WS-6 Kill
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WS-6 Kill
Went out to KC last night and met up at the usual spot. This is my 2nd time out here and the first time on my new motor combo, so no one really knows me (except the Lawrence and Overkill crowd), so setting up races is a little bit dicey. We figured though, theres a couple cars out there that would make for a good, exciting race.
I decided on one of 2 black T/As. Both are cammed, both have LS6 intakes, and both have LTs, and 6 speeds. The one difference, though, is one is a WS6 on street tires and the other is a regular T/A on E/T Street bias plies. This being my first night out, I chose to run the WS6 because I figured it would come down to a driver race. At first I was a little unsure about having him covered since I heard he made in the neighborhood of 404-408 rwhp depending on who you asked. The longer I thought about it though, I figured I had him covered. I made less power than he did, but on a DynoDynamics setup, so I figured I was closer to his 400 Dynojet mark anyways. I had also iced my blower and iced my intercooler reservoir, unlike the runs I made on the dyno, so I figured just that alone netted me close to another 10-15 rwhp.
After relocating to a spot where the riff-raff wouldnt follow us, we decided on a stretch of highway overpassing another highway. We line up and he 3 honks us off. I couldn't even hear the 3rd honk over his tires roasting, but I found out later I didnt jump the honk, unlike what I had previously thought. Anyways, he roasted his tires in first, while I just rolled into the throttle and pinned it at the top of 1st after I had gotten a bit of a rolling start. I immediately put a fender on him, but he hit 2nd gear before I did and he jumped out a fender on me right afterwards. I hit 2nd 0.5 seconds after that and managed to make up that lost ground. It sounded like he was shifting really late, so I used something I learned at the track to my advantage and short shifted the 2-3 shift and bounced right back into my Eaton powerband. At that point I put his front bumper and the middle of my door and even got him to my back bumper at one point and held him there all the way to ~140 or so.
Fun night, no accidents/tickets, and best of all I earned some respect
for myself and the shop.
PS - The best part was his plate said SNKKILR [
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I decided on one of 2 black T/As. Both are cammed, both have LS6 intakes, and both have LTs, and 6 speeds. The one difference, though, is one is a WS6 on street tires and the other is a regular T/A on E/T Street bias plies. This being my first night out, I chose to run the WS6 because I figured it would come down to a driver race. At first I was a little unsure about having him covered since I heard he made in the neighborhood of 404-408 rwhp depending on who you asked. The longer I thought about it though, I figured I had him covered. I made less power than he did, but on a DynoDynamics setup, so I figured I was closer to his 400 Dynojet mark anyways. I had also iced my blower and iced my intercooler reservoir, unlike the runs I made on the dyno, so I figured just that alone netted me close to another 10-15 rwhp.
After relocating to a spot where the riff-raff wouldnt follow us, we decided on a stretch of highway overpassing another highway. We line up and he 3 honks us off. I couldn't even hear the 3rd honk over his tires roasting, but I found out later I didnt jump the honk, unlike what I had previously thought. Anyways, he roasted his tires in first, while I just rolled into the throttle and pinned it at the top of 1st after I had gotten a bit of a rolling start. I immediately put a fender on him, but he hit 2nd gear before I did and he jumped out a fender on me right afterwards. I hit 2nd 0.5 seconds after that and managed to make up that lost ground. It sounded like he was shifting really late, so I used something I learned at the track to my advantage and short shifted the 2-3 shift and bounced right back into my Eaton powerband. At that point I put his front bumper and the middle of my door and even got him to my back bumper at one point and held him there all the way to ~140 or so.
Fun night, no accidents/tickets, and best of all I earned some respect
for myself and the shop.PS - The best part was his plate said SNKKILR [
]
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From: Where gunshots are more common than birds chirping
RE: WS-6 Kill
ORIGINAL: JD1969
Nice race, what tires are you running? Did you guys go from a dig up to 140? If so why?
Nice race, what tires are you running? Did you guys go from a dig up to 140? If so why?
On a side note, this website is starting to annoy me slightly. I have to go back and erase all my apostraphes so that dont turn into a double quotation mark.
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RE: WS-6 Kill
Yea its a glitch that came about after the hackers got in, I know it is being worked on, but you re right it is annoying. I am happy to hear of people racing from a dig, thats how it should be, although I dont know if I would want to run my 140 on a suface street, kinda scarry on slicks and skinnies.
