puhekracing,
I want a full size hi res pic of your burn out! Thats bad ***!

 

i still cant believe that....i mean a 14.6 isnt a bad time but on the bottle it is. I know even brent was breaking into high 14s on basic bolt ons. It just does not make any sense to me why you arent running mid to low 14s at least with that big shot of nos and the bolt ons you have.

 

Well lets see what has he done (brent??)to his car? We have done 0 weight reduction what tire size is he running, is he running street tires, dot slicks, slicks? Has it even been to the track?Not to get pissy but why dont you offer some constructive critism instead of just saying its slow with the bottle, maybe he has something we dont and havent thought of it. I am the only one that talks about racing one of theses and posts pics to prove it.

 

Whoa calm down first....im not dissing you at all....im just sort of puzzled. Brent honestly if i remember right which at the time it was in his spirit....had little to no weight reduction. It wasnt the first time to the track either.....he started in the 15s/16s then worked his way down. What is killing your times in my opinion is the auto. To pull a 14.6 is still nothing to be ashamed of at all. Im just trying to figure out here if something is holding you back besides the rev limiter.

 

Cant find my 14.8 slip, just 14.9's....or ANY slips from before 2005 (when I had raced the car as an auto) Spirit, 2950# race weight 4speed auto trans in 2002..Sea level that car ran 16.1 with 52mm tb and NO mods on 4 speed auto @ low 80mph. Removed exhaust after cat and it ran 15.48@87.99 on the auto trans. My friend josh simon (who has the fastest n/a 3.0 without crazy mods 14.2@97ran the same)had his spirit run 16.1's@82mph with 52mm tb and some better 60's on a 3 speed auto so I dont see a big difference between the transmissions at this performance level.
After race season I went ported plenum, 58mm TB, full 3" exhaust.
Swaped to a 5 speed trans with fidanza aluminum flywheel in the spirit and 1 week later....
Out of town for 2 years
Back for 2005 race season. I race all season at high altitude with the 5 speed trans and the new mods.
Visited my parents for 2 weeks back at sea level. All my traps were 91-92mph and 14.8-14.9 with 2.2 60's on all season tires and suspension mods.
Turbocharged the car and ran 13.9@101.89mph on 5psi boost, same street tires but only 2.3 60'

The only numbers that we are really "bugging" about are the trap speeds. They are way low. I think you are having serious issues with the auto trans. I would suggest at least buying a manual trans setup to make some runs with if you are serious about getting your car "right". then you can see where your auto should be and then use the auto if you are bracket racing etc.
N/A cars about the same weight as yours are running 89-90mph with no spray. I am assuming your converter is "lock up"
Still you should not have insane converter slip in a 90mph car.

 

Im really glad that brent can explain things....because i cant

 

Ok give some ideas to make it faster. We want low 14's a high 13 would be great. Post any and all ideas lets see if we can come up with something.

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OurDaytona is a 1986 Turbo Z that we purchased new on August 14, 1986. The car has been a garage queen almost from day one and currently shows just 7025 oruginal miles. I know its boring to some but its pretty much bone stock. I can't find any pics here to post but, there is one at www.SDAC.org. Go to the site and hit the PHOTOS icon, then the SDAC-15 icon, my car is on page 3, its the last car in row 2.

 

Very nice! Nothing boring abouta nicecar! and 7,000 miles! wow! [sm=smiley20.gif]

 

this is funny it almost sounds like a RICER just typed all that. Whos is this guy trying to fool with all this Bull****....I've been a proud member of TURBODODGE.COM for almost a year and i know for a fact that all that stuff you just listed DOES NOT EXIST....why would you go around liying to people like that...ITS FUNNY HOW EVERYTHING IS [B]TITANIUM[B] why would you need TITANIUM is youre not even using forced induction..even stock internals can take a little BOOST and they arent TITANIUM. And why do you need modefied computers all around the car? And now your car can hit 120mph in third gear...wow i gues having a five speed in my car is pointless.