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Old 11-02-2005, 03:17 PM
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yeah, tnt from 12:00noon to 9:00pm on friday
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"STREET LEGAL DRAGS" GRUDGE RACING EACH FRIDAY EXCEPT 4- 8, 4-15, and 10-21 FROM 7 TO 11 PM WITH GATE OPENING AT 6 PM FROM MARCH 4 TO NOVEMBER 18. "
is there something im missing here? do you have a link i can look at? i'm trying to find the exact schedule
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okay EGR valve=gone, maf screen is next , the air dam is now being used as air induction , currently disabling the tb coolant sensors, am i gonna fail emissions this year or what
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no maf removal , found a nice little article on how many ppl have gotten trouble codes from this , can anyone suggest anything else? i am willing to consider almost anything at this point
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Originally Posted by paper doll
no maf removal , found a nice little article on how many ppl have gotten trouble codes from this , can anyone suggest anything else? i am willing to consider almost anything at this point
If you ran 13.1 on bald street tires.....with the Drag radials, you should be around 12.7-12.9...

Heat them up good.....Go to the line....hold the break with your left foot...as hard as you can...mash the gas just enough to get your rpms to around 12-1500....called "foot braking" ......just to the point of spinning your tires.

shazam. 12s.
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Heat your nitto's up real good. Foot brake the car to 900 rpm, and roll into it the rest of the way, this will help "flash" the stock converter a little, will hit the tires a little harder, and get you a little better 60' time.

Pull the passenger and rear seats. Also remove the front sway bar, it will remove some weight from the front, and help for better weight transfer and a better 60'.
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i just ran the sway bar idea by johnny , i'm always down with trying anything mods out, but he gets really nervous and rejects anything first , so he just walked thro the shop mummering, how well would taking that off help? would it cause any kinds of disadvantages?
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ang i really appreciate the help guys, these responses are such a big help, i know that as is it'll pull 12s with the tires, but i really need to secure it to make our mark for the season so we can get down to bussiness next season, i dont know what i would do without all of your help , (and before you call me gay , i know im being queer, i am just really apprecaiting all this help)
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I only had the front sway bar on my WS6 for about a month. It's wouldn't handle quite as well without it, but all i really cared about was the straight line. taking the sway bar off only takes 15 minutes, well worth the time.
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about how much does that sway bar weight anyways? just outta curiousity?
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It's really not about a weight savings. It helps the front rise and transferring weight to the rear on launch. I drive my car every day without it and as long as you don't charge into corners at 60mph, you won't have a problem. I don't even remember how the car felt before I took it off now. I guess I'm used to it now.

I didn't have any trouble codes when I took my maf screen out.
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Originally Posted by paper doll
you mean he took off the induction system under the hood (i.e. poped out plastic filter on hood) or took out the grille inserts for the hood? so i guess the tires are as much of a help as everyone says , next time tho , tell him to drop it to 18 psi and go down form there. is it a m6?
Grill inserts, thats the word i was looking for, yup its an m6
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BTW, here are my current times, if anyone has any suggestions with the shift points (go +2 in 1st what have you)

r/t .174

60' 1.997

330 5.572

1/8 8.479

mph 85.68

1000 11.00

1/4 13.13

mph 105.61
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i am about to go pick up nitto555r's , they got in a day early , i am sooo relieved , now i can pracitce (if the LPD allows me time) with the new tires and helmet . i absolutly bombed with the helmet, wasent used to the motorcycle style ones , almost cried
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Originally Posted by bbqz28
It's really not about a weight savings. It helps the front rise and transferring weight to the rear on launch. I drive my car every day without it and as long as you don't charge into corners at 60mph, you won't have a problem. I don't even remember how the car felt before I took it off now. I guess I'm used to it now.

I didn't have any trouble codes when I took my maf screen out.

did it seem worth taking the screen off once it was off?, i had a hard time trying to get it off and as i was, we pulled up an article on the maf screen removal , and how many ppl have screwed up their sensors doing it so i pussed out , but its still an option , i just dont know how to get i toff, someone said it was supposed to wiggle off , but we were sitting there with a phillips head hitting it with a hammer (on the outter rim)
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I took the maf off and a friend of mine grabbed it, took a screwdriver and it popped right out. He did make sure to be careful not to hit any of the sensor wires though. It didn't take 5 seconds to get it out. Well, as far as noticing anything, I put my lid on at the same time so I noticed a difference. Once you get it out you'll see that removing it will help. It's about a half inch thick and looks like honeycomb.

Wow your times are almost exactly what I run. Here's my best run from last friday.

r/t - .236
60' - 1.995
330 - 5.570
1/8 - 8.479
mph - 85.11
1000 -10.980
1/4 - 13.106
mph - 106.78

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BTW, here are my current times, if anyone has any suggestions with the shift points (go +2 in 1st what have you)

r/t .174
60' 1.997
330 5.572
1/8 8.479
mph 85.68
1000 11.00
1/4 13.13
mph 105.61
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okay last night of long sleepless car working on stuff... very tired, got the new tires on , learned my first lesson on turing sharp at 60mph , thats dont ever do it again , i almost had a no second car there for a minute (i slipped for a min but i have been listening to you guys) , okay so i guess we are taking off the front sway bar, anything else ? still not certain on the MAF screen , but still considering any options at this point, do you think the extra weight from the tires needs to be compensated else where? i am so ready to do this, i have lost my excitment for it , i just want to do it (make 12) and go to sleep friday night and end the season on that, its also gonna be like 10*s hotter friday , will that really push me that much futher form the mark?
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pull your spare tire and jack as well that should drop some weight as well
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^ did that , thanks tho , i thought of it right before our first run last friday, glad i did... oh and one thing (on a seperate note) we did do , that we cant do again is took out the air filter, that cant happen now cos of the air dam thing....but it only helped us by like .03 secs , so i am not exactly concerned
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okay i have one more day , i am gonna go saturday so i can change the spark plugs , and wires and such , and take off the sway bar, i just want to go to sleep! this is been the week of mods, we've done more in the past few days than we have this whole year



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