TravisJB Journal

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It might be another year or so before I start looking at branching out from my local HPDE stuff and doing NASA TT (and rules might change again!), but I was starting to look ahead at car setup and points and all that so I don't do anything too stupid to the car in the meantime. I know you've spent a lot of time going over the NASA classing stuff for our cars, so...

Basically under the current rules and given that I've already done a lot of changes to this car that rack up misc points (and probably weren't wise from a classing perspective, but meh), it looks to me like even without going FI, TT3 is simpler to deal with and doable, rather than doing the TTB/A base classing mess. Just running down the numbers on the forms, it seems like if I guestimate my car around 3000lbs, then depending on tires (275s for +0.4, or bigger for zero) and non-OEM Aero (-0.5 in TT3), my HP limit in TT3 can be anywhere in the range of about 313 - 344, which is a pretty reasonable target area for our engine NA. So basically I could see what I end up dynoing for at that time, and decide on a tires/aero choice that matches my RWHP as close as possible.

But the numbers on the forms rarely tell the whole story. Would it be insane to run this car NA in TT3, even given that I'd be taking advantage of the freedoms elsewhere to make the most out of this car in that class within the basic prohibitions of TT1/2/3? Would it just be outclassed by the other usual cars in TT3?

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