I’ll be the first to admit, curiosity got the best of me tonight and I wanted to run down the strip so bad. I had many things against me tonight:
Tires = 2/32nd’s and making the usage of launch control useless.
Track conditions = 76F / 29.98 mercury / 97% humidity makes for a DA of 1470 feet above sea level (despite a 50ft track elevation). It was humid, and unusually so for March in FL (normally doesn’t pick up until the end of April here)
I do have PSS tires arriving tomorrow to be installed, plus my ross-tech is sitting at the post office and I have not had time during their business to pick it up to log.
Mods: GIAC stage II / GIAC TCU / AWE-tuning pulley / JHM overdrive crank pulley / 034Motorsports TBB / AFE filter / drilled airbox / X-pipe mod
Gas = 1/4 tank remaining of my usual 93/E85 mix (37.7%)
60’ 1.687 (<— used LC here and spun w/ short shifting into 2nd)
330’ 4.824
1/8 7.438
MPH 95.04
1000’ 9.675
1/4 11.567
MPH 119.22
Note that my MPH on the above run is within .47 seconds compared to my non-dual pulley set-up where I ran 11.487 with a 60ft time of 1.656 with 5/32nd tires that gripped the track better and DA’s at least 1,000ft lower (DA on that run weeks ago was 368ft).
On that note, I did practice the two foot method, able to perform it consistently within 3 of my runs back to back , I was able to beat my previous best 60ft time (1.656), inching away now at 1.652, but curiously it didn’t deviate away from 11.5x@119mph. I think in DA’s more favorable and better 60ft’s with better tires/launch techniques (www.dragtime.com calculators agree, putting my at 11.38@121.21mph without taking into consideration better 60ft times that could be had with better tires).
Thoughts?
I’ll be going back closer to the end of March where the humidity is expected to drop to the normal 60% range and temps in the evening closer to high 60’s/low 70’s