check this out, MM&FF to do another L shoot out!!
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Originally Posted by 383svt
Jamie,
is your truck going to be ready by August?
is your truck going to be ready by August?
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Hello all.
First and foremost, who we choose to participate in our shootouts has no bearing on our advertisers. My job is to gather the fastest trucks that meet our rules requirements. They could come from New Jersy, California, Guam or Mars. We don't care. When arranging a shootout for a niche vehicle, you have to take into account that there may be a handful of tuners that build fast ones. For arguement's sake, say we are going to do a Pinto shootout. And In that market you may have four tuners in the entire country and three of them have built some of the fastest Pintos around. Being that this is a niche market, there won't be a lot to choose from so I would have to say that there's a good chance that one of those vehicles may get chosen. It's math and and nothing more.
There are a couple of reasons why we try to keep stock suspensions underneath the vehicles of our various shootouts. Having stock-type suspensions usually ensures that the vehicles are not stripped out race vehicles but actual street-going rides. The majority of our readers can relate to these types of vehicles the most. You're reading into it way to much if you think we are trying to "rule out" one person's truck. We really want street vehicles unless otherwise specified.
Another reason is safety. Aftermarket suspension designs usually mean fast vehicles. Anything quicker than nine seconds and we are not really equipped to handle those types of speeds at our track rentals.
If it was entirely up to me, all Lightning and Cobra shootouts would require Eatons, stock-type suspensions and transmissions.
As i discussed with Johnny Wiker, we are considering having a "Pro Lightning/truck" shootout in the future as we would like to get these guys some coverage. It will take a bit more planning but we are looking into it.
We are holding a Lightning Shootout, not Gen I vs. Gen II. Please refer to the announcement to confirm this. There's no favoritism one way or another. I've found that there generally is a big disparity with the Gen I trucks. They're either really fast (9s or better) or slower than most of the Gen IIs (11.90s or slower). At least that's what i've come across both on the internet and with regard to the submissions i've received.
There generally is an elapsed time range for every shootout. We like to have tight competition whenever possible, so we try not to invite 10-second vehicles with 12-second vehicles. This depends largely on the amount of qualified applicants that we receive. Slower vehicles may get bumped if we have enough vehicles to constitute a fast, tightly grouped effort. This shootout should see vehicles in the 10.0-11.0 range.
I'm always willing to answer people's questions regarding these things. Unfortunately i don't have the time to monitor every website to see what's going on. There's just too many of them. If you have questions or concerns regarding rules, shootouts or anything else relating to the magazine, feel free to email me at steve.baur@primedia.com. And you're more than welcome to post my replies to pass the word around.
Thanks,
Steve Baur
Staff Editor
MM&FF
First and foremost, who we choose to participate in our shootouts has no bearing on our advertisers. My job is to gather the fastest trucks that meet our rules requirements. They could come from New Jersy, California, Guam or Mars. We don't care. When arranging a shootout for a niche vehicle, you have to take into account that there may be a handful of tuners that build fast ones. For arguement's sake, say we are going to do a Pinto shootout. And In that market you may have four tuners in the entire country and three of them have built some of the fastest Pintos around. Being that this is a niche market, there won't be a lot to choose from so I would have to say that there's a good chance that one of those vehicles may get chosen. It's math and and nothing more.
There are a couple of reasons why we try to keep stock suspensions underneath the vehicles of our various shootouts. Having stock-type suspensions usually ensures that the vehicles are not stripped out race vehicles but actual street-going rides. The majority of our readers can relate to these types of vehicles the most. You're reading into it way to much if you think we are trying to "rule out" one person's truck. We really want street vehicles unless otherwise specified.
Another reason is safety. Aftermarket suspension designs usually mean fast vehicles. Anything quicker than nine seconds and we are not really equipped to handle those types of speeds at our track rentals.
If it was entirely up to me, all Lightning and Cobra shootouts would require Eatons, stock-type suspensions and transmissions.
As i discussed with Johnny Wiker, we are considering having a "Pro Lightning/truck" shootout in the future as we would like to get these guys some coverage. It will take a bit more planning but we are looking into it.
We are holding a Lightning Shootout, not Gen I vs. Gen II. Please refer to the announcement to confirm this. There's no favoritism one way or another. I've found that there generally is a big disparity with the Gen I trucks. They're either really fast (9s or better) or slower than most of the Gen IIs (11.90s or slower). At least that's what i've come across both on the internet and with regard to the submissions i've received.
There generally is an elapsed time range for every shootout. We like to have tight competition whenever possible, so we try not to invite 10-second vehicles with 12-second vehicles. This depends largely on the amount of qualified applicants that we receive. Slower vehicles may get bumped if we have enough vehicles to constitute a fast, tightly grouped effort. This shootout should see vehicles in the 10.0-11.0 range.
I'm always willing to answer people's questions regarding these things. Unfortunately i don't have the time to monitor every website to see what's going on. There's just too many of them. If you have questions or concerns regarding rules, shootouts or anything else relating to the magazine, feel free to email me at steve.baur@primedia.com. And you're more than welcome to post my replies to pass the word around.
Thanks,
Steve Baur
Staff Editor
MM&FF
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From: lancaster,pa. usa
Steve, I Understand exactly what your talking about.We really do appreciate MM/FF Doing this Shoot-out for us Lightning Owners! And Appreciate you guys Considering a Shoot-out for us Pro-Lightnings! Again Thanx A million and i hope we can put on a good show for the Readers.Keep up the Great Work!...
JL
JL
