The lil old bolt on LT1

blew away my goal for the year last night at the first trip to the track...

Goals for the end of this season were:

1. 3300lbs raceweight (with me in it)
2. 12.99 et
3. a 1.75 60ft

first pass of the year right out of the gate i ran a 12.77 @ 105mph ran 6 runs and my best was 12.73 @106mph

the weather was ok but had a lot of moisture in the air... i still got prostars to throw on and a aluminum driveshaft

maybe a 12.5 by the end of the year? who knows this is insane!

blew away my goal for the year last night at the first trip to the track...

Goals for the end of this season were:

1. 3300lbs raceweight (with me in it)
2. 12.99 et
3. a 1.75 60ft

first pass of the year right out of the gate i ran a 12.77 @ 105mph ran 6 runs and my best was 12.73 @106mph

the weather was ok but had a lot of moisture in the air... i still got prostars to throw on and a aluminum driveshaft

maybe a 12.5 by the end of the year? who knows this is insane!


Congratulations thats pretty good. I remember how happy I was when I reached my first goal getting in the 13's lol. Then I was like might as well try for 12's and thats it no more. Well after some modding got in the 12's and was thrilled well now I want high 10's i figured I'd skip 11's. It wont be until next yr though currently deployed but at least it gives me a chance to save up for it. I want to do it on completely stock long block with nitrous. I guess we shall see what happens. Good job on your goal though!!!!

Way to go Tony. Nice when the money spent pays off, isn't it.

nice

did you do this with no stall?
what was your best 60' time?
what size tires and what kind?
sorry for all the questions

that thing is strolling good job

Way to go Tony. Nice when the money spent pays off, isn't it.

hell yes it is ;)

nice

did you do this with no stall?
what was your best 60' time?
what size tires and what kind?
sorry for all the questions

that thing is strolling good job

SS3600 stall

60ft on the 12.73 pass was a 1.76 bt i did hit a 1.75 first pass out of the gate

255/50/16 et street radials


im about to buy some 275/50/15 hoosier drag radials tho for the prostars sitting in the garage :)
oh yea and did i mention i still got a ls1 driveshaft to install? hehehe ;)

thx guys for all the props ihope u all have great years

Good job, now get busy shedding some more weight!

Good job, now get busy shedding some more weight!

thats this winter's project :D

pick up a ewp, 1.6rrs, 52mm tb, and go for bottom 12's.

pick up a ewp, 1.6rrs, 52mm tb, and go for bottom 12's.

all in time my good sir. im broke after this year's mods lol

Is there any proven gain by switching to an electric water pump? If so I'm getting off my wallet!

Is there any proven gain by switching to an electric water pump? If so I'm getting off my wallet!

Yep. about a tenth and 1mph.

Sorry for the hi-jack but I never thought there was that much there. I'll take that tenth...

Kinda funny you brought that up Tom, I was wondering the same thing. :)

I've had a whole slew of fbodies, and have yet to purchase an EWP. Definitely food for thought.

BTW, good job getting in the 12's already, you beat me to it! :cool:

Tony, It's all in the transmission:D See, we don't even get any credit in your sig.???:(

Frank
CPT

I was just up at NED tonight, found out I'm probably gonna need a new rear diff soon.
Still hittin 14.2's at 98mph in my stock A4

Great runs, makes me want to try and improve on my bolt on times this winter!

What did you do to get to 3300 lbs w/driver? I am weighing my car after work today and pretty sure I am not going to reach those numbers. Back in late 2000 I weighed my car and it was 3480 without me and a 1/2 tank of gas. Since then I have deleted the A/C, front sway bar, spare tire, and jack as well as replaced the stock wheels with Bogart D-10's. However I added weight with a Strange 12 bolt and a Spohn steel DS. Since the car is starting to become more of a weekend warrior I don't think I'll miss anything too bad if I remove it. So what other things have you replaced/removed?

Nice times BTW!

thx again guys... i am very happy with how the car is running :) and frank i will def give credit in my sig... check out my sig on ls1tech.com ur in there :)

the car weighed in at 3356lbs with me in it.... i have stripped the trunk bare (kept rear speaker) removed rear seats and belts (kept carpet), have prostar skinnies, !swaybar, !cruise, and i have the rksports sportsback.... a/c, egr, air are all still int he car, but will be coming out this winter :)

the car is consistant as hell also, which is good for my bracket racing series at NED

much thx to Frank Cahill at CPT Transmissions, Yank Converters, John P. (1slowformula), Shon Herron of Herron Performance..... and all my buddies who helped me out with the car over the few years i've had her.... 11.80 is in my sights :)

Where did you weigh your car? Do you have cloth seats? How much of a difference did that RK sportsback make? I weighed my car and it still topped in at 3400 even without me in it. It's a little frustrating to see cars like yours that aren't that much different in weight saving mods and still be 300 lbs less. lol. Even if I ripped out all of the trunk trim and the rear seats that can't be but 40-50 lbs max. I'm gonna start looking around under the seats for some lead deposits or something. lol.

if im not mistaken firehawks are a lil heavier then camaros from the factory... so ur already starting behind lol... i just take every lil thing i can out that i can do without... stripped trunk, quarter tank of gas, mats out, rear seats, etc etc.... i honestly have no idea how much the sportsback helps but it always seems like im lighter then everyone else and the sportsback is the only real different thing my car has then everyone else...

i dn what to say man... just loose as much things as u can personally do without in the car

I'm not too stressed about it. I'm actually going to the track tonight so I need to do a little thrashing when I get home from work to remove a couple of more items. I weighed almost 100 lbs less since the last time so I will be interested to see how the car does. Thanks for the info.

Good luck tonight! as long as ur safe, the car dosent break, and u have fun.... its always a good night at the track :)

Good luck tonight! as long as ur safe, the car dosent break, and u have fun.... its always a good night at the track :)
Ditto on all the above. Good luck bro!

yes ..awesome I recall working hard to get my butt a sub 8 in the 8th. I hit a 8:02 and later that night a 8:03. Buddies were all set to yank seats and stuff to get me my 7 second time. I left it as it was came back a week later ran a 7:86 with my new qtp cutout. I was so freaked out i didn't believe it was my time, or the clocks were wrong. Back it up with a hot lapped 7.9. Damn humid hell weather here ...gotta wait til fall again. Not gonna stand outside waiting to race in 90 plus heat with high 80% humidity