2008-07-15 14:10:59 (18 weeks 1 day 15 hours 2 minutes 18 seconds) #1808158 | | view posts since this #1
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I never understood trap speed
how do some cars run like 11s at 110mph for example while some cars run the same time at like 160mph. its just an example, i dont understand how that works.
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2008-07-15 14:11:54 (18 weeks 1 day 15 hours 1 minute 23 seconds) #1808162 | | view posts since this #2
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Re: I never understood trap speed
Slicks make you run slower trap speeds, so you'll see people with slicks running faster times with slower trap speeds than say someone just on drag radials.
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2008-07-15 14:14:46 (18 weeks 1 day 14 hours 58 minutes 31 seconds) #1808168 | | view posts since this #3
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Re: I never understood trap speed
so whats better to have higher MPH or lower MPH?
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2008-07-15 14:28:04 (18 weeks 1 day 14 hours 45 minutes 13 seconds) #1808190 | | view posts since this #4
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Re: I never understood trap speed
Its in the gearbox too, depending on the gear ratios, your traps could be high or low.
Also, if a car has a low trap and low time, that means that either it took off quick and once it got up in the gears, the power isnt that great, like in N/A V8s
If a car has a time that is low and trap is high, that normally means the car had nitrous and squeezed at the 1/8th mark like Ive seen some do. Or, it just got a shitty launch and too much wheelspin. Or the car could have let out on it before crossing the finish line.
Im sure I left some things out but thats all that could come to mind right now.
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2008-07-15 15:39:18 (18 weeks 1 day 13 hours 33 minutes 59 seconds) #1808271 | | view posts since this #5
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Re: I never understood trap speed
alexphoenix wrote:
so whats better to have higher MPH or lower MPH?
depends, Big, tub'd out cars with huge slicks will go 9.90 at 131mph. while my old honda would go 11.80 at 145mph.
Cars that make alot of power, will generlly, trap alot higher than a car with less power that hooks well.
Take, titan, and boost logic supras for that matter.
at the texas 2k8 meet, the boost logic supra, and Titan motorsports supra where in the unlimted class final.
Boost logic beat titan, Making less power, so they had a better E.T. while titan had a MUCH higher trap speed, but a slower ET, so they lost.
I would MUCH MUCH MUCH MUCH rather have a car go 14.0 at 150, then a car that goes 11.00 at 120mph.
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2008-07-15 16:40:55 (18 weeks 1 day 12 hours 32 minutes 22 seconds) #1808373 | | view posts since this #6
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Re: I never understood trap speed
Yes take my IRL for example, i trapped 110-111 on slicks, from a roll w/ street tires i run with cars that trap 113-114.......I would much rather take a car that hooks up and runs a second faster with a lower trap then a car that traps high and runs a slower time, i hate roll racing even though i do it, but that is not true drag racing.
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2008-07-15 16:43:18 (18 weeks 1 day 12 hours 29 minutes 59 seconds) #1808381 | | view posts since this #7
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Re: I never understood trap speed
kc03spec-v wrote:
alexphoenix wrote:
so whats better to have higher MPH or lower MPH?
depends, Big, tub'd out cars with huge slicks will go 9.90 at 131mph. while my old honda would go 11.80 at 145mph.
Cars that make alot of power, will generlly, trap alot higher than a car with less power that hooks well.
Take, titan, and boost logic supras for that matter.
at the texas 2k8 meet, the boost logic supra, and Titan motorsports supra where in the unlimted class final.
Boost logic beat titan, Making less power, so they had a better E.T. while titan had a MUCH higher trap speed, but a slower ET, so they lost.
I would MUCH MUCH MUCH MUCH rather have a car go 14.0 at 150, then a car that goes 11.00 at 120mph.
Hey do you know Bryan with the Cammed SS/SC??? I think he said he knew a guy with a boosted spec-v when we had are Midwest KC meet last summer, also he is always at house of boost i believe, arent they the shop who built the infamous"Turtle"
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