15 psi on a street tire.. I reccomend NOT doing that again,, ever....

Your 60' is *as I'm sure you will come to learn* out of this world.. lol...

Come into throttle with ALOT more clutch next time, and until you gain traction, keep your foot off the floor.

You'll be amazed at what kind of a difference even a 2.2 60' or so will make. And your relatively low trap speed is coming from being new with the car.

I went 4 times before I felt like I was shifting well at all. Your first time out is learning, and almost nothing else.

 

+1, with the stiff sidewall regular tires have all you are doing is lifting the middle of the tire off the contact patch, keep your pressure above 25 PSI on a regular tire, low PSI is for drag radials only.

Hell, with the nittos I don't dip past 18, and the MTs I just barely let it see 15 PSI cold... and thats on a tire with a 50 sidewall on a 15 inch rim

 

yeah like i said i mean i shift ok but im sure i have a lot more room to improve... i knew that i would be learning but i raced my friend in his 97 camaro and he ran a 14.7 and beat him by a car but i murderd him off the line... shouldnt i atleast be around 14.4... do yall think the tune up with help?... andhoss302 where do you live... cause the night i went it had rained all day and stopped at about three and then i went to the track with like 90% humidity and it like 85 degrees outside it was nasty!

 

oh and yeah about dropping my tire preassure... i did run the 15.0 at 35 psi and when i dropped it i did run slower... iunno i know for sure im gettin bfg's kdw's not drag radials yet cause im going to get 10.5 inch rims on the back soon and dont want to waste too much money on the 8.5 tires right now...

 

I think you are missing the wise advise of the previous posts. If your car isn't running properly, sure that's going to be a factor in low et/mph results, but don't get inthe mindset that you're going to be John Force after your first couple, (thousand), times out.

My first time out in my car, well, I'm not going to tell you how horrible I was. But I sucked BIG time. Mainly because I had no idea what in the heck I was doing, I didn't know how to properly drive the car,and I wentto the stripin what I thought was a fast car on street tires. Boy was I wrong.

Your 60' times mirror what mine were when I first took my car out. Spin city baby. I don't care what suspension mods you've done to the car, street tires are not going to hook up as well as a DR oreven close to aslick.

I'm way out of stock trim in my car and I stillhave problems hooking my, (almost 12.5" wide),DR's on the launch.By the way, like others have said, not a good idea dropping down to that low of a pressure on your street tires. Well, unless you plan on driving out into the sand dunes.

My problem at this point is not having the proper suspension set-up for optimal weight transfer.

Don't be to hard on yourself or your car. This is going to sound corny as heck, but practice makes perfect. Trust me, you'll never be perfect but without practice, you'll never know how close to perfect you can get.

Um, just in case yougo outshoppingfor a brand new high performance set of plug wires for your 2002 GT, you need to know something. Your 2002 GT doesn't have any plug wires.

 

Street racing has very little to do with drag racing at a strip. At the strip, the single most important factor is launch, and because the surface is prepped you can get alot more traction. A car that is setup for the strip might run an identical time to you, but with a much better 60' time, and you would beat him on the street, where traction is more limited.

 

Well, the way I look at it, yes your 60ft is bad... but so is your 1/8th, when I was stock I ran a 9.4 1/8th mile, there fore I think your spinning pretty good going into second gear right after your 60ft mark... Im sure If you had good tires + practice your car would be running low 14's... I dont think theres anything to worry about.

 

Anyone else notice the MPH was 75.32? That is really low....

 

That was for his 1/8 mile

 

whoops! didn't read that...bleh