New Electronics System...Part II

[Seattle_Mike]

Here's Part II

Q: In laymen’s terms, this system is really moving all of the electronics at a much faster speed and a much more precise speed. So when you set something at a certain parameter, you can rest assure that where you placed the setting is where it’s coming on. It’s not late and it’s not early.



A: That’s correct; very much correct. There again when you’re only working with; most of this stuff we do on the east coast is only eighth of a mile. We have been 3.84 in Jim’s car. When you are working with 3 point 84 seconds to go 660 ft, every number on that ET counts, every number. If you can’t repeat every number during the whole 3.84 seconds of the many things that the car does while its going down the track, than you can’t possibly ever expect to win races unless you can repeat.



Q: We are talking about hundredths even thousands of a second here making a fundamental difference in how fast the car goes



A: That’s correct



Q: If we have a car out here running 8 seconds, say more the average racer in the country; How much of a difference does that make to me in that 8 second run?



A: The tools are only as good as the people using them. I hate to say that but it’s the truth. What you have to do and what this tool does becomes something you can depend on. With analog signals, with older systems, digi-sets, and relays, you don’t know. One time it might come on 15 hundredths late or the next time it comes on 17 hundreds late. The clutch switches are the same way. If I set the clutch 20 from the bottom, one time it will come on 15 from the bottom and the next time it will come on 25 from the bottom. So you catch yourself always chasing something and you can’t figure out why it won’t do the same thing twice. Well it probably has nothing to do with the tuner whatsoever and has everything to do with the parts on the car. So what we try to do is make something as accurate as possible therefore the tuner can be assured that when he tells it to be on, it’s on. Therefore we take that old parameter out. As you start using the system, a level of consistency just automatically comes with it



Q: So whether you are a fast guy or a slow guy, this system is going to give you repeatability and tune-ability to get the maximum potential out of your car with what you are running no matter what it is?



A: That’s correct. What it does is there again, I don’t care if you’re running four seconds, six seconds, eight, ten, twelve. It does not matter; you have parts and pieces you spend good money on. It’s all the motor you have, it’s all the car you have, it’s all the transmission your have. If you utilize 100% of everything you have and utilize it in a way to where you know you are headed forward at all times, you will get the most out of what you have. You will find that you have much more than what you think you have. Too many times we use a thing that I call brute force trauma. If my car is not fast enough, I just go to Fulton or Sonnys and I buy a bigger motor. Well that’s not necessarily the case. You know there are so many of these in the Pro Mod world today. There so many of them that have more power than what they can ever utilize anyway. They are just not utilizing it to a finite science. I mean therefore you just think you need more motor and in all actuality there is a whole lot left there, you just have got to find it. You can find it with tune-ability.



Q: So what you are telling me is actually really exciting because I don’t have to dish all that money out of pocket for bigger, better, and greater. I just have to work on fine tuning what I have and this is really what this system is about. It is allowing me to use all of what I have. So I am not forking out 60, 70, 80 thousand dollars for a bigger motor and the latest greatest on the market.



A: That’s Correct. I am not saying that you’re going to turn the average street car into a Pro Mod. There is limiting factors to everything, but if you are smart about what you do, you pay attention, you tune the car right; I will give you the ability to get the most potential out of your car and out of your motor by giving you the consistency level that you don’t normally have



Q: What is it going to cost me to get into one of these systems?



A: Base systems start at $2500.00 and then you add the modules from there depending on what you want and what you need on the car. You can go to our website at www.automatedracingtechnologies.com and go into products and pick the touch screen that you want; pick the modules that you want and think you need. You can also call and we’ll put together a package on it and email or fax it out to you, send it to you.



Q: So I can build this system over time. I don’t have to dish out the max. I can get a base unit and as time goes by and I am working on my budget, I can get more parts. What comes in the base system?



A: The base system is the total function control. It is the actual basic processor and you add modules to it from there. It will control the fans, water pump, fuel pump, the shut downs, ignition system, turn the data recorder on and off, pretty much your basic system. The base system starts by making the car more automated so the driver does not have to concentrate on anything except cutting lights. Press one screen to start it, the system goes through the whole process normally done by the driver, you just start cutting lights.



Q: So the base system is really going to take a lot of those parameters that we see out on the track, things that people mess up, forgot to turn this or that on. It’s going to take that all out of the driver’s hands so they can concentrate on driving



A: That’s correct. Too many times I’ve seen guys get worried about whether their water pump is on or their fans are on. They do their burnout, the car shuts off, they forgot to turn their fuel pump on. By then the motor has gotten lean. You know believe it or not you can hurt the motor right in the burn out when the fuel pump is off. What you do, this thing does it for you. It starts the car, puts it in gear, and does the burnout. If it’s an all naturally aspirated motor, you pretty much head up to the starting line with it. It takes some of the pressure off the driver. The driver is in the car and they get comfortable with the system. You find that the driver becomes better because they are more comfortable and they have less to deal with in the car. Anybody that has ever driven a hard running clutch-nitrous car knows that it’s not the easiest thing in the world to even get to the starting line much less to race it. What I tried to do is build something for myself when I started this whole nitrous Pro Mod thing. I wanted to build something for myself to make me a better driver and a better tuner.



Contact:

Chris Patrick (404) 932- 3093, chris@automatedracingtechnologies.com

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Chris Patrick