Intro and First time at the strip

I have made a few posts here and there on AR, but figured since I hit the dragstrip today for the first time ever it seems like a good excuse for a formal intro and to post some timeslips (even if they scream noob).

Always been a huge mustang and audi fan. Had 4 mustangs including a 2000 GT vert, a 2002 Audi A6 2.7 6MT that I loved. Only ever got around to doing some minor mods on the GT, but that’s about it. Due to kids, commute, etc I made the mistake of getting rid of A6 for a Jetta commuter car. Well after almost 7 years of that I decided it was time to go back to something more fun with the intent of actually going to a track vs just talking about it and actually doing some real mods down the road. Ended up with a 2014 S4 6MT loaded.

Well this weekend JimmyBones was nice enough to let me tag along with him to the MIR dragstrip. Thanks to him and some great info posted here I had a blast and will totally be going back again.

Made 7 runs (a couple were really bad), but learned a lot. (Car #1379)

My best run was ET 13.284 @ 104.11 with a 1.869 60’

Car is bone stock with 1200 miles on it, 174lbs driver and I didn’t bother taking the spare out this go round.

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Nice, man. Always great to see more B8 1/4 mile passes. Sounds like you had a good time. How were the conditions?

Great to get bone stock runs on record so you can see how well your mods perform.

Hey, welcome and I can never see enough timeslips… because it means people are getting out there and having fun! Who’s 1378, you guys went head to head a few times!

I think temp was about 40-45 this morning.

1378 was JimmyBones. He had a really good run right before I had to leave and broke into the 11’s I believe.

According to dragtimes it was between 46.4 to 44.6 degrees F when mmmkam was running. The DA was between -832 to -988 feet.

Yes I was car #1378 but I never broke into the 11’s today. Did make a few good 12 second runs.

Thank you very much again for making it out and I am working on the videos/other posts now so I will follow up with you in a bit.

Mmmmkamm good stuff. Some of those slips are hilarious. I’m trying to figure out what happened on some. The first one you launched very well. Did you miss second gear? Then get back in it and miss fourth gear and quit the run?

Good to see you guys had the buddy system. Any video?

Lets just say was definitely a learning experience. Most of the runs the shifing wasn’t to bad, but took at easy on a couple to get my feet wet. The 5th run, the really odd looking ticket, I totally missed a shift, over reved, and the car was not happy. All was good, cleared a couple codes, got back on the horse and pulled my best run of the day on the very next run.

Terrific data on the performance of a 2014 6mt. Thanks for sharing.