[s-cars] Friday Night Drags at Mission Raceway (long)

[Sean Douglas]

Bob:

No - definitely no power shifts. All shifts were lift throttle.

Sean



> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bob Frizzell [mailto:bobfrizzell at shaw.ca] 
> Sent: Sunday, June 27, 2004 9:25 PM
> To: Sean Douglas; s-car-list at audifans.com
> Subject: Re: [s-cars] Friday Night Drags at Mission Raceway (long)
> 
> 
> Sean,
> From my limilted experience with friends who raced years ago 
> I'm sure your car will run 14 seconds or even sub-14.  Did 
> you power shift it - i.e., pull and push on the shifter like 
> there's no tomorrow when it's in gear, then hit the clutch 
> and ram it into the next gear?  Accelerator to the floor all 
> the while.  That's what we used to do back in the 60's but 
> I'd understand if you didn't, I wouldn't with mine.  It's 
> probably worth a second in the 1/4 though. Bob
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Sean Douglas" <quattro20v at telus.net>
> To: <s-car-list at audifans.com>
> Sent: Saturday, June 26, 2004 11:07 PM
> Subject: [s-cars] Friday Night Drags at Mission Raceway (long)
> 
> 
> > I went out to the street legal drags at Mission Raceway (near 
> > Vancouver,
> > BC) last night. This was my first time (newbie), so bear with me.
> >
> > After tech, I weighed in at 3910 lbs with driver (I weight 150 lbs) 
> > and was in the Sport Compact class (a 3900 lb sedan is a compact?). 
> > This mostly consisted of Integras, Eagle Talons TSIs, Honda Civics, 
> > etc. There was a really trick 1994 Toyota Supra, modified to 475 HP 
> > ATW (I saw his dyno graph), he had a hard time hooking up 
> and was in 
> > the mid-13's. A lot of the cars had turbo kits on it and 
> were stripped 
> > down to only the driver seat. There was only one other Audi, a 2001 
> > bi-turbo S4, tweaked with a chip and exhaust. I spoke with the S4 
> > driver, who didn't do very well that night as his shift 
> knob broke off 
> > in the middle of a run, but he said his best time was 14.2 
> sec. My car 
> > was the only "family car" in the Sport Compact class and I left the 
> > baby Recaro seat in for kicks. I received a few funny 
> comments about 
> > that!
> >
> > Spec on my car: RS2 turbo, RS2 exhaust manifold, RS2 injectors, RS2 
> > MAF and 370HP chipset from B. Pastore. I had a 3/4 tank of 
> 94 octane 
> > with about 15% toluene, which by my calculations netted 
> 96.5 octane. 
> > The weather was overcast and warm, 24 celcius. Boost was 
> hitting 25-26 
> > psi and holding past 6,000 rpm.
> >
> > Since I am a newbie, I'm not familiar with the whole Christmas tree 
> > thing. From what I can tell, it's a "pro tree" and after the yellow 
> > pre-stage and stage bulbs are lit, all three amber lights 
> come on at 
> > once, then there is a delay (presumably 0.400 sec) then green. I 
> > figured out by the 2nd run to react as soon as the 3 ambers are lit.
> >
> > Run #1: R/T 1.475, 60' 2.569, 1/4 14.527, MPH 99.77
> >
> > On my first run, I ended up staging too far and turned off the 
> > pre-stage bulb. This confused me and I blew the start and 
> by the time 
> > I realized the green light was on, over a second had elapsed. I 
> > slipped the clutch at about 2,500 rpm.
> >
> > Run #2: R/T .584, 60' 2.434, 1/4 15.015, MPH 94.53
> >
> > On the second run, I tried dumping the clutch at 4,000 rpm. 
> It didn't 
> > work, the whole car shuddered and I think the EDL kicked in and 
> > applied the brakes to one of the wheels, it sound like a bang, like 
> > the ABS was cycling and for a while I thought I broke something.
> >
> > Run #3: R/T .658, 60' 2.530, 1/4 14.523, MPH 101.71
> >
> > On the third run, I slipped the clutch again at about 2,500 rpm.
> >
> > As you can see, with 370 HP (advertised) my car is not 
> terribly quick, 
> > slipping the clutch at 2500 rpm causes the motor to bog 
> down. I figure 
> > by slipping the clutch at a higher rpm will probably reduce the 60' 
> > time and hence 1/4 mile by maybe 0.3 - 0.4 sec which would 
> net me in 
> > the low 14's. In the interest of saving the clutch lining, I didn't 
> > attempt this. I figure this is how the road test drivers for car 
> > magazines do it and assume this is how Car and Driver gets 14.9 sec 
> > from a bone stock S6 with 227 HP.
> >
> > The one thing that still confuses me is that I don't think 
> the R/T is 
> > used in any calculations of ET. On run #1, I had a horrible 
> R/T, but 
> > still managed a 14.5 sec ET. From what I understand, the timer does 
> > not start until the car leaves the starting line 
> (unblocking the stage 
> > beam).
> >
> > Any words of wisdom or advice from experienced drag racers would be 
> > appreciated.
> >
> > Sean Douglas
> > 1997 Audi S6
> >
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