John B

iTrader: (10)

Even though I had almost a full tank of gas (instead of my race trim 1/4 tank) I decided to go to the track tonight anyway at the last minute.

Results with pure street tires:
60' - 1.696
330' - 5.290
1/8 - 8.074
MPH - 90.06
1000 - 10.449
1/4 - 12.421
MPH - 114.93

Results with Hoosier QTP DOT street tires:
60' - 1.769
330' - 5.004
1/8 - 7.714
MPH - 91.59
1000 - 10.062
1/4 - 12.035
MPH - 114.86

Now I wish I had about 75#'s less of fuel!!! Oh well. The only disappointing thing was that for some reason I was seeing knock retard (about 3° avg) while recording the runs using ATAP which indicated that I was only getting 23° of engine timing which was killing some of the power.

The other odd thing was that my daily driver tires actually gave me a better 60' time launching at ~1500 RPM but broke loose at the 100' mark costing me ET where as the Hoosier's spun a bit off the line (launching at ~5800-6000 RPM) but really hooked once out of the box.

A bit more practice with the Hoosier's and resolving the knock retard should have me at my goal of getting kicked out of the track for running 11's with no roll bar

LEO

iTrader: (3)

Congrats, you've got a strong running car - man but that sure is close to an 11! You'll probably get that 11 the next time you go out to the track.

unit213

How is the hell did you cut a 1.69 sixty on street tires? You'll hit 11.8's on a 1/4 tank of gas with some traction from your QTP's out of the hole.

John B

iTrader: (10)

Before the launch I heated them up a bit by power braking without going in the water while in 2nd gear and just let off the brake until the tires squealed like a **** and I could tell that they were sticky. I launched at ~1500 RPM (almost like a stoplight takeoff just chirping the tires) and just laid into the throttle so that it wasn't fully floored until I was about 30' out of the hole. Unfortunately when I was about 100' out the tires broke loose and I had to short shift to 2nd gear but still managed a good run.

unit213

I can follow your technique but I can't believe that a street radial would grab that well. Nice work!

DailyAluminumBlock

Not bad, that is one nasty Monte you got there.

akaceril

SOOOO close. good runs John. Awesome 60'

Bad02WS6

I can see it now......11.87 @ 116.2mph

"Track Rep"
Hey!!! Your out of here buddy!!!!!
You can't run 11's in a street car!!! You got to have a race car for that!!!!

"John"

"happy as hell, he's getting kicked out!!"

Yea!!