I don't comment here much... and I do not know Nick personally other then chats on FB here and there as of late and posts on ClubGP.
I enjoy that he did the majority of the work at his friends garage, and did a HUGE number of things in one large blast and
was able to roll it out and get on it while others take years to get any results or end up like most with a DNF. Most throw in
the towel on the first hiccup.
I did talked to him about his logs/speed compared to my turdbo car. He has the MUCH better Precision converter while I had
a ZZP/GT converter that massively slips badly... anything over 19psi is useless as no more power gets to the ground. I am lighter,
slightly bigger cam, but pretty close in setups in general. I murder the 0-60mph but from 60-130 i take a hit as the converter
starts to slip badly and keeps on going worse. Zooomer and Matt were suprised I ran the times I did with massive slip. Anyways,
his 60-130 appears to be close to 1.5 seconds quicker than I am getting to 130. Heavier car at roughly same boost I was at, and
moves out quicker from 60-130. I do have 130# springs on the ST5 cam which hurts and 150# on now.
If he can nail the 60 foots and not blow the tires off, his car is a nice solid 10 second car if all holds together. It looks pretty stock on the
outside, sounds quiet, is a runner, built mostly by himself... I give two thumbs up on the job.
Win or Loose against a turbo v8, it should be an interesting race either way. Tho I am sure if the v8 guy looses, some one is gonna say it was
because Nick runs with fender liners and that is cheating
Originally Posted by jdredd
