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Old Sep 3, 2019 | 03:52 PM
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Anyone in here mess with a Dragy performance meter? It's pretty accurate as far as ETs and MPH are concerned. I just bought one to play with and it's pretty badass so far.

My setup is: SBE 5.3, 243 heads, LS9 gaskets, FI Billet s476, 25psi, ~1020whp.

I had a passenger and started right at 60. DA was 3200.

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Sorry I can’t help but that looked like a blast haha
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Sorry I can’t help but that looked like a blast haha
Lol, yeah, it's fun.
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Old Sep 3, 2019 | 04:09 PM
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Originally Posted by jayyyw
Anyone in here mess with a Dragy performance meter? It's pretty accurate as far as ETs and MPH are concerned. I just bought one to play with and it's pretty badass so far.

My setup is: SBE 5.3, 243 heads, LS9 gaskets, FI Billet s476, 25psi, ~1020whp.

I had a passenger and started right at 60. DA was 3200.

https://youtu.be/ePySu9QTrtg
I was definitely thinking about getting one. Are you able to define what speed range you want to measure? As in, could you pick a speed range that covers a single gear where you accelerate through a part of the power band you are interested in, and pull out the data for that speed range?
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Old Sep 3, 2019 | 04:19 PM
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I was definitely thinking about getting one. Are you able to define what speed range you want to measure? As in, could you pick a speed range that covers a single gear where you accelerate through a part of the power band you are interested in, and pull out the data for that speed range?
It has the normal ranges and then you can set custom ranges that you want. AFAIK, it won't record the custom ranges but it will populate a chart of it.
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Thanks!
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Draggy thread
https://ls1tech.com/forums/street-ra...pulls-2-a.html
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Old Sep 3, 2019 | 06:20 PM
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Sorry, I don't venture much passed this sub-forum.
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Glad to see others using it. Great tool if you are trying to get the car to work on the street. And it is alot of fun

That car is working well to get into the 4s on the manual
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Never heard of this thing until this thread. Ordered one the other day.
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Old Sep 5, 2019 | 05:24 PM
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Originally Posted by rotary1307cc
Glad to see others using it. Great tool if you are trying to get the car to work on the street. And it is alot of fun

That car is working well to get into the 4s on the manual
Yeah, i've already learned a lot by using it.

Thanks. I need to get more boost into it, faster in 2nd gear.
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Yeah it's tough to get a high power rwd car down the legit street(no burnout and no rubber down)

That box is a big humbler

Quite a few of us up here have been using he draggy and vbox (the OG box that set the standard)

Hand full of high power sorted rwd cars running into the 3s here. Mine does 3.8-3.9 like clockwork, been 3.6 on its best but that is hit and miss trying to do that

Most on nitto up here now

My dog loves it lol

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Originally Posted by rotary1307cc
Yeah it's tough to get a high power rwd car down the legit street(no burnout and no rubber down)

That box is a big humbler

Quite a few of us up here have been using he draggy and vbox (the OG box that set the standard)

Hand full of high power sorted rwd cars running into the 3s here. Mine does 3.8-3.9 like clockwork, been 3.6 on its best but that is hit and miss trying to do that

Most on nitto up here now

My dog loves it lol

https://youtu.be/6j6CB8fCURk
Dog’s been faster than most on here!
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Old Sep 8, 2019 | 10:32 AM
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Originally Posted by rotary1307cc
Yeah it's tough to get a high power rwd car down the legit street(no burnout and no rubber down)

That box is a big humbler

Quite a few of us up here have been using he draggy and vbox (the OG box that set the standard)

Hand full of high power sorted rwd cars running into the 3s here. Mine does 3.8-3.9 like clockwork, been 3.6 on its best but that is hit and miss trying to do that

Most on nitto up here now

My dog loves it lol

https://youtu.be/6j6CB8fCURk
Tell me about it. I tried 5-6 settings and multiple pulls the other night and it would just spin all of second gear. Best of the night was still a 4.8 spinning and short shifting into 3rd.

Need to do a burn out to clean up the tires and try again.
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Tell me about it. I tried 5-6 settings and multiple pulls the other night and it would just spin all of second gear. Best of the night was still a 4.8 spinning and short shifting into 3rd.

Need to do a burn out to clean up the tires and try again.
4.8 on a 60-130 rip?
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Originally Posted by jayyyw
Anyone in here mess with a Dragy performance meter? It's pretty accurate as far as ETs and MPH are concerned. I just bought one to play with and it's pretty badass so far.

My setup is: SBE 5.3, 243 heads, LS9 gaskets, FI Billet s476, 25psi, ~1020whp.

I had a passenger and started right at 60. DA was 3200.

https://youtu.be/ePySu9QTrtg
Damn that looks like some serious fun. What fuel are you running with that setup?
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Old Sep 8, 2019 | 06:25 PM
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Originally Posted by 3 window
4.8 on a 60-130 rip?
yup. spinning all of second gear.
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Old Sep 8, 2019 | 06:25 PM
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Originally Posted by lemans1
Damn that looks like some serious fun. What fuel are you running with that setup?
Pump e85
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Old Sep 8, 2019 | 10:18 PM
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That machine that you were piloting, looks to be a formidable opponent.
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