Drag racing results: 4ktq --> 14.3@94.5

[JShadzi at aol.com]

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Mark, great stuff, glad you guys had fun!  It is pretty addictive ;)

Wow, 22psi, that's great, are you still running the CIS3 ignition system?
Glad you got the IIa running, did you notice that idle and low rpm performance
are better?

Good stuff,
Javad

In a message dated 9/15/2003 4:14:27 PM Pacific Standard Time,
mswanson at sonitrol.net writes:
Finally made it out to the drag strip with my 4ktq. What a blast!

I had been meaning to find time to head out to the New England Dragway
for a while but just never got around to it.  Every friday night they
basically open the track for people to more or less run whatcha brung
for $15 which buys you as many runs as you can get in (I managed 4).

I've never gone drag racing before so it was definitely a new experience
for me.  Embarrassing, but I didn't even understand how the staging
lights worked until the worker at the lights politely instructed me to
pull forward until the top two lights go on (duh).   I haven't really
watched much drag racing on tv so i had no idea.

I was hoping to run somewhere in the 14s by the end of the night and I
certainly got my wish.  The car was setup with around a 98 octane final
mix of toluene and 93octane pump gas.  Boost was set around 18psi to
start with and I kept crankin' the knob an extra turn after every run.
On the last run of the day I was hitting somewhere around 22psi with no
audible knock or hesitation (running 034 Stage IIa fuel only at the
moment).

My reaction times to start with were pretty slow as I was getting used
to things but here are the #'s from each of my runs:

Run 1: 15.153 @ 97.62
Run 2: 14.898 @ 94.68
Run 3: 15.001 @ 97.93
Run 4: 14.341 @ 94.5

the last and best run I did red light ever so slightly (R/T was .441)
but as I'm really only interested in my own time I don't really care
that I missed it by .059

Also of interest at the track was a sweet looking RS6 (the brakes on
this car are HUGE).  I didn't see it run, but Nate said that the car ran
the 1/4 mile bone stock in 12.9. Damn!


A couple of pics are up here:

  http://makeashorterlink.com/?G193258E5

the movie in the gallery was from my camera in movie mode mounted on the
dash behind my gauge pod during the last and fastest run.  I have to
edit it down when I get a chance as there is some wasted footage in the
beginning as there are 2 rows of cars staged ahead of me when the clip
starts.


So yeah, in summary I'll definitely be back.  This could get addictive.

Later


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-Marc
87' 4ktq
88' 90q
www.mswanson.com/audi