I finally was able to take my 01 Z to the track this weekend to see what it'd push, and unfortunately I had it sitting outta town at my parents for a month up for sale and had to have a friend drive it down (about a 160 mile drive).. He had to refuel the car and mistakenly put 87 instead of 91 and by the time we were at the track there was no way we could waste enough gas to put 91 in before the track closed so I ran it with 87. The car is COMPLETELY stock.. absolutely NO modifications:

310hp LS1
A4 transmission
2.73 rear end
Street tires

Basically not setup at all for the strip.. I took 5 passes down the strip alone(no opponent) except for the 4th run where the track officials setup the run with a late 60's Cuda that was built for drag. All 5 passes had the car loaded with two passengers (driver + passenger), total weight added: 300# max. It was pretty humid.. about 80 degrees and the elevation is... 8167 I believe. Let's say I wasnt expecting really impressive times but then again, ive never took a car down the drag strip so... here's the times:

1/4 (1/8)
1st Pass: 14.98@91.48 (9.85@76.77)
2nd Pass: 14.54@99.75 (9.54@77.61)
3rd Pass: 14.46@100.47 (9.49@77.07)
4th Pass: 14.33@101.09 (9.39@77.31)- OP14.06@98.48 (9.07@79.77)
5th Pass: 14.43@99.80 (9.44@77.88)

Anyways.. The first run kinda sucked because I had my friend driving since he was really itching to take it out there and lets say he didnt feel like doin much of a burn out in the pre-stage so the car didnt launch too good. He also mis-judged where the end of the track was so he slowed down just before the end. The other runs the tires actually were pretty sticky, I didnt get any slip on the rest of the launches, and yeah... the Cuda wasnt pushin it too hard, we stayed about a half car length behind him the whole way. I think the car did pretty well considering the circumstances.. what do you think?

 

Couple of notes...

1. You need to post up 60' time. The 60' time will tell lot about a driver and a car.

2. With street radials, you don't need much of a burnout, just enough to clean the tires.

With that high elevation (8,167 ft...yikes) and all the variables you've mentioned , I think your time pretty fair to good.

 

Yeah, let's see the full slip from your fourth pass.

Burnouts are highly optional on street tires. If you do one at all, keep it under half a second. If you think your tires are clean (no sand or gravel), it's not necessary at all.

That sucks that you had to run on 87.

 

The elevation is your biggest problem that I can see.

 

87 shouldnt hurt ya too much maby a .1 if it even pinged. Which i doubt it did, maby after the first few it heated up enough to where it started detonating and pulled timing.

 

not to sure man.. my buddies z when we had 87(was a lt1) which was stupid octane for our cars... ran a 14.9 all day... and he was heavily modded.. but then we found out he had valve problems

 

Ehh, between the regular gas and the crazy elevation, and no track experience, I would say its not that bad.

 

i second that ^^^

 

Where are you located that is really high up there...not to shabby considering all your handicaps.

 

I just can't believe those gears were ever offered in a performance car. What was GM thinking???

 

Better MPG