Thanks for the report John and I'm just happy that you managed to get a couple of passes in before the end of the season.
To be within 0.02 sec and 0.5mph of your previous BEST times on the NOS plate, when only using the Spider for the FIRST time and with such little time to achieve optimum results, is in itself quite a respectable achievement both for you and the Spider itself.
The fact that PB's are usually run on preped tracks earlier in the year, is also an indication that these results are an indication of better things to come.
It has been suggested that the Spider could cause disruption to the air flow but if that's the case, your results would lead me to conclude its not by very much (even though I doubt that its the case at all) and that the other advantages it has to offer, that you have yet to benefit from fully, would more than outweigh that anyway.
It's a shame that we now have to wait so long for a back to back apples to apples test but I'm sure the results of your flow tests will prove to be interesting and we'll just have to make use of the down time to make sure you achieve optimum results early in the new season.
To everyone else reading Johns post, I'd like to point out that he is a very honest and principled man, who is doing a very fair an unbiased assessment of what the Spider can do, both due to his own principles and equal encouragement from me to do the same, as I'm sure John will confirm.
The results (as above) will be TRUE & HONEST unlike most other reports you'll find elsewhere on the net.
One final point on the Spider, in discussions with Monte Smith he informed me that the highest flow rate he's seen through the best plate he's tested, has been in the region of 1,500 lbs/hr.
The Spider flowed 2,200 lbs/hr in our tests, so even if John's results ONLY prove the Spider can EQUAL such a plate at low flow levels, the Spider will ultimately out perform the best plate that Monte has tested by approx. 50%.