The
VHP/Penske adjustable shock as installed in our C5 test car. Production version
won’t have adjustable pressure settings but will have bump and rebound
settings that can be selected by the driver.
around on them and the progress looks good," explained Vinci. "We’ve
tried some different pressures along with a couple of different settings on
the bump and rebound. Over-all it’s been a comfortable street setup and
we’ve improved our ET and top-speed at the 1/8 and 1/4 mile marks."
The production shocks won’t have the adjustable
pressure settings that the prototypes do. Vinci plans to determine the best
trade-off for the street and strip applications and Penske will build them to
that specification. They will however, have easily adjustable bump and rebound
settings that can be set by removing the rear tires, making the adjustments
and bolting the tires back on.
Eighth-mile testing of the shocks started with times
of 7.826 sec. at 93.97 mph. After massaging
