4wheelkillr

So this is my little bitching post...
and I'm probably not the only one and here's what I mean.

I've made over 20 passes w/ my car at the drag strip- so I think I've got a pretty good base.

I've got about $1700 in mods on my car (see my sig for details) and I fail to see where it has helped very much.

My very first time ever at the drag strip I was able to turn out a 14.651 or so and a 2.181 60' with nothing but Shorty Headers and Flowmasters. Now we all know that exhaust does very little on this car mainly because the exhaust is fairly open being 2.5" anyway. So I don't have a true realworld baseline to go off...but I can't possibly imagine my exhaust giving me any more than a 10th or so.

Last night I was at it again making this my 3rd trip to the Strip. 11 total passes last night. The first run of the night was also my best run of the night and now my new best run ever. The only thing I added from last week was the U/D Pulleys. My times: 60' 2.113 and 1/4 14.416.

I've spent $1700 in mods, dyno tune the works.
I've gained about 15hp TOTAL, and dropped .235 in the 1/4...that's it!

That's just annoying as all hell.

Now I will say that some other 05 GT's up here are just plain crap. But I think it's the drivers too. Stock 06 GT manual last night couldn't get better than 15.4 (again my semi-stock baseline is at 14.65). Another 06 GT with a KB blower couldn't get lower than 14.2's!!

Is anyone else feeling me on this crap?

Frustrated,

Chris

hogpowr

My buttdyno says my mods rock.

jdback19

Damn with those mods you should be getting into the 13ish area ya know? Somethings up i would get it retuned if i were you.

GhostPony

Something is not right with the amount of cash you spent and what you are seeing at the track.
I ran my car (o6 GT vert with automatic) dead stock and turned times froma lowest of 14.22 to a slowest 14.35 and that was with a passenger and a full tank of gas on street tires. Stock!
I now have a KB blower and if my car does not get under 12 seconds when I hit the track soon, I am gonna buy a z06.
Anyone running a KB kit and getting over 14 seconds maybe has other issues. The MM & FF test ran a Procharger and Vortech, against eacother. KB turned 11.25 with 10 PSI pulley and ET streets on back. No other mods. So how can someone else get a 14 second result with the same kit?

Steve_05GT

14.6? damn mine stock did 13.9 and with a CAI and 93 oct. tune it's best run was 13.7 with major wheel hop and 92* temps. Is yours an auto? How are you launching? Shifting? Have you ever been to the track before? Are you just smoking the tires on take off?

mustangman02232

get some 4.10/4.30s

lmmmmm

maybe the next mod should be the driver.

lmmmmm

maybe the next mod should be the driver.

AmericanMuscle4.6GT

yea. no offense man, but you really should be seeing better times then that. it is possible something's up with your tune, but i think u need to practice a bit. your 60' time is decent, pretty damn good actually. but something is definetly going very wrong. someone on here ran a 12.9 witth cai and tune, o/r h, and sticky tires. just practice, man, u'll get there.

Fly

Keep in mind he's in Denver. Most N/A cars would be posting stock times close to his.