Went to the track for the first time. I did horrible. (and my crap tires didnt' help either)

I had 5 runs. My 4 slowest times were 14.66, 14.603, 14.31, 14.24. Don't laugh to hard ok?

And here is whats on my time slip for my best time of the night.

Reaction: .998
60 ft: 2.205
660 ft: 9.127

ET: 13.982
MPH: 101.799

Now the horrible reaction time is becasue the tree did something I and never seen before. I pulled up, got my stage lights on, then after a second all the yellow lights went on at the same time, then the green light went on. I was like "what the he-zee" then I took off.

Sorry if I put the car to shame, I'll try to do better next time

 

what altitude was it at?

 

hmm. not sure, I'm in kansas, I think maybe 3300 ft...does that sound right?

 

The weird thing the tree did is called a "pro-tree" Its what most class' run with. Its a bit harder to cut a good light on a pro-tree than it normaly is.

 

from what I've read reaction time won't affect your ET, so that shouldn't matter. What mods do you have?
*edit* just saw your sig, ok what transmission do you have?

 

Thnk your 18" rims affected your Times??

anyone have insite on this??

Most race with their 16" stock rims. right?

Lataz..

 

zoomspeed,

the tree that you were seeing was a PRO tree. a perfect reaction time is .400sec......there is almost no way to red light. when all the yellow lights go at once, that is how you know...

 

I believe the perfect reaction time is actually .500

I remember this because on my first run I had a .531 reaction time, and the people at the track said it was godly.

 

.500 is perfect on a Sportsman tree. .400 is perfect on a Pro tree.

 

the thing is that on all the other runs that I saw, the yellows would light up one by one, then it got to me and they all went on.

 

$5 says you were staged behind a pro drag car. A lot of the time they will set it up for them and not switch it back for the next guy. Its happened to me a bunch.

 

what boost level were you running at? From your list of mods, I didn´t see an intercooler. Also, the best run you did, was it the first run?

 

I was running ~11 PSI with aabout 97 octane gas.

I got faster with every run, so the worst ones came first, and the best one came last.

 

reaction time doesnt affect ****, and work on your launch 2.2 60' is horrible...not bad for a first time i guess

 

fuckign forum...slow

 

Actually 2.2 is pretty good for someone new to the track with crappy tires.

You don't need 97 octane though...

Any idea how much those wheels weigh?

-Matt
'93 Touring <For Sale>
'87 Turbo II

 

Here were my other times for the night in the order that they happened. in case anyone was wondering

Reaction: .207
60 ft: 2.462
ET: 14.651 @ 98.838 MPH

Reaction: .249
60 ft: 2.774
660 ft: 9.803
ET: 14.603 @ 102.999 MPH

Reaction: .249
60 ft: 2.667
660 Ft: 9.623
ET: 14.372 @ 104.253 MPH

Reaction: .759
60 ft: 2.379
660 ft: 9.439
ET: 14.249 @ 98.333 MPH

Then the one I posted earlier was my last run.

I was alittle off when posting the times earlier since it was just from memory.

I think the wheels weight about 21 pounds each, and I had 245/40 kumho ecsta 712s on them.

 

Probably not, but it doesn't hurt.

 

if you double-clutch, you should see your times go down on average of 0.5 seconds. also, if you adjust your injector pulse timing, you should get into the 9s.


j/k.


do a compression check on your motor. with those mods and those numbers, one cant ba THAT bad of a driver. i say you need a new engine....but lets just hope that you are a really, really shitty driver.

EDIT: after reading your recent post, it seems that you need some stickier tires and/or work on your launching skills.

 

Hurts your wallet... thats money that could be spent on sticky tires. If it doesn't ping at 93 octane, which it won't with those mods, you don't need 97 octane.

Unless you specifically told Gforce you would be running race gas and they set the timing maps to reflect that.

-Matt

 

can't get 93 octane here, best I can get at the gas staion is 91. I mixed soem of that 91 with some 110 from the track.

I tihnk according to the owners manual I shouldn't even be using 91 octane.

 

HAHA I thohut you were serious until I saw the "j/k". I was thinking "What the He-Zee is he talking about?"

I really really hope its just me and the tires
I relly had a hard time hooking up, for my runs I played with dumping the clutch in between 3k and 4 k RPM. I would either bog or spin the tires.

These tires suck so bad. On the street, if I'm in 1st on a rolling start and I punch it, I'll be fine until about 5.5 or so RPM then they start loosing traction and I start to go side ways a little

 

edited

 

get new tires!!!!!!! kumhos SUCKS!!!

 

that was the plan.

A guy that works at the local bling bling wheel shop has a raec-only 3 rotor 7 and he recommended the kumho V700 drag radials. He said thats what his runs on his 7 and he dynoed ~620 RWHP. so I had them go ahead and order those for me. they were suppose to be there the same day I went to the track, but there supplier sent the wrong ones, so I ended up just going on my regular street tires (kuhmo ecsta 712s).