I went to "high school drags" today, and SUCKED. Was it me, the atmospheric pressure (I'm at 1 mile high), or is my car not running all the way up to par?



These are my 3 runs:



R/T .574 .634 .568

60' 2.611 2.461 2.586

1/8 11.552 11.289 11.421

MPH 61.77 61.09 60.04

1/4 17.934 17.700 17.780

MPH 78.05 77.38 78.17



1st run I dropped the clutch at 4k. 2nd run I slipped the clutch at 6k. 3rd run I slipped the clutch at 6k, then chirped the tires into 2nd. Oh yeah, the third run was a bracket race, if that makes any difference.

 

it may have been a combination of those things, however the largest factor may be you unfortunately. Your 60ft times are just not very good. Practice practice. what tires are you running?

 

ouchies, 11 second 0-60

 

yea practice teh launch 5-6 and slipping the clutch is pretty much what u have to do, i assume its a NA, and u shoudl get high 15s or low 16s on a stock car, but i think your 6 ports are stuck closed your mph is low.

 

wow, that is bad, no offense... the mph seems extremely low though even for your altitude. Keep working on those 60 foot times with different launch rpm and clutch feel. Did you have any wheel hop??

 

If I let the clutch in too quickly I'd get wheel hop rather than sliding.

After the 2nd run I checked the actuators and VDI, they both work fine. The compression on the engine is good for this altitude. Is there possibly something wrong with the engine? It has never failed to start (knock on wood), and pulls pretty strongly. I've actually raced my friend's s4 turbo boosting about 8-9 psi, and up to 90 mph he only pulled about 3 or so carlenths on me. He ran a 15.8 yesterday.

So am I really just that bad? I had a friend up there with a stock 96 auto cherokee running 17.5's, I also had worse times than a lot of complete POS trucks and crappy slow cars.

 

Last time I raced at the track I got 18.5 against a civic that ran a 16.8.. and I still won..I had a .7 reaction time..

 

i've run 15.98 with my old gtu

 

Yea...you need to bring your 60s down.



My buddy ran a 10.6 in his '91 Coupe(1/8th mile)...all we did was gut his cats...



before he could only run an 11.4..pretty close to ur 1/8th mile times. He had bad wheel hop and clogged cats. I told him to let air out of the tires and gut the cats...presto 10.6...which would have been a low 16...MAYBE even a high 15....in a mostly stock car...oh, and a k&n cone filter.

 

Rotaryman88, where are you located? The altitude does make a big difference.