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Testing, Calibration, and Optimization

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Vintage NASCAR Cars With Modern Horsepower: Aaron Brown's “Garage Shop” Custom Creations!

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What happens here

After initial assembly, vehicles undergo rigorous testing and calibration to optimize performance and safety. For drag cars, this involves using the vehicle as a 'test sled' to gather data on traction control, boost control, and other electronic parameters. This data is then applied to more extreme builds like the 400 mph streamliner. The shop utilizes a specialized pull-down rig from Penske Racing Shocks, allowing for detailed suspension analysis and tuning, simulating track conditions to optimize bump stops and other suspension components for maximum performance and stability.

Goal: Fine-tune vehicle performance, handling, and electronic systems through extensive testing.

Tools and materials

  • Data Logging Equipment — Recording various vehicle parameters (e.g., boost, RPM, wheel speed) during testing
  • Dynamometer — Measuring engine horsepower and torque under controlled conditions
  • Specialized Sensors — Gathering data for traction control, boost control, and parachute deployment

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productive. So, you just built a drag car for a a test sled. Yeah. So, all this everything here was built everything was built in house. Uh we're going to use this car to mainly gather data uh for the traction control, boost controls, all that different stuff. Uh have yaw sensors for parachutes. We're going to use this car as a test bed for electronics for strip. We've got over a 100 pools on it. They made 3700 horsepower up there at Steves with only like 35 lbs of boost. So, they really got some stuff figured out. Um, the Procharger just wasn't going to get it done, you know, for what we were wanting. It just wasn't controllable. And we tested it and tried it and they made good horsepower with it. And we just chose once we saw all the data, we just chose to go a different direction. The reason that we're using the single

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