Friday was my first day back to englishtown after a 3 year break. The car normally runs mid to high 11's. All I could do was 13's , it was mainly my 60ft that was killing me. I averaged around 2.3 for the day, my best ever was 1.581 and usually around 1.7. The car bogged every pass no matter what I launched at. Pass 1 - launched at 4k = 2.8 60 ft pass 2 launched at 5k = 2.3 Pass 3 - launched around 6k and still 2.3 60 ft. The car had no wheel hop or wheel spin any passes. My question is was this all bad driving since I haven't raced in awhile or is something wrong? The only change in the drivetrain is that I used to have an exedy twin plate clutch and light flywheel and now I have an act 6 puck with stock flywheel. In the past if I launched anything higher than 5k I would have broke any axle which I have many times but now no matter what it just wants to bog. Thanks

 

whats up Nof, glad to see your back. You might have to come out harder than 6k. I would try 6500.

 

hey al. it was nice to go back to the track. Do you think that the act needs to be launched higher then the exedy? in the past 6k would destroy parts and now it didn't feel like enough or maybe changing the flywheel made a difference?

 

what tires?

 

the revs do seem a bit low but as you said it was faster before even at those sort of revs with the twin plate, maybe it just needs more revs, load up the drive line and go for it next time, shouldn't be snapping axles with the right amount of slip and pre-load

 

The tires are the same as I have been running mickey thompson et street drag radial. I'm going to install a 2-step and launch around 6.5 or 7k and see what happens. Thanks for the advice

 

Be careful with those tires. I had them and was breaking parts left and right. When they heat up they HOOK and they don't wrinkle. They are great for the street but not the track on an FD in my opinion. Most of us stick to ET Streets wrinkle wall.

Anthony

 

Anthony, do the et streets require tubes? I was looking at them on summit racing website and it said tubes are required. Thanks

 

Some use tubes and some don't. I've used tubes and run without. Some say if you have a slow leaking one to use tubes. The ET streets I have not don't have tubes and don't leak.

Anthony