazines usually quote!

Do you know if any of the other cars used dataloggers on the day? I think I saw some sort of GPS thingamy on Adam's car roof at some stage.

DAZ

>> Edited by dazren on Monday 19th September 17:02

[s3am]

My bro said Adam got 9 secs to 100. Which is pretty good for that surface on that day. I' sure he'll be around soon.

I tended to hover around 3500 for a sharp getaway with a smartly lt out clutch, any less and it bogs down, more and the rears just light up. Having said that the tyres were new and not at their best at the time. Now they're nicely scrubbed in!

[GuyR]

I data-logged some runs in Adams car and also mine.

I logged a 0-100mph in 8.2 in mine, obviously without being anyhere near as abusive as a factory/magazine tester would be.

Next time I'll be happy to data-log yours Daz and a few others for comparison.

Guy

[DanH]

Which unit are you using to datalog? The DL-1 is pretty good, but purely G-sensor based ones are very hard to setup to get accurate results.

Not that anyones quoting figures that sound off. Just curious.

[dazren]

GuyR said:

Next time I'll be happy to data-log yours Daz and a few others for comparison.

Excellent, I'll take you up on the offer.

DAZ

[s3am]

Its a purely G Based sensor. In car it seemed pretty damn close to what was going on. For reference my bro's CSL which did 166 down the straight got 5 dead to 60 and 12 to 100. Seems OK to me. Not that I don't wish I got 8.2 with my car.

PS Guy, If anyone else told me they measured their own car at 8.2 to 100, I would've laughed!

>> Edited by s3am on Monday 19th September 17:54

[GuyR]

I use a Race-Technology AX22, which is accelerometer and also GPS based. It's used by a many professional companies and also some car mags. It's not as good as a Racelogic V-Box or Datron, but they are a lot more expensive at £6k+ each.

[DanH]

GuyR said:

I use a Race-Technology AX22, which is accelerometer and also GPS based. It's used by a many professional companies and also some car mags. It's not as good as a Racelogic V-Box or Datron, but they are a lot more expensive at £6k+ each.

Sounds good.

Do you get a lot of power squirm accelerating that quickly?

I was going to come on Sunday with the RS, but work cancelled my plans last minute

[s3am]

Shame you couldn't make it Dan, I haven't had a good look at an RS in a while and it would have been interesting to compare cars also.

[DanH]

I'm at Bedford with easytrack on the 1st Oct (I think!) in case you are attending.

[ChrisW.]

GT3 Mk1 or Mk11 ?

I guess the difference to 100 should be around 1.4 seconds ??

[s3am]

Mine? Mark 2.

[shoestring7]

Don't Porsche take their acceleration figures 2 up and with a full tank?

SS7

[steve rance]

It's the lap times that set's the GT3 apart in all of it's guises

Steve R

[s3am]

shoestring7 said:

Don't Porsche take their acceleration figures 2 up and with a full tank?

Probably, I only posted the figures for peoples interest. I wasnt willing to give it the kind of abuse road testers and factoy drivers are going to!

I thought they weren't too bad.

[Glenn McMenamin]

steve rance said:

It's the lap times that set's the GT3 apart in all of it's guises Steve R

Amen to that !!!!


G.

[adamt]

We used Guys data logger and the sad thing is my girlfriend beat me on her first attempt for 0-60 where she got 4.62 and i got 4.64

It took me 4 or 5 goes and no PSM to get 4.2.....*ahem*

anywho the 0-100 was 8.5 i think,

Guy could you post a graph of your car and my car, i think it would make seriously interesting reading

adam

>> Edited by adamt on Thursday 22 September 12:36

[GuyR]

I'll have a look, problem is I never did a full run from a standing start to the beams which would made the best comparison.

[gfreeman]

adamt said:

We used Guys data logger and the sad thing is my girlfriend beat me on her first attempt for 0-60 where she got 4.62 and i got 4.64 adam

Not so real world after all then!! (snigger, snigger)