A night at the strip....
JShadzi at aol.com
JShadzi at aol.com
Sun Mar 7 21:44:49 EST 2004
Hey Cody, great time! - thanks for the detailed report, keep us posted.
Javad
In a message dated 3/6/2004 4:21:32 PM Pacific Standard Time,
Cody at mail.craincorporated.com writes:
Last night I figured I could use a good fun night out so I took myself on a
trip up to the local drag strip @ Moroso Motorsports Park in West Palm Beach.
Got 3 runs in and definately had a ton of fun. Ambient temp was about 80-85
degrees F between 9pm and 10:30 when I did my runs. All runs were launched with
diff locks on, and this was my first time there so my reaction times were quite
a bit off of what I'd like.
Run 1, 9:32pm:
Left Lane: Right Lane:
Some Pickup truck 5kTQ
R/T: .950 1.159
60': 2.474 1.801
330': 6.941 5.523
1/8m: 10.601 @ 68.19mph 8.650 @ 79.63mph
1000': 13.829 11.334
1/4m: 16.540 @ 81.13mph 13.627 @ 98.37mph
It was a good run, and the crowd was the best. I was running an open downpipe
so the car was quite loud and the turbo was pretty evident. When I pulled up
to line I'm told by friends that the crowd was basically laughing, then I
launched with all 4 tires in smoke and got a standing ovation. During the run I
noticed the engine breaking up from about 5000-6500rpm. I later figured out that
with the less exaust restriction I was running 3 tenths of a bar more then
usual and the map was going rich enough to flood it (my map spikes rich towards
all of the edges so that instead of blowing a motor I just flood it as a
safety). I did not have my laptop (doh!! big mistake) so I couldn't tune it, but it
will be fixed before the next time I go.
Run 2, 10:06pm:
Left Lane: Right Lane:
2003 Audi S4 w/ work 5kTQ
R/T: .710 1.307
60': 2.556 1.797
330': 6.483 5.553
1/8m: 9.706 @ 78.54mph 7.687 @ 79.55mph
1000': 12.322 11.380
1/4m: 14.517 @ 100.98mph 13.712 @ 97.04mph
When I lined up for this one I was thinking that it would be great fun, two
black Audis get to go together. I had seen this one in the parking lot and it
was _very_ nice. It had a beautiful front mount IC, and lots of carbon fiber
spread arround. I do have some pictures, but they aren't developed yet. It was
the only other Audi in the place, and actually I think it was the only other
VAG car. I pulled out quite a bit right on the launch (as seen in the 60ft
times) because he wasn't using the quattro advantage and only trickling the car off
the line and waiting for the boost to come up. Once I got going I was still
having a misfire above 5000rpm, which is why you can see where he started to
gain right towards the end (he had almost 4mph on me at the trap). He was pretty
angry after the run and wouldn't talk to me. His loss.
Run 3, 10:33pm:
Left Lane: Right Lane:
'98 Mustang 5kTQ
R/T: .681 1.019
60': 2.523 1.849
330': 6.607 5.574
1/8m: 9.863 @ 77.35mph 8.676 @ 80.18mph
1000': 12.646 11.369
1/4m: 14.952 @ 95.95mph 13.674 @ 98.44mph
Same top end misfire, nothing really exciting happened here. Once I fix that
I should be able to drop another tenth off and get to a 13.5 @ over 100mph and
be pretty happy. I'm also going to get some new tires so I can get some
traction in first gear, now I'm spinning all 4 through almost all of first gear.
Also my suspension is roughly 200,000 miles old and the weight transfers a bit
more then I like. Some new shocks should help that, and in all honesty I could
use control arm bushings in the rear. All this on the stock header and stock
intercooler, both of which are major bottlenecks in my power curve. Next time
I'm going to take some dry ice for my intercooler and lower my tire pressures
by a few pounds (32psi in the tires for last night, it should have been 25psi
or so but I didn't have a gauge so I didn't want to go by feel) which should
give a touch more speed.
I'll post the pictures on my website when I get them developed.
-Cody Forbes
http://www.500tq.com
'86 5ktq
'87 5ktq EFI/k27
'88 80 4cyl
'88 90 4cyl
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