Just Came Back From Track
11-20-2003, 01:39 AM
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Exactly what I expected
Couldn't launch...never seen so much wheel hop in my life
no traction until about 55mph
wheel hop everywhere rediculous
best was a 12.1@120 something with a 2.0something 60 foot
heres time slips I have videos coming too but I dont think the morons got any of the 12 second runs just of the fucked up ones
http://plaza.ufl.edu/yanni25/new7/timeslips
http://plaza.ufl.edu/yanni25/new7/timeslips2
http://plaza.ufl.edu/yanni25/new7/timeslips3
O im #92 sorry its sideways my smart roomate did that
guess save it and rotate it should be simple enough
Yanni
Couldn't launch...never seen so much wheel hop in my life
no traction until about 55mph
wheel hop everywhere rediculous
best was a 12.1@120 something with a 2.0something 60 foot
heres time slips I have videos coming too but I dont think the morons got any of the 12 second runs just of the fucked up ones
http://plaza.ufl.edu/yanni25/new7/timeslips
http://plaza.ufl.edu/yanni25/new7/timeslips2
http://plaza.ufl.edu/yanni25/new7/timeslips3
O im #92 sorry its sideways my smart roomate did that
guess save it and rotate it should be simple enough
Yanni
11-20-2003, 10:01 AM
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Mods...its mostly stock 
Wheels are stock wheels with Nitto 555 Drs on rear
but like I said no matter what I did I was getting incredible wheel hop in 1st and 2nd gear I launched at like 70% maybe and sill had to let off several times
keep in mind that I had to let off past the 60 foot mark so the car is actually faster IMO
Wheels are stock wheels with Nitto 555 Drs on rear
but like I said no matter what I did I was getting incredible wheel hop in 1st and 2nd gear I launched at like 70% maybe and sill had to let off several times
keep in mind that I had to let off past the 60 foot mark so the car is actually faster IMO
11-20-2003, 11:24 AM
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yeah we need to know the tire pressure you are running, In Japan Dragon and the other FD boys were working with tire pressures a lot on the FD's I know they ran 12 psi a couple of times to try to get the wheel spin down, but you have to remember we do not get a prepped track, we get asphault as smooth as ice, when the track in japan is not being used for the drags (5-6 times a year) it is being used daily for autcross and drifting events.
11-20-2003, 11:50 AM
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well the first few runs I hadent checked the pressure and when I did it as 25 on one side and 15 on the other...I had gone VERY fast on the highway with this setup im glad to be alive (stupid me)
so then I lowered both to 15 for a couple runs and was getting killer wheel hop
then I raised both to 23psi and continued
the story of my life last night was wheel hop
Like I said my last 3d gen was NOTHING like this at all...but it had less power and was much looser in the suspension because it was autocrossed and had ~80k miles
I launched like a wimp on purpose and even when I did that Id get hop in 1st gear and let off shift into 2nd and get more of the same its unbelievable at 50mph the car was going sideways getting hop
I dont want to damage this car...like one of my friends said after he saw my car and then I told him I was going to the track "You're going to drag race that car? what a shame"
Snook
so then I lowered both to 15 for a couple runs and was getting killer wheel hop
then I raised both to 23psi and continued
the story of my life last night was wheel hop
Like I said my last 3d gen was NOTHING like this at all...but it had less power and was much looser in the suspension because it was autocrossed and had ~80k miles
I launched like a wimp on purpose and even when I did that Id get hop in 1st gear and let off shift into 2nd and get more of the same its unbelievable at 50mph the car was going sideways getting hop
I dont want to damage this car...like one of my friends said after he saw my car and then I told him I was going to the track "You're going to drag race that car? what a shame"
Snook