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Old 03-31-2012, 01:00 PM
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So my setup is basically all boltons, 3200 circle d stall, comp cam 224, tune and my best time last night was a:

13.0 @ 107
2.0 60'

Shouldn't at least my trap speeds be faster with my setup?

Could my tune be off?

No one was hooking last night and my DRs are a little dry rotted so I had a hell of a time getting out of the hole.
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107 isn't a bad trap speed by any means. Do you happen to know what the DA was? Air and sea level can have a huge impact on trap speed and ET. Of course that wouldn't rule out your tune being off but there are so many factors that can skew trap speed its ridiculous. Were there any other F bodies at the track for you to compare with?
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My brothers 6-speed SS with long tubes, lid, tune and 4.10s was trapping 102
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hmmm that seems a little low to me, was this at gateway? i was trapping 104.5 with just longtubes, ory and tune, but my shift points were also messed up and i was losing some speed on shifts. what tires and what psi in them? who did the tune? can you post your 1/8th mile trap and speed? id also check your plug wires, air filter, etc.

EDIT: x2 on the da, what was it, or what date did you go and ill look it up for you if you went to gateway.

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I was at gateway, the tires are toyo tq DR's. I was running about 16 psi and was still spinning bad.

330' 5.565
1/8 8.452 @ 85.48
1000' 10.946 mph
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Gateway last night*
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Your trap speed seems on the low side. Mind you, my car is a 6 speed but when my car was bone stock I trapped 108. As for your spinning issue, you're tire pressure is too low with that tire. I gone a 1.71 on that exact tire with 22psi in the tires. You can't run a drag radial at low pressures like you can with a bias-ply tire.
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Ahhh...I'll try that next time. Thank you barney, do you have any other suspension work done?
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My car is a full suspension car on a 28x10.5 slick now. But when ran on radials I only had a torque arm and LCA's w/relocation brackets.
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I've got the relocated LCA's, I've been putting off doing the torque arm. Which one did (or do) you have?
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hmm again i have a 6 speed car but my bolt on car before cam was trapping 110 on street tires 4:10 in the back stupid 12.9 ive been stuck at as well. my cam should help that a bit tho



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