Originally Posted by Scottrik

Testing here showed that with the same gearing a 1s / 13.5 was VERY close to the same as a 4-cell / 17.5. But when we started gearing the 1s / 13.5 up to where it was optimized it was significantly faster than the 4-cell / 17.5 is.

I know the W. Washington guys (Bodine, DuTemple, et al) have decided that 1s / 13.5 and 4-cell 13.5 run together acceptably well. The Fantasy World Summer Sizzler (25th Annual!!) allowed either of these specs and the main proved to be a duel between Mike with a 4-cell car vs. Brian with a 1s car. Bodine made a small mistake early and spent 6 minutes running several seconds behind but the gap was pretty much the same throughout. With 1 minute to go the 4-cell car began to slow noticeably (geared pretty aggressively to keep ahead of the BodineMachine) to near full dump at the end where he won by a second or so. Had the race been even one more lap (heck...one more corner) and Brian would have had him.