Well with the problems with my other car (oil and clutch problems), I decided it would be fun and relaxing (ok bad assumption starting off) to take the 'tour to the track and see if I could get some 14s. I decided to go to cecil, since that is my favorite track, and about as close as any others. Got there about 10am, stayed to almost 4, made maybe 10-11 runs. Would have been fun but I found myself getting frustrated by all the screwed up runs.
I have never missed third gear ever in the contour, yet today I missed on about half of the runs. On the street, I can launch with no wheelhop, at the track I wheelhopped so bad my radio came out of its bracket.
I was hoping to have a new computer chip from street flight, but that didnt work out, so there were some known tuning issues, which really didnt help. On the 3-4 shift, the car picked up 4th around 5k rpm, and I swear it was slowing down or bogging when I hit that shift, like the knock sensors were killing my timing. It was mid 60s and 40% humidity, not the ideal racing conditions I was looking for either.
Anyhow, my best run was a 15.26 @ 92 mph, on a 2.40 60'. Ill post the timeslip later if anyone is interested. This run the launch was a terrible medley of wheelhop and spinning tires, but I decided to stick with it. I also slightly tapped the 2-3 rev limiter. And this was my best run. I had a couple of other 15.2s also, but I was a little disappointed with the trap times on all the runs, the highest was in the 92-93 mph range. I also had a 2.34 60' (the best one all day) but I missed the 2-3 shift (hit right between the 1 and 3). All of the 15.2 runs had 9.9ish 1/8 times.
Thats my report, cant just post the good stories! As a side note too, my last dynot the car lost a bit of power from the 190 dyno (on a different dyno that I was told would be low, but still, there was more modifications done to it also, optimized TB, CTA, bigger K&N, and slightly different exhaust setup) with the knock sensors kicking in again at 4500rpm and killing my power (big dip in the graph, almost like the secondaries).
