A night at the strip....

[Jim Green]

> 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!

Yea, with my 215 rubber, there's not much chance of
getting the wheels to break without smoking the
clutch, at least on a strait drag strip.  Not to
mention our track is at about 6000 ft so just to get
the turbo spooled on launch takes probably another
1000 rpms over what you sea level guys are used to. 
Good idea on the Gtech, I still have a borrowed one
that I'll go play with.  I want 12's!

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Jim Green
'89 90tq
'89 80q
http://www.mswanson.com/~jgreen/car_home.html

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