"Corrected" ET? Come on guys!

[TonyKarter]

QUOTE]I guess I haven't seen people using corrected ET and claiming their car did that time. [/QUOTE]

I'm not saying that anyone posted up corrected time and said their car ran that. What I am saying is that over the last couple of years I have noticed an increase in the tenor of some posts to imply, given these "corrected conditions" my car could run this time, if I only had those conditions. My question is...has your car ever run anywhere close to that time under any conditions? I pull up to a guy at the light, look over, we nod, and when the light turns green...we run'em corrected. I may as well be in the Tron scape, cause nothing is reality anymore.

Only get great air a few times a year.

Agreed. That is when I try to go to the track and cut real good times.

Also, every dyno number is corrected as well.

Agreed. Some people are interested in making HP for a few seconds. I'm interested in what kind of HP did my car make today. I'm interested in what was my lowest ET today. I deal in the immediate, not the esoteric. Still, I understand that corrected allows you to correlate pulls or runs in dissimilar weather conditions for the purpose of comparison. That's fine. What I am zeroing in on is the finalizing statement on the data string some people post. When you end it with "and that corrects to a 12.32" you are not comparing it to your database of other corrected times. You are doing just what I am talking about!

the corrected ET for my 09' is 0.01 at 756,000 mi a second. based on 4080 year times! And... DA paid no damn effect!

LMFAO!

[gr8lover]

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[TCorzett]

If I used a corrected ET my best time would get worse (negative DA for the win)

I think it's cool for comparison purpose (running in Las Vegas and Sacramento with the same car/mods gave me nearly identical corrected ET... despite a dramatic time slip difference), but unless your number is on a time slip... I don't believe it.

-Todd...

[youngrushhour]

If I used a corrected ET my best time would get worse (negative DA for the win)

I think it's cool for comparison purpose (running in Las Vegas and Sacramento with the same car/mods gave me nearly identical corrected ET... despite a dramatic time slip difference), but unless your number is on a time slip... I don't believe it.

-Todd...

Not really useful at all. The only time corrected times are useful is using them at the same track on different runs, days, etc. Once you start comparing corrected times for certain tracks, you lose the corrected-ness.

For example.

Atco in NJ is one of the fastest tracks around. They do not prep the top end of the track much at all. Compare it to E-Town, where they prep the track all the way up to the end, almost. E-Town on the same day and the same weather will be slower than Atco. Always going to be that way.

Corrected ETs are nice, but only useful when you run at the same track over the season and want to see how your car is doing on different days. And, shit, even then it's not perfect because different tracks prep different days. I've driven on an unprepped (or relatively) E-Town track where I fucking destroyed. THen the next time, it's well prepped and you wonder what the hell happened.

[TCorzett]

Not really useful at all. The only time corrected times are useful is using them at the same track on different runs, days, etc. Once you start comparing corrected times for certain tracks, you lose the corrected-ness.

Aww man, why you have to rain on my parade... I was just trying to make my 14 second ET's at Vegas seem less pathetic

Corrected ETs are nice, but only useful when you run at the same track over the season and want to see how your car is doing on different days. And, shit, even then it's not perfect because different tracks prep different days. I've driven on an unprepped (or relatively) E-Town track where I fucking destroyed. THen the next time, it's well prepped and you wonder what the hell happened.

Yeah, track plays into things. We have two tracks near by (Sears Point and Sac Raceway) and the track prep/head wind can have a big effect on ET's from one to the other (and day-to-day). I agree that there isn't much to be gained by referencing corrected ET's. I prefer to just look at the crappy DA use it as my excuse for running so poorly.

-Todd...

[shane]

I could care less about "corrected times". The car ran what it ran that's how i look at it.