The V car has a lateral G meter in it - not sure how accurate it is.

So today coming off HWY 91 going on the 270 degree turn going right onto Hwy 10 the G meter hit .96.

The highest until now has been a very weak .82 going right and and even lamer .72 going left.

The car felt completely solid. No tire squeal - that I could hear above the Dirty Vegas CD anyway - and three is certainly a little more to go before hitting the limit. VERY fun experience I have to say.

 

Damn man!
That's impressive! Not far off from a full G either.........I wonder if stickier tires would put it over the hump.

Like yourself Shuan - I also wonder about how accurate it is.

Assuming it's not too far off - or mabye none, I give you a

 

Top notch for even in the vicinity of that .96
Very impressive!

 

That will be peak lateral Gs. That is the little accelerometer measures how hard it gets thrown at it hardest. The skidpad testing is sustained lateral G forces where the accelerometer gets held out for a while. I would expect those cars to do mid to high 8s on the skidpad. Grab some pylons, a measuring tape, and a stopwatch and you can do your own skidpad tests.
The G-meter is cool though, I think it would be far too tempting to play with in everyday driving though for me .
Cheers.

 

thats awesome!

my car with the slp suspenions is suppsed to pull .96 also. it prolly pulls more with my sts springs now.

who says our cars cant handle?

 

stupid ricers

 

lets put my G-tech in your car, it does the same thing, lets compare the accuracy, if they are both the same, then it must be accurate

 

the offramp is probably banked as well which will skew readings (allow more G's then possible on a flat surface). I dont know any 270* ramps that arent banked....

Tires will have a much greater affect on lateral G's then suspension changes...

 

Oops, that's actually opposite to what happens. The meter will read less on a banked corner. The springs will compress more, but the side load is reduced, not increased, with banking. The ultimate extreme would be a vehicle turning a corner with 90* banking fast enough to stick to the road with high G readings vertically through the seat and spring, but no side loading...

 

I disagree... We know a banked corner will allow a car to travel faster before losing grip. this results in a higher centripetal acceleration, which is what the g-meter will measure. the roll magnitude of the car as it travels around the turn will probably be greater then the bank of the turn, so the g-meter should not be skewed significantly as you suggest.

 

Also keep in mind that the G meter is no longer level to the ground .. therefore you need to disect the G vector into vertical and horizontal vectors and take the arcTan (or arcSin or arcCos, dont feel like drawing it out now) of the angle of the bank .. grade 11 physics

 

I don't think the Cadillac G-meter cares if the vertical (relative to the car) G load varies at all. The only indication it will give is the resistance to change of its horizontal vector, ie the tire grip/slip with any changes in path from straight ahead. If the banked road surface helps the car turn, the loading in that horizontal vector is less for the same speed, which does allow the car to go faster in the turn but as the higher speed is reached it will still reach the same ultimate horizontal (again, relative to the car) slip limit/G loading. Ah I love this ****...

 

You guys knock yourselves out. I just know it was FUN.

 

Ya, we're just tryin' to keep up!