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Old 08-13-2007, 07:46 PM
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I hate asking "how fast would I be in the 1/4?", but I'm married, so it's damn near impossible for me to spend $15 and 3 hours on a friday going to a TNT session and night doing something that I want to do.

My car is a 1994 M6 camaro with 70K miles. It has a K&N intake with a moroso polished elbow, a flowmaster catback, and 3.73 rear gears. I have a set of MT drag radials, but I would still probably only cut a 2.0 60'. I live pretty close to sea level.

Any speculation? I would love to run a 13.99, but the car just seems to fall on it's face at 5000rpm.
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i have a auto 94 with 2.73's and i ran whats in my sig id say ud prob be close to what i have or better cuz i have headers and you have 3.73's
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You're doing something wrong if the best 60 you can get with MT radials is 2.0.

If you can hook there's no reason you shouldn't be in the 13s if the car is running well.
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I know some bolt on 3.73 LT1s running in the area of 13.6s..with a sub 2.0 60 foot too you might be suprised.
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Originally Posted by infinitebird
You're doing something wrong if the best 60 you can get with MT radials is 2.0.

If you can hook there's no reason you shouldn't be in the 13s if the car is running well.
I've got 5 years behind the wheel of my turbo v6. It had NO TORQUE below 4000rpm. I could never do better than 1.9x with it. Since I'm not used to this car, I don't imagine I'll do any better than 2.0 for my first few runs. I'm a newb to v8 torque.
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You should run mid 13's with what youve got.
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Originally Posted by LT Malice
I've got 5 years behind the wheel of my turbo v6. It had NO TORQUE below 4000rpm. I could never do better than 1.9x with it. Since I'm not used to this car, I don't imagine I'll do any better than 2.0 for my first few runs. I'm a newb to v8 torque.
yeah, well that explains your line of thinking then.

fyi you should be able to cut 1.7x-1.8x pretty easily with the MT tires and a little practice.

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Mid 13s in good air is very doable with that set up on a 2.0



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