Today I took my car down the quartermile for the first time. Its a '95 Z28, mods include a TB Bypass, Moroso CAI, Mac Mids and a Magnaflow muffler. I ran on street tires, and didnt bother to remove anything. (5lb tool box, spare, jack or my sub). I also had about a half tank of gas in the car. Today's temperatuer was 69 degrees. (hope that covers all teh details)

My best run of teh day went liek this:
60' - 2.1542
1/8 et - 8.8732
1/8 mph - 80.94
1/4 et - 13.6874
1/4 mph - 102.51

It seemed like a pretty good improvement to my first time ever down a strip. Back when the only thing the car had was flowmaster muffler it ran a 9.3 1/8th mile at 77mph on a 2.3 60'

But yeah, how did I do? I dont know too much about reading a time slip so any advice woudl be helpful. I plan to go back in a week or 2 with some cooler weather and weight reduction and try again.

 

Good runs man! Sounds about right. The 60' means you need to hook/launch better. My car doesn't even spin on the street if I leave off idle, but there's no way in hell I'd catch on a track.........my STOCK 78 TA with 180 hp went sideways because I didn't burn out, and it never lost traction on the street, even after the motor build. I wish tracks had traction equal to the street. Either way, sounds like decent runs man!

 

Looks good Steve!!

 

The times seem decent, now go lose some weight Work on getting those 60' times down.

 

Thanks for the replies. What should I be targeting for a good 60' time on street tires with a 6 speed?

 

You should be targeting high 1.8's with a set od drag radials and some normal track prep. With street tires, typically anything in the high 1.9 to low 2.0 range is generally decent, however the track needs to be well prepped. On most traditional street nights the starting line gets ripped up pretty quickly.

 

Good times but take out the tool box....

 

I second what Ted said. A little trick on "test-n-tune" nights is to line up directly behind a race car (with huge slicks) in the staging lanes. Watch close when he stages and try to run directly in the "groove" he has created with those big, sticky tires. Also, even though it costs more and you may not get as many runs, go on a "race" night when they are much more likely to spend a few bucks on traction compound. Be aware though that when a street car actaully hooks, parts may break.

Rich