97tplsGT

Made it out to the 'local' 8th today for an event, and it turned out to be a pretty good day! I rode up with the Racestar frontrunners on, and the slicks in the trunk ready to go!

Turns out dialing in the air pressure, launch rpm, clutch technique, etc, is quite the PITA with these slicks! Took a little trial and error, but I got'er dialed in and going pretty good.

I came in shooting for a 8.3999 and a 60ft of 1.79, feasible goals I thought (previous best was 8.48 on a 1.81 60ft). My first was my grudge match against a 2v. He treed me, enough to get the win light with a 8.59 against my 8.42. Took the one white slip and didnt run anymore! Lol.

From there, things went downhill. Buncha 8.5s, 8.6s, missed shifts, 1.90 60fts, all bad, very frustrating. Finally put the tires at 17.5psi, 1st or 2nd gear burnouts, and 5.5-6k launches got the car coming around finally. Had some REAL tight runs with a bolton/LT/tune srt8 Jeep, bolton/geared ls1 camaro, and barely pulled on a brand new 'bumble bee' ss camaro (6spd), after missing 2nd.

Of course, I only put my better runs in the vid, who wants to see missed shifts and stuff? Also had the GoPro, but didnt get as many different angles as I wanted to. Still neat to see though. At the end, you can tell I just hit my goal, after a whole day of frustration and persistance, GREAT feeling!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZZ9zK...1&feature=plcp

z28th1s

Looks like alot of fun!! You guys got some good vids!! Sorry I wasn't able to come!!

Stone629

Driving the hell outta that car! Good runs, 97.

Curious what that LS1 was trapping in that one run. Any idea?

89LX Coupe

Full bolt on 6sp 4.10's bbk ssi intake 85mm tb 305 or 315 nitto dr running 8.1's all day and ticked off a 8.0x and was trapping 90 all day he might of pulled off a 91mph trap on the last run

89LX Coupe

Oh and stone right at the end of the day the da was right at 2000

Stone629

Thanks, 87. Sounds like a nasty LS1. He better be careful with those 4.10s, wide DRs, and 10 bolt on that manual trans though, lol. Those steeper gears have more teeth and less meat, therefore are easier to shatter in that tiny 7.5" rear.

Those are good ETs for the mods and a 2000' DA, 97. I wish you could run in some -DA like I did. Makes a huge difference!

89LX Coupe

The camaro hasn't been long getting the 10 bolt fixed lol the last time he was at the track sometime last fall he blew it out. But yes 97 need to run in some negitive da big time!

97tplsGT

Thanks Stone! Def need to quit being chickensh!t and shift that damn thing like the rest of my bloodline! I was told that the Barton shifter bracket would probably clear up a lot of my 2nd gear woes, so for $40 its worth a shot!

I really wonder what some -air and powershifts would have done for my times?

perfect.disguise

Nice runs.

crash

Loling at the 2v running only once. If I'm at the track, I try and get as many runs in as possible, no matter how slow I am