Alberto

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Thanks guys. I was really happy like I said to go 11's that day considering the heat/humidity-the many Z owners in attendance were all running .3-.5 off their best times at 2-4mph slower traps I was the only one running same E.T.'s at faster traps. And those back to back 11.9's or any of these are not edited those were the order of my runs throughout the day(although my 1st run wasnt taped it was a 12.01)-I have 2-3 more 12.02-12.08 runs I didnt get on tape as well.


Crazy thing is after some fine tuning over my last 11.98 I can now run 11's with a WEAK mid 1.8 60ft, it took me mid 1.7's before. I was launching very conservatively(5500rpms) because that day 2 guys broke axles/cv joints back to back right before I ran, one of those cars was a DSS level 5 axle. Its all in how you launch seeing as how Im on stock axles still Anyways wait till I put my Level 2 axles in and launch this car like I should. Time for new slicks also they are starting to feel greasy and have tons of runs on them from the previous owner and myself as well. Im happy with 11.9 but I know the car has more in it just a matter of hitting that launch....

edit-just wanted to add Ive never ragged my car so bad at a 1/4 track usually test and tune you run a few times over the course of 5-6 hours we had the track all to ourselves and I ran the car many times back to back and the car didnt get heat soaked and ran very consistent I am very pleased with that.

taurran

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Yeah, thats one thing that worries me about such sticky tires. I forget, are you on ET Streets or slicks?

Alberto

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E.T. Streets its listed in the vid Im looking into new slicks havent made up my mind on what tire Ill be going with next.

Edit-to those that want to save the video Ill hopefully have it on a nice server later today I really dislike streetfire but hey its free.

These were all my runs that day not all were in the vid:

11.992 @ 115
11.997 @ 115.9
12.026 @ 116
12.027 @ 116
12.037 @ 116
12.105 @ 115
12.108 @ 115
12.251 @ 114.9

barthelb

You are a very consistent good driver. I wish we could get about 6 or 7 runs in a day. Damn, Im heading to the strip this wed hopefully and will try and get the 11's finally. Or im not going home!

Alberto

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Thanks man-BamBam set up an awesome track only like 20 Z's and a handful of friends in other cars from 9-5, although we didnt run until 11:30 because it was raining when we got there. We could run 100X if we wanted to but I ran throughout the day. Good luck in your quest for 11's...

bigbri

Good **** man....you'll be mid 11's if you nail a 1.6 60ft....That suby was fast as hell...11 flat at 130mph... LOL you still took him of the line...he needs to learn how to drive..

Alberto

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I cut a better 60ft than him(and I was lanching like a$$), his shifts were decent. He ended up running 10.8@133mph with 565awhp It was awesome to hold him off and watch him fly by, when I hit 4th he went from 1/2 car back to like 3-4 cars up on me as we crossed the finish.

gnxs

Alberto,

Nice runs, good to see the mph coming up. Now if your RTs were as consistent as your car/driving, you could bracket race that thing.

Alberto

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I know my RT's could improve but we had a tree different from what Im used to .500 = perfect this was a .0001 or higher was legit green anything negative was a red light. Anything under .100 = good from what they told us and the higher you had the worse it was. Different from the .400/.500 trees Ive seen.

gnxs

The tree should have reacted the same, it's just the way they display the RT that's different (e.g. a .067 on one equals a .567 on the other). Same sportsman tree (and light sequence), just a different way of displaying it.

BTW, I wasn't trying to nitpick. Again, good runs and nice consistency.

Alberto

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You learn something new everyday. First time Ive seen the RT's displayed like that. Thanks, btw I didnt take that as nitpicking at all My best light that day was a .513 iirc then, another Z owner cut a .501

gnxs

.513 will get it done.

down_shift

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What did you do to your raptor to make it sound like that? Mine does not does like that.. It's just a tight chirp right now..

eagletanggreen

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Alright Alberto... Check out my time slip from this Sunday. My first time out on the strip, I was running my 19x10.5 volks 275's toyo t-1r. First this drag stuff was a bit more complex than just punching the gas and shifting gears. I did a total of 6 runs with my best trap at 116mph at 12.8. I just could not hook up in first gear, second would not hook up also. Whats the trick? You said your launching at 5,500rpm.... Ha I was luanching at 3grand and my tires would just spin, and spin, I had to play the catch up game all day. I know a bit of it is the tires, but kick down on the pointers. I know this car will defenitly punch into the 11' with tires and some more practice. What do you guys think. Oh yeah I was running 28lbs in the tires. Be easy on me it was my first time

taurran

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There's a HUGE difference between running street radials and slicks, and a very different method of running good times. I don't think there's really any huge secret that anyone can let you in on to magically lower your ET's, but there are general tips to get your time down. The rest is days and days of practice. I know Alberto will probably say the same thing, but here's my explanation of everything you need to remember and do each time you run.

- Try to get in behind a lot of track prepped and slicked cars, they lay down rubber and make the track sticky.
- Try to run with less than 1/8th of a tank of gas.
- Lower tire pressure to 20-25psi on street tires.
- Drive around the water box (NOT THROUGH, unless you have DR's or slicks)
- Stop behind the line... rev up in first and drop the clutch to spin the tires 1-2 times to dust them off (do NOT burnout).
- Roll up to the line, stage.
- Launch as soon as you see the 2nd yellow light (depending on the tree at the strip)
- Launch between 2500-3000 on street radials. Use the clutch to feather or "slip" extensively to get the car rolling with minimal hop and/or spin. Its not the greatest for the clutch, but it works.
- Generally, try to shift as close to redline in possible every gear. Keep your foot to the floor on the gas and powershift by depressing the clutch, throwing it into gear, and then letting back off the clutch. You must be fast enough to avoid hitting the rev limiter between shifts or grinding your synchros, or else you will kill your time.
- Stay WoT for at least a few seconds after you pass the 1/4mi marker.


I'll let anyone else chime in if I forgot anything, but just remembering every one of these steps will get you good times with some practice. The first time I took the Z out I was running low 12's just by running through a checklist of these items as I staged and ran. The hard part is working on being consistent. Good luck.

Peking

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You do all of us proud, not just Turbonetics owners but Z owners in general

And after you get those upgrades in axles and slicks...

You should make the trip down to Import Showdown, there are some pretty powerful cars here and your times could meet or beat them considering the huge difference in power and win yourself some money... Well if you win your class.

Batlground (Dan W. (evo) -------- 10.55 @ 125mph
Batlground Evo (dan) --------- 11.2 @ 129mph
Batlground Evo (tracy) --------- 12.5 @ 124mph

That was a from a supposed 700 WHP (though they say it was not making nearly that last time out at Import Showdown).



And below was a rumored 1000 WHP Supra that was having trouble hooking up and doing consistant 11's maybe he dipped into the 10's but I was told that.





Also here are the vids taken from that event showing the runs...

http://picsvids.importshowdown.com/


Here are the results from last year...

http://www.importshowdown.com/module...ws&new_topic=1

taurran

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Ouch, that's pretty bad with AWD and that kind of power.

Peking

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Yeah, not sure when they did that run... But supposedly the car was no where near the 700WHP mark when they did the 10.5 run.

Now granted it was super butt *** hot and humid so maybe better times could be had.

MIAPLAYA

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+1 on what Taurran said. And some of those things don't work the same for others. For myself I tend to stage pretty far back. Basically I barely hit the beam for staged and as the tree drops I start rolling quite a bit. 7 out of 10 times I get by alright but sometimes I redlight. Thats just the way I do it. You just need to practice in your car and see what the best fit for you is...

bigbri

The reason I said that is because an awd car should always launch harder and faster than a rwd car...You don't agree??