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Old 06-05-2010, 06:51 PM
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Finally went and got a time yesterday. It was about 95 degrees out at 90% humidity. I wasn't able to launch for ****. My car is a 2001 M6 Trans Am with longtubes, ory, 3 inch exhaust, slp lid, koni 4/3s, strano springs, and a shitty tune. Best time was as follows

60 ft-------- 2.2502
330ft------- 5.8735
1/8 et------ 8.7996
1/8 mph--- 84.41
1000 et---- 11.2922
1000 mph- 98.04
1/4 et------ 13.2682
1/4 mph--- 105.29

This was one of my lowest traps. I was trapping 107-108 all day. Do these times seem right??
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For the 60' and weather, yes. What exactly was the DA?
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Sorry for being noobish, but what does DA stand for?
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Originally Posted by Hashish
Sorry for being noobish, but what does DA stand for?
Density Altitude.

http://www.dragtimes.com/da-density-...e=Calculate+DA
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considering the weather you had and the 60s the car should run some 12.70s or so with good weather and some 1.9 60s... which is pretty close.... get it to hook up and you should be able to get some 1.8s and maybe some way better times.
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DA was 3687 at 89% I did the calculation and the corrected numbers seemed much better. lol
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Originally Posted by Hashish
DA was 3687 at 89% I did the calculation and the corrected numbers seemed much better. lol
Horrible DA... Yes, I would say you were much more pleased with the corrected times, just don't forget you can't claim corrected times. Until it is on a timeslip, you have not ran the time.

Just wondering, what was the corrected slip?
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D/A and 60' get that 60' down and you'r 1/4 will drop, what tires are you running?
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Originally Posted by lemons12

Just wondering, what was the corrected slip?
Looks like 12.6 @110mph according to dragtimes

Thats pretty good considering the weather
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FASTEDDIE Z said it. I was running 315 Nitto NT555's. I was amazed at how quickly they got greasy.
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Originally Posted by FASTEDDIE Z
Looks like 12.6 @110mph according to dragtimes

Thats pretty good considering the weather
12.6@110 is taking the heat/elevation/etc out of he picture. It shows what the car would have done at 0DA. That is a very good time, especially for the 60'.

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FASTEDDIE Z said it. I was running 315 Nitto NT555's. I was amazed at how quickly they got greasy.
Those suck the big *****.. If you are on a budget get some stock 16" inch rims for cheap and throw a set of ET radials or full slicks on it.
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Yeah I found that out the hard way. No radials or slicks for me yet, I don't want to have to sweep whats left of the 10 bolt off of the starting line. Just wanted to make sure that given better conditions I would have been cutting a better time. Thanks everyone.




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