A night at the strip....

[Cody]

>--- Cody <Cody at mail.craincorporated.com> wrote:
>> 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
>
>
>Damn Cody, that's great, especially for having a stock
>EM and intercooler.  Did you run pump gas?  I have to
>say, that's better than my car with all the work I've
>done to it.  Can't wait to get back out there again
>and improve on my times through better driving and
>tunning.  Glad to see you beating up on the new cars.
>
>=====
>Jim Green
>'89 90tq
>'89 80q
>http://www.mswanson.com/~jgreen/car_home.html
>


Yeah on Shell 93 octane. I now have a bunch of 110 race fuel availible to me so I'll maybe be able to knock another couple of tenths off if I retune for that. I can just see you rushing to get out there and try to beat my times now, but it shouldn't be too hard because I know your car is lighter and has more power. My advice goes on the launch. I have used a G-Tech pro to test which method would be best for launching between either slipping the clutch a little bit or just dumping it from high revs. I know its not the most healthy method, but if you can get the tires to spin you will get a much much faster launch because you wont need to wait for the boost... it will be fully on boost by the time you get traction. "Tune" your tire pressures to get the car to hook up once your speed is about right to put your engine at 3500rpm. Too little tire pressure and you will get traction too quickly and bog while waiting for your turbo; too much tire pressure and you will just spin the !
tires until you either lift or get close to the end of first gear. Good luck!

-Cody Forbes
http://www.500tq.com
'86 5ktq
'87 5ktq EFI/K27
'88 80 4cyl
'88 90 4cyl