Stock 1/8th times

1996 trans am ram air A4 completely stock besides a k&n in the box and the addition of tires yesterday.Been to the track twice in the last two weeks, last time on 245/45/18 street rubber......last night i was on some 275/35/18 bfg drag radials and to my surprise they didnt help with S@#T!

The drag radials are just as easy to light up as the 245/45s!

best time last week-reaction-.705
60 ft- 2.161-street tires (runflats at that:))
594 ft.- 8.700
1/8 et- 9.281
mph- 77.47

worst time last week-reaction-.731
60 ft.- 2.314
594 ft.-8.992
1/8 et-9.582
mph- 76.27

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best time last night-reaction-.660
60 ft.-2.166-bfg drag radials :(
594 ft-8.697
1/8 et-9.277
mph-77.60

worst time last night-reaction-.711
60 ft.-2.375
594 ft.-9.163
1/8 et-9.762
mph-75.12

What the hell is wrong with this car? everyone says it should be faster than this and i have to agree i dont see too many lt1 cars in the 9 second zone at my track? ...........oh and i think ive broken something in the rear end of the car , i thought it was my drag radials popping but when i aired them back up my car still pops in the rear end if you take off hard......not good.:(

sounds like a normal stock LT1 time to me. Mine ran 9.27s at 78 with a CAI and catback. My times were a little slow IMO so I got some tuning software and sure enough, I had knock spikes with a stock tune and 93octane. After some messing around, it ran much better and no knock. No times before/after for comparison since I added headers. BTW, what track were you at (elevation) and what was the weather?

jackson dragway in jackson,tn....the weather was problably like 60 deg and dropped off and got cold after the first hour, i mean abnormally cold i could see my breath in front of my face cold lol.

i ordered a hypertech tuner (not that great i know) but i dont think im up for the lt1 edit or anything too complicated just yet.

oh yeah, what kills me is my 60ft times, on drag radials i couldnt do better than i was doing on the damn runflat street radials i was on a week beforehand!:( Yes the drag radials were brand new ,that could have something to do with this i guess.

were u driving through the waterbox? how long was ur burnout? did u just stomp it, or roll into it?
i am going to assume u just floored it out of the hole. next time get about 10 ft out and lay into it. all the while slowly getting into it.
the weather u were in looks like good racing good conditions.

also, ur times are comparable to mine stock. personally i would try and sell or return the hypercrap and go with one of the board members here. madz28 or pcmforless. u will get more power for your money. and quite a bit cheaper.

were u driving through the waterbox? how long was ur burnout? did u just stomp it, or roll into it?

i burnt out in the waterbox and out of it and a combination of the two and nothing seemed to work, honestly i have heard these tires dont hook so well when new and mine were NEW i mean i drove straight from the tire dealer to the dragway lol.

i am going to assume u just floored it out of the hole. next time get about 10 ft out and lay into it. all the while slowly getting into it.

tried both

the weather u were in looks like good racing good conditions.

yeah the cooler weather was good for the engine but not so good for the drag radials or a full slick for that matter.

also, ur times are comparable to mine stock. personally i would try and sell or return the hypercrap and go with one of the board members here. madz28 or pcmforless. u will get more power for your money. and quite a bit cheaper.

i dont think i will find a mail order tune cheaper than what i paid for the hypertech, and although im sure i would gain more overall power from the two above mentioned companies...i just need the hypertech for other things you can do with it (speedo correction etc.) but in the future i will be looking to them when get into real mods:bow:
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