You guys drive me batty sometimes. You were on the committee when we implemented the idea of the confidence factor to vary from the standard. The idea was that each member was to express how confident they were that the alternate horsepower was really what could be expected in IT trim.
Based on the evidence, when we did the MR2, there wasn't a high enough confidence to get lower than 115 (or something, I can't remember the specifics anymore) whp. That is to say, the committee didn't reach "confident" that this is the IT whp potential until we got that high.
This is the process that you loved. It's the one that I managed to get written down and added to the CRB ops manual as an appendix. It's based on the committee member's gut feelings based on evidence presented. Sorry if the confidence just wasn't that high. I'll tell you that I personally didn't have enough confidence in these numbers as low as 110. I felt like only one person has tried under these rules, and with plenty of other cars, we know that the first one that tried wasn't the one that "figured it out."
And like it or not, the "norm" is 30% right now. Without compelling evidence, it would still be up over 2500 lbs.
Can you please go barking up another tree? Maybe a fresh one so we can stop hashing over the same things?
Josh Sirota
ITR '99 BMW Z3 Coupe
Bookmarks