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Old 02-27-2008, 12:54 AM
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went to the track with my new set up, car is a a4 with a tight 3500 stall and 3.73 gear, car makes 405rwhp cam is a 234 230 .602 .598 on a 116lsa this is a full wieght ws6 kind of disapointed when the best the car could 60' is a 1.78 on a m/t drag radial, tryed many differant ways to lanch the car but all 60 were 1.78-1.85 shouldn't it be like a 1.60???
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What are your suspension mods?
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Relocation Brakets, Torque Arm, Trailing Arms, Subframe Connectors
Old 02-27-2008, 10:02 AM
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sounds like the converter isnt right. what brand?
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Converter is too tight probably. Try leaving right off idle, stab the gas as hard as you can to get it to flash as hard as possible, it may help.
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Is it spinning or bogging??

On N20 or on motor??

Seemingly its a cammed/n20 a4 car. The converter maybe tame for the track but if your do alot of street driving I bet it does have excellent street manners.
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Screw streetability, get a converter that makes the bitch run a # at the track
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It Left Ok, It Was Hooking The No2 Passes Burn The Tires, The Tires Are Older And Work Ok On Motor But Not N20

WHAT CONVERTER SHOULD I RUN??
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what kinda MT radial? On a 17 inch wheel? That will make a difference too.
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3500 is too tight, even on spray. I would get the SS4000 from Yank if you want a good converter that will take a decent shot and run well on motor.

What's your pinion angle at? What hole in the relocation brackets are the LCAs?
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Bottom Hole On The Relocation Brakets, 16" M/t...pinion Angle...good Question
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Having the arms in the lowest holes works o.k. for slower cars, but the faster you go you'll find that moving them up some will be beneficial.
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Originally Posted by orangefun
went to the track with my new set up, car is a a4 with a tight 3500 stall and 3.73 gear, car makes 405rwhp cam is a 234 230 .602 .598 on a 116lsa this is a full wieght ws6 kind of disapointed when the best the car could 60' is a 1.78 on a m/t drag radial, tryed many differant ways to lanch the car but all 60 were 1.78-1.85 shouldn't it be like a 1.60???
Have you tried playing around with your tire pressures? This makes a huge difference for me. An aftermarket torque arm would also help, but I've heard of some cutting 1.5x on the stock torque arm. How you leave is important also. I got my best 60' of 1.53 doing like what is said above, stabbing the torque converter instead of stalling it to its stall speed.
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I Have Tryed It All 18psi 15-12psi, Burning Out Differant Ways, I Have Also Tryed Foot Brakeing A Differant Rpms And Lanching From Idle
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you probably don't have enough air in the tires. Put them at 20 cold and try that, the larger sizes you can get away with low air pressure, but the low profile ones don't like that at all.
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Need like 18-20psi in those tires. Car is a pig at 3500, probably no weight transfer.
Get a set of Hals all around, set the rears at 6-8 and the fronts at "0", she'll 60' for ya.
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Originally Posted by JL ws-6
Having the arms in the lowest holes works o.k. for slower cars, but the faster you go you'll find that moving them up some will be beneficial.
I thought just the opposite ... prob explains why I can't 60' better. Mine LCA's are in the lowest relo bracket hole, as well. I need to pull my head out of my a** and not assume these kind of things. Car is in the shop having a Yank PT4000 installed, so, now the pinion angle/steepness prob will play an even more important role.

orangefun, good luck with your times. Please post back up what works for you.




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