alright so as long as im on par for where i am lol. the only thing good about that sheet is the 2.3 60' and i dont know how i got that cuz i hopped thru 1st and most of 2nd...

first times are always rough   my first was in my se-r and i ran a mighty 16.5   i was the second slowest car at the track that day... my first time in my spec i blew up the stock clutch... so at least you weren't running 16s or breaking stuff! 

plus, ugh... summer weather sucks! just blame it on that...everyone has been running crappy lately

heh, glad you find comfort in my misery!   

veeeeee wrote:

snowghost440 wrote:

cute02spec wrote:

first times are always rough   my first was in my se-r and i ran a mighty 16.5   i was the second slowest car at the track that day... my first time in my spec i blew up the stock clutch... so at least you weren't running 16s or breaking stuff! 

plus, ugh... summer weather sucks! just blame it on that...everyone has been running crappy lately

haha that acutally made me feel better about it

veeeeee wrote:

they are pretty close to my times that i ran earlier tonight for my first time but we have different mods. my best 60 was 2.406

what are your mods. i have i/h/e no cats, i ported my intake mani a little and polished what i did, throttle body bypass

I/H mmi 4 dollar whop aid lowered on stech if that makes any difference throttle body bypass lol thats about it on power mods or anything taht might help with a 1/4

nice, i need those mmi's and wheel hop aid bad. i felt a major difference in gears 1-3 with the IM port so i was hoping it would show on the track. but i only got one run in, cuz of rain. and i wasnt quite ready at the launch.

My first time I pulled a 15.1

my 60s were 2.3, the same as they are now with the same tires.

Hi  snowghost440
     The wheel hop aids mentioned really do work and in the hopes of making you feel a little better
May I offer the story of my Friday Night?


Here we are back at Atlanta Dragway
Its hot 93 and very humid

The track is very slippery and they are cleaning it with mops and water

Last week I was running on automatic just rev and go
No real effort to hook it up
Just experiment with the wheel hop aids
I have discovered they work quite well even with 4500 rpm launches
The fastest it went 15.69/88

I’m back this week to try and hook it up
My friends who watched last week told me
It looked like I was babying it
So this week we are really trying

Matter of fact, I get called out for a grudge race.
Great, nothing like a little competition to make you try
A turbo supra has challenged me

Now among this sandy beach of Chevy’s and sea of mustangs are three Honda’s one sentra and one Toyota
The Honda’s are all capable of 11’s to low 12’s
So that leaves me as the supra’s target
He spies the roll bar and makes his challenge known to the official
I jump at the chance
It will give me a shot at power hour
They give 50 bucks to the fastest et, mph and rx time that hour
I am obviously going for rx time
My buddy with the nitrous Chevelle has already done .o19 rx time tonight

It’s almost an hour before we run
I have not mentioned my car is stock
[To have the bar you have supposedly gone 11.9]
We talk for a while
He has never been to this track [oh boy]
He left the slicks home [I got a chance]
He has never run in the heat and he is tuning [a/f ratio’s] on his lap top  [ I’m thinking, now he is dead meat]
He shows a time slip in the mid thirteen’s with a rx time of .05 [no newbie, here, maybe I’m dead meat]

Its time to stage and while I go around the water box he goes thru it [I’m thinking I got him]
The lights flicker down
I go on the spot between seeing the 2nd yellow go out and the last yellow comes on [too early] and I red light by .04 sec [quite a lot]
No rx money for me
But I psyched him into flooring it and as I pull up to him I see his rear tires explode in smoke
My shift to second produces unbelievable wheel spin [still no hop] I am fighting it the whole way to third
Now, Just  ahead of the wildly spinning supra
He’s actually beginning to fish tail
I’m ½ a car ahead going into third
It slips badly on the shift but I don’t lose any ground
I figure his turbo will come in now and he will disappear
He begins to pull up, slowly catching me
I got one shot left
A power shift to fourth and let the heavy flywheel give me a little jerk
He pulls along side, I power shift fourth and it jumps a 1/3 of a car on him
But he is puling harder now I can see him along side me as we cross the finish
I got him by inches at the lights as he goes by me too late

On the way back to the timing stand I am excited to see what we turned. I’m thinking this has to be a personal record. I really hooked it
We get our slips and my stomach turns

15.9/86
2.37 60 ft time

Wait, its true
A personal record has been established.
The slowest I have ever gone while really trying.

02RedSpec-V wrote:

15.939 eeeeek, bad times with those mods.

he's a newbie
i'm an old pro and he did better than me

man..first time I got 16.3 ..no mods, then 15.9 with CAI...and that's it, If I try in this humidity, I nomally get like a 16.1-16.5...ouch, so I don't even bother running till fall/winter. I do see how I still get faster times then even Scion Tc's, accords, etc, so it feels good to now you're on par or even better then other in your "class" even though you're pulling sucky times

you'll definitely get better with time...my car just went to the track last saturday and her best time was a15.3 but the track was 125 degrees..there are many factors that affect your time at the track..just keep tryin.