Make some test laps with the throttle stop last night

[Ron Finney]

Don't get caught up in the "have to have a lot of time in the stop" game. Just because many people do, it isn't necessary if you are set up right. I run as little as 2 tenths to as much as 8 tenths of a second in the stop and have for years in Super Comp. Running the number is not the problem (most of the time). They told me being a slow car to go on the stop at .3 which is what I did for a few years, and it worked great. I now go on the stop at .15 just to get the front wheels out of the air. My altered gets squirrely if it comes up to high. The sooner you go on the stop, the sooner you are off and can run more MPH. That is what most people are after. Stop RPM should be around 4100 to 4200. The rest is just adding/subtracting time to get your number right. I think you will probably find that your ratio will be about 2:1. Meaning two hundreths in the timer will get you 1 hundreth on the track. I actually won the Divisional in Stanton with .05 in the stop. The weather station was predicting negative numbers.....oh yeah, I also got the perfectly strange award in the 4th round of that race.


Good Luck!

Ron