Oh, and BTW, two cars with the same exact power level, except one is a big NA beast, and ones running a turbo, the FI car is going to out trap it no matter what. Period. End of story.

 

Not if they are a good driver. my 127 trap wasn't even close to what my car is capable of. I didn't even see WOT until 3rd gear, it wasn't because of a lack of traction. If I had been WOT in first and second, I probably would have ran something like a 13 second ET, and a 145mph trap :P

 

Which means that you can NOT compare your traps to other traps of N/A cars that are running similar times, because you just said it yourself. That your car is capable of a lot more.

Which is just like my example. I could go run a 14.5@102 and claim to be faster than a F/I car that got good traction and ran a 14.5@95 for example.

I just think you're being WAY too broad in your statements.

 

if you have the money for it, supercharge it. its the best way to add power. I, however dont have the spare change to forge my internals and buy a blower with supporting mods, so im looking at heads and cams for my stang.

 

no I'm not. The bottom line is that a NA car is going to out ET a FI car because of average power/torque, and a FI car is going to out trap it.

I'm telling you. Guys who are running 118 on FI cars are ET'ing 11.8, mainly because they don't have as much AVERAGE power as NA cars running the same ET.

I'm not generalizing at all. Go pull up timeslips of FI guys trapping 118. They are going to be running much higher ET's, and that's not because of a lack of traction.

FI pull more up top than NA cars for the most part. There are a few exceptions, but lets face it.

Look at Evolution performance. When Cody is running 9's and 8's in his purple car, he's trapping mid 130's. Evolution performance just put a GT500 into 8.90's trapping 160+mph. They ran mid 9's trapping 149. So running an equivalent time (ON SLICKS mind you), they were trapping 15mph faster than Cody's car.

 

oh, and yes I can compare my times to a guy running NA, because I was at the limit of traction and power. I couldn't have applied more throttle or more boost, otherwise I would have been slower, which means i was down on power.

Go get two guys, one NA, one FI, same powerlevel, the guy with FI is going to be trapping higher. Period

 

ok. so what good is trapping higher?

 

i can honestly say that i really dont understand what this concept of trapping is, lol. only went to the track once, dont understand everything yet lol. and jrock, arent heads and cams still going to be close to 2000? at that point u may as well do the 1500 dollar supercharge?

 

well, it's a good equalizer if your racing on something other than a drag strip, like on a open course or something. Plus, I was just pointing it out. Idk why 72mach is having such a tough time with it


you see that time in my sig, 11.07 @127mph? 127 was my trap speed, or my average speed over the last 60ft. Your "trap" speed is the terminal speed at the end of a run on a drag strip. So when it says 1/4 mph, that's your Trap speed

 

ok, i think i got ya. basically, a N/A car has more consistant power, which would make the trap speed lower since it runs at a more consistant pace. a S/C car has a high trap speed due to the higher top end power, a S/C car would play catch up while a N/A car may have the jump but they finish even? i think i got it? lol