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Got some new times (happy but also kinda bummed)

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Old 08-02-2002, 01:15 PM
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I don't get to the track very often, in fact this is only the 3rd time I've gone. Last summer when I went my best was a 14.7 and I spent most of the night in the 15's. Came to find out that my fuel pump was on its way out and only pushing roughly 12psi. I was excited to go back when the car was running right and see what it was capable of, plus I got some new mods. Temp. was high 90's low 100's and it was kinda muggy because a T-storm was coming in but here are some of my times.

My best:
60ft: 2.234
ET: 14.004
mph:101.842

60ft: 2.342
et: 14.073
mph: 102.343

60ft: 2.317
et: 14.099
mph: 102.074

I really wanted a 13 but my 60 ft. time are terrible. I'm getting a set of Nitto's to help that. PLus my scanmaster was picking up 10-11 degrees of retard on every run. I watched some other stuff run and I started to feel better about not getting my 13. There was a LS1 that ran 2 high 13's but was in the 14's at about 100 mph all night. In fact my 14.099 above was against him, he ran a 14.02 at 100mph. Then there was a 3rd gen with a healthy cam and nitrous that was running 13.5's at 105mph, lastly there was a LT1 with a 150 shot and I believe his best on the night was a 13.4. Sorry this got kinda long, but I think in cooler weather with the Nitto's I should be good for low to mid 13's. Mods are in my sig.

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Old 08-02-2002, 01:18 PM
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Opps! forgot to post the sig. I know my sig is long but I only ever post it when it pertains to something!

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Old 08-02-2002, 01:49 PM
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Elevation, the ET/MPH killer.

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Old 08-02-2002, 01:54 PM
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I'm not sure what the elevation is, but it was at SpeedWorld for you local guys. That damn place is halfway to Wickenburg, I know the elevation is rather high. I was happy with my mph, especially since it was better than the modded LS1 that was running.
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Old 08-02-2002, 02:17 PM
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Got another question. What should my ET be at 102 mph? I started looking at the times in peoples sigs and I'm seeing a few with better ET's but less mph.
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Speedworld is ~ 1700 ft. Your times don't look too far off given the weather conditions. I'm trapping 107 in this heat...should be ~ 109-110 in better weather. Keep practicing and those short times will improve.

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Ouch, you should be good for 13.6-13.7's or so with that mph. Something musta been wrong with that other LT1 . Although i am still stuck in the 13's lol. Your times aren't that bad, you probably just need to work on driving. Are you going to the car show tonight?

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<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by Kreinmc:
Ouch, you should be good for 13.6-13.7's or so with that mph. Something musta been wrong with that other LT1 . Although i am still stuck in the 13's lol. Your times aren't that bad, you probably just need to work on driving. Are you going to the car show tonight?

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I'm going to try and make it to the car show. My girlfriend has been out of town all week and she comes back today, so I don't know if she'll let me go, we shall see. I just need to get my 60 time down, hopefully some nitto's on my stock wheels will do the trick. Kinda worried about the rear end though.
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Yeah aaron, the track prep seemed horrible, here was my best run wednesday night:
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60ft: 2.374
1/4: 14.033
MPH: 102.665

I was happy with the mph, hopefully with the bfg drag radials i can pull some 2.0's. At least we were killing that modded cobra
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