Also, another random remark, but didn’t you use gas that has been sitting there for 10 months? Did you put fuel stabilizer in there? Couldn’t the gas absorb a bunch of water?
I’ve run my car on a 90% water 10% gas mix and it doesn’t work >:(
You are making my point for me. It appears some of my computers simply don’t want to work properly sometimes. However, I’m happy for you.
I have no idea the age of the gas. In a sealed 5 gallon can. How long did the dealer have it before I bought it? Good question! It would be nice to blame it on that but I think it would be wishful thinking?
If you are going out to test your launches and such, do it without the extra brake calipers and see if you can log to make sure the car is shifting like it should. And definitely don’t shift manually, keep it in sport mode. A lot of the fastest guys don’t need to use LC, although maybe the GIAC guys are doing so now? But you can get into the 11’s easy without LC.
Will do. I’ll figure it out yet. Thanks
I think you mean a plain.
Plane! If only I could edit my posts.
:-\
It’s an automatic transmission…you just go. There’s no shifting. There’s no wondering what mode to be in. There’s no figuring. Your job is to keep the fuel right, to keep the program switcher right, and to keep the car straight. That’s pretty much it.
The shit in the trunk (rear calipers for parking brake) is changing nothing. It’s what…40-50 lbs in the trunk? Big deal. Leave it there. It’s like not taking the spare out.
Get your traction control all the way off, put the car in S, engage launch control (whatever order that needs to be) and you’re set. Just go straight and touch nothing but the steering wheel and the keep the gas pedal to the floor until you hit 125 mph on your speedo. Then hit the brakes.
p.s. what did you do for weight reduction…remove the interior seats? We need this information for the list.
Well, if you were nicer I’d tell you.
P.s. I red or was told somewhere 100 lbs of weight makes .10 of a second difference in ET?
It’s ok, you needn’t tell me. You do need to tell the forum though. Or you just won’t go on our list. The time is weird enough that I reckon REVO is happy about that.
100lbs in a 350 hp 4000 lb car would be around a 10th, yes
when you’re deep into the 12s and trapping 115 mph or so, you need a bit more than 100 lbs to make up a tenth.
I removed about 65 lbs (?) of garbage, no spare or jack/tools. Headrests, rear seat bottom, all the garbage in the glove boxes. I’m 6’2" and weigh about 210. Maybe if I cut my head off it would help? I’m going to see if the trunk mounted calipers did in fact cause the launch control to fail, only went to 2000 RPM. I honestly thought I had it all nailed down and then the computers started to confuse this old fart.
The truth is there should be safeties in the car that prevented launch control from working. If it isn’t happy, it restricts the car. Sounds like REVO left them intact. That’s progress for them!
Spare is 40-50 lbs
rear seat bench is about 30 lbs
tools/jack is another 5 or so
headrests are maybe 5
so you have about 100 lbs removed, but only about 40 lbs more removed than everyone else from there. With the calipers in the trunk. Not a big difference, probably a wash.
So I can keep my head? Correction, rear seat bench, bottom half of seat, is only about 8 lbs, just a guess but no where near 30lbs. Thanks.
While this isn’t theoretically the best time possible if you line up the lunar calendar, the solar calendar, the magnetic field of the earth’s core, and the percentage of negative ions in the evening dew, it’s a pretty awesome time. As an every day indicator he’s a full 1 second faster in a 1/4 mile than a car off of the dealer lot, and is faster than most if not every 15 year old supercar. This time exceeds a brand new M3, which is pretty good for a car that is essentially a carry over from 2009 with some bolt ons.
There’s a lot of reasons we can troll Skywagon, like for being the oldest douchebag that we know. Having a slow car is not one of them. Because he’s determined, one day he will pull off a hail mary time and achieve forum glory. He’s not the first, but he’s a good test case for trying to repeat the experiment. For anyone posting in this thread that hasn’t taken their car to a drag strip, try it yourself and find out just how hard it is to replicate the time. Like launching a rocket into space, it doesn’t ever go as planned and many weekends are scrapped trying.
LOL! Dude you are a fucking idiot, end of story… FYI… Stock B8 S4’s trap 106-108 stock, mine went 108.xx 100% stock, so his 110 trap is garbage, unfortunately who knows why… Quit making shit up to fit in the bizzaro world you live… Explain the B8 with tune, pulley and intake that went 11.77 at 118 this past Sat. in a simialr DA… His times just weren’t good…
west is referring to his ET of 12.1 which is indeed a full second faster than stock (most B8 guys went 13.0-13.2 stock). he made no reference to trap speed.
trap speed can change dramatically if you hit the brakes before the line.
Prime, you may have answered the question yourself, I’m not a B 8 but a dreaded B 8.5.
Take 10 street dbags with leased S4’s and you’ll get 13’s all morning.
And also lets add to the fact that same B8 that went 11.77 has 80000 miles on it with seats head rests all included. LOL I dont know much about tunes but this time revo is lagging a bit in the performance department
The fastest 2010+ S4 1/4 mile time on record is a B8.5