I did not know what to expect taking my car out to the track today. So many things had changed since I had last been there I don't even know where to start...
...so I guess I'll just start with the times...
13.94, 13.97, 13.99, 14.01, 14.02, 14.08 - those were my 6 best times today and none of them I would consider a perfect or even "near" perfect run.
My first 13, the 13.994 came after 4 consecutive back to back runs (I.E NO COOLDOWN) when I first got there and it was empty. Needless to say when I finally cracked the 13 (after 2 14.0x's) I parked the car for 30 mins and cleaned my pants...
I had a TERRIBLE PROBLEM with launching and the shift to 2nd gear (which I missed or had to slow over HALF the time!
An ALL TO COMMON occurrence for the day!)
1st gear was beyond worthless even at the track. My best launches came by dumping the clutch at 2000rpm and rolling into the throttle and then shifting to 2nd by 5000rpm since first was worthless.
If my numbers were not already so stellar I may have tried a 2nd gear launch just to see what it would do. (bye bye axles & ouch ouch clutch
)
Oh you want the trap speed too...
...are you sitting down folks...
101.1 to 101.6mph - No I didn't believe it either after I saw my first time slip!!!
My first run went something like this...
1st gear = wheel spin to devastating wheel hop
2nd gear, 2nd gear, 2nd gear - err about 2-3seconds later it finally went into 2nd (a common occurrence ALL DAMN DAY
)
I still ran a 14.7 @ 100.8mph I nearly drove off the damn return road after I saw the trap speed on the time slip. No kidding!!!
Then I quickly went back and backed it up over and over again.
The car was consistent all day long even in back to back to back runs. If you take out my crappy 1-2 shifting the split times from 330' on are bracket racing consistent on every run.
Here is a scan of 2 slips. One from each lane even (ran 13's in both lanes and trap speed was within 1 mph all day long)
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That 13.94 run had the best 60' time but my shift to second sucked. If it had the same time splits as the 13.99 run it would have been a 13.80-13.85 easily. I have gotten a little rusty at my speed shifting.
So how were the other cars fairing today...
Several SRT-4's were there. All posting 14.2-14.6 @ 98-99mph
Several GTP's posting mid 14's and some much higher.
Several nice MACH1's posting mid 13's @ 102-103.
Several Lightnings posting very low 14's
My best race of the day was verses a newer F-body. LS1 Slushbox
My 14.08 @ 101.3 beat his 14.10 @ 99.2
Including the fact I treed him slightly it was a margin of victory of just .07 seconds.
Not too bad considering he had a good 2 tenths on me at 330' (~3 tenths including RT) and I still drove around him...
I knew my car felt very strong in the mid range and top end with the new engine but these times and trap speeds today have me just flabbergasted to say the least.
I guess I should have known something was special since the G-Tech has been spitting out 0-60mph times in the mid to high 5's for months now.
13's at over 101 mph on all motor & street tires!!!
