hotairgypsy

I went to the local track tonight and got 2 passes in. Tonight was my first time EVER running a track and it was a HOOT!!! My times sucked but give me a break...i was a virgin too this. I still need to figure out how to drive this car on the 1/4 mile. What advice do you all suggest...here are my time slip times for both runs

RUN 1

Reaction time 0.872
60ft 2.570
mph 102.27
finish 14.685

this is how you get mopped by a 10 sec car...this is the video of run 1

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ohVd_6q-2VQ


Run 2

dropped tire pressure to 25lbs

reaction time 2.39
60ft 2.39
MPH 105.98
finish 13.479

race 2 was against a turbo'd Honda S2000...i beat him by .8 of a sec

http://youtube.com/watch?v=-8Kxu450YXE


i know my 60ft sucks but still learning to keep the wheels from spinning. I was smoking the crap out of them

cheftjpeck

I am not a track expert.....but yeah it looks like you had a very tough time hooking for sure....allot of power in your beast....I am sure with time and practice..you will get allot better.....now I will let the experts advise you what to do....

Diabolical!

Whoa. Time for some sticky tires!

acdc163

At least you didnt leave the traction control on like I did the first time

moosestang

Somethings not right. While your 60 ft times are terrible, you should still be trapping much, much, much, much higher than 105mph. Was this track at 10,000 feet above sea level or something?

Someone help me out here, i don't get it?

MexGT

I agree that you should be trapping in the 115+ mph zone.

GidyupGo

Drink about 5 cups of high test coffee to get jacked off the line and have a better reaction time.

HaneyMotorsport.Com

Looking at your sig, you must be making some decent power! With out having a good tire on it, it is useless. We took our car to the track this week end (first time it has seen the 1320) and could do no better than 13.20on the 20" radials. We slapped on some 17" DR and with a crappy burn out got it to go 12.70 at 115.8. This was rolling the clutch and throttle at 2k......car had major tire shake! Time for suspension

The best advise I can say is practice practice oh and tire!! DO NOT worry about your reation time. You work on that once you have launching the car down.

Goood Luck and Have Fun!!!


Casey

miltoneagle

yeah i had the same experience.

14.1 at 103

mods are listed below but im thinkin the stock tires are killing me. Also had them inflated to 34 ft/lbs. Any other suggestions anyone or whats a good tire pressure to run on.

GidyupGo

That 34 was OK for the front tires, but you may want to drop the rears to 25.