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Old Mar 8, 2003 | 10:42 PM
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tonight i ran a 11.21 at 123 with a 1.56 60'. my mods are all bolt on (slp headers), cartek 224/228 584/588 @ 113, tea stage two heads, 12 bolt with 4:30 (which is now howling like a pack of wovles hopefully Billingsley will take care of me), 28 inch et drags and a 100 shot wet. i only dynoed 390rwhp 390rwt N/A through a ten bolt with 3:42. the car was tuned by AMS. what the hell is wrong? <img border="0" alt="[bang head]" title="" src="graemlins/gr_banghead.gif" /> <img border="0" alt="[bang head]" title="" src="graemlins/gr_banghead.gif" /> <img border="0" alt="[bang head]" title="" src="graemlins/gr_banghead.gif" /> <img border="0" alt="[bang head]" title="" src="graemlins/gr_banghead.gif" />
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Old Mar 8, 2003 | 10:48 PM
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Cool down my friend. <img border="0" title="" alt="[Wink]" src="gr_images/icons/wink.gif" />

Give us more info about you Hot Rod. <img border="0" title="" alt="[Cool]" src="gr_images/icons/cool.gif" />

What are your 60fts?

What rpm are you launching at?

Remember a bad day drag racing is better than a good day working.

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Old Mar 8, 2003 | 10:51 PM
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she is an 01 ws6. she is a little on the heavy side since it has a system in it but by no means is nothing crazy. my 60' was a 1.56. i also have a spec III carbon cluth.
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Old Mar 9, 2003 | 12:03 AM
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Actually, that looks like a pretty damn good ET/MPH to me... Especially if your car is a little on the heavy side, as you mentioned...
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Old Mar 9, 2003 | 12:20 AM
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were you spraying on those runs though?? If they are NA, those numbers are awesome for a heavy car! Anything in the 10.9-11.5 range is good for stage 2 heads/cam
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Old Mar 9, 2003 | 02:53 AM
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al, i would seriously look into a different PROVEN camshaft....those LG packages are kicking some serious *** right now! GTP heads/Pig cam, MTI heads/X1 cam, Thunder heads and cam are all PROVEN packages that make hella good numbers...my opinion is that it is the heads and cam that are slowing you down...N/A you should be seeing high 10.9-11.3 and then solid 10's on bottle, like we talked about today. Anyway, i'll have those vids along with alan's vid's ripped late tonight, i'll see if i can get matt to host em...
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Old Mar 9, 2003 | 09:28 AM
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i was hitting the juice on that run. my bottle was full and it never dropped below 950psi. i think my heads are fine. on a 600 lift they flowed 304 intake and 260 exhaust. any other sudjestions would be greatly apriciated. i am for sure changing my headers to some thunder racing 1 3/4. would you think the 1 7/8 are too much? PLEASE HELP! <img border="0" title="" alt="[Frown]" src="gr_sad.gif" />
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Old Mar 9, 2003 | 05:41 PM
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Old Mar 10, 2003 | 07:53 AM
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if you guys don't help me i am going to go buy a supra. j/k
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Old Mar 10, 2003 | 09:09 AM
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Did you tune with the spray on the dyno?
What fuel system are you running? What is your AF and timing on spray?

do you have an NA tune and a nitrous tune?
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Old Mar 10, 2003 | 09:54 AM
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ams did tune it n/a and on spray. i am not sure what the a/f was.
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