tonight me and buddy went and ran them we have ran them dozens of times when we used to race we measured his loss by 4-5 cars we both had cutots and intakes but for some reason he wanst that fast. tonight we raced i now have hooker lt's custom ypipe off headers to one slp dual intake airfoil tb bypass 3.23 and khumo's with about 80% tread. now he has intake catback (pieced together) 2300 stall stock tranny same as me same tires less tread and intrax 2 in srpings (thats all). he beat me by about 4 cars i tried to launch first time aat about 1700rpm sat there and had a burnout contest by myself he hooked up good left. second time i luanched 1500 same thing cooked them had to let off get back on ran him down but still had about 3 on me. i know the launch is one of the most important things but why couldnt i hook up the tires are 245-50-16. help suggestions and anything ese weird situation. i am going to dyno tommorow in rpm in lewisville tx to see what is my output never have dynod before. please write back with any ideas thanks

 

Wow. Just......wow.

 

Wow, indeed. Let's see if I can translate:

Ah, that's better. Now, on to your question. You don't have a sig and you didn't say what your car is, so going off of your screen name, I'm guessing you have a '93 Trans Am. You also don't say anything about what your buddy drives, but you seem to expect the cars to perform similarly, so I'm guessing he has a 4th-gen LT1 as well. Both cars have automatic transmissions.

You want to know why he's beating you now? Because the only mod you've done to improve your launch is your tires. He has the same tires, suspension, and a 2300-stall converter. You run him down once you get hooked, so you obviously has more power. He's just getting more of it to the ground sooner than you are.

Get yourself a nice converter and do all the usual stuff to the rear suspension, and you should take him easily. If you're planning on doing more power mods, you should consider a wider rear tire, too.

-Jake, the translator.

 

thanks...my universal translater was on the fritz...

traction is everything.

have you done routine maintenance recently? maybe he slipped something more into his car when you weren't looking.

something as simple as bad gas could cause knock retard and cost you a race.

 

Oh yeah, and your buddy learned to drive, too.

 

Thanks for the translation. When I signed up here 3 years ago, I could have sworn that I was promised a secret decoder ring, but I'm still waiting.

 

well for now it is cool i just couldnt launch with those headers i heard from the guy i bought them from i basically needed drag radials or bigger tires i went and ordered bmr suspension parts for the real strut brace control arms panhard bar so with some drag radials and this something should happen

 

hahaha ^

TONY

 

This boy can't take a hint. I'm not translating that.

Nightrider, buy yourself some LCA's with relocation brackets. It will make a huge difference.

 

holy crap you have the worst grammar in the history of mankind i can't believe that you have no sense of sentence structure or punctuation how did you make it through high school did you make it through high school i have a tendency to ramble and utter nonsensicalities i'm not even sure if that is a real word but it doesn't matter cause i'm sure you will understand exactly what I'm saying well I guess its time for me to go now i have to make sure the gun is loaded before i put it in my mouth but im sure you know what i mean

 

Man. I'm getting a kick out of this thread!

 

^^^Me too

 

Down here in Texas we don't worry to much about sentence structure. So i wil make it easy for you. I went and bought the bmr panhard bar and the boxed lca's. so im sure we will race as soon as i get this parts on. i am going to dyno my car today here at rpm in lewisville so i will post the numbers this weeked. thomas

 

Your slowness is rubbing off on your car.

 

Pahaaha! ™