[s-cars] Night at the Dragstrip With the S4

[calvinlc at earthlink.net]

At this altitude somewhere in the very low 15's is what I have seen for
stock ones.
--Calvin


-----Original Message-----
From: Aaron [mailto:aaront at cox-internet.com]
Sent: Monday, October 11, 2004 10:29 AM
To: calvinlc at earthlink.net
Cc: s-car-list at audifans.com
Subject: Re: [s-cars] Night at the Dragstrip With the S4


Anybody know what times a stock or stage 1 B5 s4 is good for?
Thanks
Aaron

calvinlc at earthlink.net wrote:

>I just thought I would share my results from the other night at the
>dragstrip.
>
>The Car:
>1992 UrS4.  Only modification was a chip, otherwise totally stock even down
>to the all-season 15x7.5 speedlines  The chip was a loaner from Chad Clark
>(Thanks Chad!) produced by Steve Eiche with the VMAP sensor.  The sensor
was
>set at the "2.8" setting.
>
>The track and conditions:
>The track was Bandimere Speedway in Morrison, CO.  Elevation is 5800 feet.
>Very high humidity as it stopped raining at 4:45 and the track wasn't
>finished being "dried" until 7:00, let's just say I am glad I was racing a
>Quattro car and not my '72 Firebird.  Temperature was approx. 55 degrees F
>for most of the night.
>
>I got to make 5 runs.  4 runs were between 14.66 seconds and 14.97 seconds
>with the 5th run being a horrible botch at the starting line resulting in a
>15.20.  The MPH trap speeds were all between 93.1 and 94.2.  All runs, with
>the exception of one experimental run, were finished in 3rd gear at about
>6700 rpm.
>
>The 14.66 run was a pretty good launch with a 2.05 second 60 foot time, so
>anybody who says you can't get these cars out of the hole is full of it;
>that's only 0.1 seconds more than what I could do with my '87 GTA with a
>fuel injected V-8 at sea level with unbelievable throttle response.
>
>This was basically designed as a test of what would just the chip
>accomplish.  Judging from the times that I ran with a stock setup in July
>and 90+ degree heat a couple of years ago (15.4) I am guessing that the
chip
>picked up about 0.5 to 0.6 seconds over a stock setup as the temp
difference
>accounts for probably 0.2 seconds of that change.
>
>There was a good Audi showing there.  There was a UrS6 there with an MTM
>chip that I think was running around 14.9 to 15.1.  There were a few B5
S4's
>there.  A couple with full Sportec stage 3 conversions running between 12.9
>to 13.7 seconds.  There were also a couple of custom jobs there.  An Audi
90
>with a 10 valve custom setup that I have seen run high 12's in the past
>didn't quite have the traction to get there that night.  Also a very nice
20
>valve stroker (2.5L) in a Quattro Coupe that ran as low as a 12.6.  Really
a
>great bunch of guys out there.  The only unfortunate part was there were no
>M-3s to spank.  Last time I was out with my Firebird there was a whole
>gathering of M-3's running 14.9 to 15.x.  Only a lone 525 running 17+
>seconds this time :)
>
>Just thought I would share the results for everybody's "notebooks".
>
>--Calvin
>
>
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