What are people seeing on their G-meter

[Ceej]

Acceleration plots on yesterday’s track outing from Dragy. Car was showing 1.5g max lateral for comparison. Sport suspension, cup 2s

 

[Mal-lotus]

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Acceleration plots on yesterday’s track outing from Dragy. Car was showing 1.5g max lateral for comparison. Sport suspension, cup 2s

This'll definitely be affected by the width/time window of each sample. The wider the window the closer to the sustained max G rating, the narrower, the more peak G will be evident.

In the driver seat peak Gs are felt with maximum fidelity

 

[Ceej]

Yea makes sense. Just threw it in for fun.

 

[Totally Average]

My g meter hasn’t been very high

 

[Mal-lotus]

My g meter hasn’t been very high

Pretty awesome for a straight road!

 

[geoffbland]

You’re all kidding yourselves if you think your cars can achieve an acceleration rate of 1.1G, or 1.5G laterally.

0-60mph at 1.1G is roughly 2.5 seconds.

Edit: I don't think any road car can achieve sustained 1.1G due to lose of traction without 4 wheel drive or sticky tyres?

 

[Mal-lotus]

0-60mph at 1.1G is roughly 2.5 seconds.

Edit: I don't think any road car can achieve sustained 1.1G due to lose of traction without 4 wheel drive or sticky tyres?

I don't think he claimed his car did 1.1g for 2.5s straight. Just that for a split second it did 1.1g.

 

[drummingj]

So having experienced 1.5G on track in my car on turn in … I’d love to experience the 4-5G sustained turning of an F1. Even if it might leave me very sore afterwards

 

[trackday14]

I wish the g-meter remembered/recorded the highest numbers attained for each dimension (unless I’m missing something)…My Porsche Cayman GT4 did that and it was great.

 

[Mal-lotus]

So having experienced 1.5G on track in my car on turn in … I’d love to experience the 4-5G sustained turning of an F1. Even if it might leave me very sore afterwards

Give a racing kart a try! They're

I wish the g-meter remembered/recorded the highest numbers attained for each dimension (unless I’m missing something)…My Porsche Cayman GT4 did that and it was great.

thats exactly what it shows. The numbers are all the maximums.

 

[trackday14]

Give a racing kart a try! They're

thats exactly what it shows. The numbers are all the maximums.

In my car, it resets every time I turn the car off…so I have no saved maximum g-forces. It only shows me my maximum g’s from when I start the car until I turn it off. My previous Porsche permanently kept the maximum values unless I forced a reset.

 

[Mal-lotus]

In my car, it resets every time I turn the car off…so I have no saved maximum g-forces. It only shows me my maximum g’s from when I start the car until I turn it off. My previous Porsche permanently kept the maximum values unless I forced a reset.

Ah! Understood. It is the maximum for the drive. Which makes more sense to me since conditions will impact that. But they could have a reset button and make everyone happy.