nope, but i learned a whole new respect for cars that handle. seeing a stock rx8 smoke a C5 was pretty crazy.

i had some nice tires and was pulling a C6 a few car lengths every lap, was pretty fun too!!!

 

Ok, well I officially suck at drag racing a high HP car. I decided to run 12 psi instead of 14 psi. Here is my best run...
R/T - 0.482
60' - 2.312
330' - 6.010
1/8 Mile - 8.900
1/8 MPH - 84.99
1000' - 11.347
1/4 Mile - 13.404
1/4 MPH - 110.16

Best of the night...
RT - .017
60' - 2.312
330' - 6.010
1/8 Mile - 8.900
1/8 MPH - 86.77
1000' - 11.347
1/4 Mile - 13.404
1/4 MPH - 111.41

Its funny because my previous best 60' and 1/8 Mile times were faster when I ran N/A. The weather was hot and they didn't use VHT on the track like they were supposed too. I also noticed that I picked up another shift since I was N/A. When N/A I was at the very top of 4th across the 1/4, now I am well into 5th. I don't power shift either because I don't want to risk breakig something or blowing a motor with a miss shift. I have never drag raced a car that went faster than 14.1 so I really have NO experience with high HP cars on the 1/4 mile and now I know that it is quite apparent lol. It was still fun though and my car didn't break so I am happy. I will go out once more in winter time probably to see what I can run in the cold.

 

I’m glad to see that you are out there giving it your best. Its easy to see that the major problem is 60 foot times. Practice and get it down to 2.0 seconds. The car is capable of better than 13.0 seconds.

 

hmmm...

 

bottom line here, you need a better tire setup. those times are not very good. thats A LOT of spinning. 8.9 1/8th, maybe you should try 6 psi..


good luck next time...

i figured you would trap higher too. even with all that spinning...

 

Great reaction time on your best run.

 

Im not trying to put you down I understand your not big into dragging, but your trap speed seems really low, like audible said even with spinning first few gears. Also just wanted to note, unless you have a 3.9FD, you should of been crossing through the traps at nearly redline in 4th (112mph) you only trapped 110mph, if you were well into 5th you were shifting well before redline....

 

Yes I was shifting before redline. Also remember, I wasn't running 14psi like I originally said I wanted to. I was really more around 12 psi, which is probaly a good 30-40 less whp and torque. Pretty much everybody there was runnig a lot slower than they previously had. For example. Last year for the ***** Challenge Jim, in his turbo Lotus Elise ran a 12.670 @ 109.46. Last night, in the same car, the best he could get was a 13.100. I don't know if it was bad track prep or what but everybody was running really slow. Some of the guys who stayed into the night cut off .4 just because of the lower temps.

 

well when i see quarter mile times, i look at the trap. that to me explains how fast your car is regaurdless of traction (to some extent)

i just think you should be trapping close to 120 with your setup. even if you ran 12.9 i would think it would be close to 120.


take every gear to redline, and definently 4th gear, while in 4th gear every 100 rpms is like 4 mph, a shift right there will put you down in 5th gear 1:1 ratio and you wont pick up a lot after that



keep it up, grab some stickier tires and comeback with a great time/trap....

 

^^ +1 Any other dynos besides that VRT dyno?

 

Truthfully, I probably wont even go back to the drag strip until next year's ***** Challenge so stickier tires and all that aren't in my future.

Alberto - I did do a dyno at a shop here, but it was only at 7.5 psi on pump gas. ~360whp if I remember correctly on a DynoJet.

 

i know you didnt build a drag car, but im a little disappointed. I really didnt expect you to have a great ET, only because your setup wasnt meant for a great ET, but i did expect a better trap. I never wouldve guessed you werent even gonna break into 12's either.

I guess if other cars that previously run, were a lot slower, then i can take that into consideration, but i was still hoping for something a little more. In any case, its still a sexy car, and i understand if you didnt want to break anything either.

 

No need to be dissapointed lol. Given all of the factors working against me, this ET is not in any way reflective of the car's capabilities. I am not upset at all. I know how the car was driven and the conditions that it was driven in and I am confident that with some DR's a good alignment, cooler weather, a good driver, and some VHT on the track, this car would be in the 11s at 14psi. Even at 2200 ft above sea level.

 

Your car should be doing much better next time. your reaction time is right on! Why wait for winter? You should go back to the track and do a monster burnout to heat up the tires more and then launch hard, hold every gear to redline let the turbos do what they do best and spool high. Get the most out of evey gear. Keep it up and good luck.

 

Also what was your tire pressure? If it is hot outside get it down to about 25psi any colder then 70 get it down to 20psi or lower. You just need more traction at launch.

 

^^^ My tire pressure was high, but thats because it was setup purely for road racing and I didn't want to hit up a gas station afterwards to fill them back up lol. I don't really think it would do any good though since my sidewalls are very very very stiff. Burnouts would not do anything either. Those tires take about two laps on a road course to get sticky, so the burnout would have to last for a while to be able to heat them up properly.

 

Two things.

One, they have air at the track and it "might" have helped your situation.

Two, don't underestimate how quickly tires can heat up with a burnout. There's A LOT more friction involved in a ten second burnout than there is in 2 laps at a normal road course. Besides, r-compounds are designed to heat up much more quickly than normal street tires.

A burnout might have helped...or it might not have. The most important factor in ANY type of racing, no matter how great your car is setup is driver experience and skill.

 

Not at our track. At least not for the local events.

I will try next time to see if there is a difference.

I 100% agree.

 

well how about i paypal you the 75 cents to fill your tires up just so you might run some better times....

 

Actually, PayPal has a 3% fee attached to it so I won't go any lower than 77 cents.