Hi all, in issue 9 of MC Squared, I built a racing simulator so that one could model the different power curves to see what they really did in terms of quarter mile times and the like. It was pretty primative, but worked surprisingly well.

Now, since I'm a bit long winded, not all the article could fit in the magazine, and the excel sheet surely couldn't! So there's an extension to the article on the MC2 website here (fourth one down) and if you want the excel file, just e-mail me at mattr@ix.netcom.com and I'll send it to you....

Some of the stuff that's in there...

Shift point graphs...

Top speed calculations.....

Relative Acceleration Curves.....

Effect of the gearing change in 05 MCS.....

Matt