Not to be a dick, but if this is your 5th track car and you can drive, why are your 60ft. times so bad? Get some dedicated wheels and tires for the track.

 

Get yourself a set of 15 inch et streets or et drags and launch the hell out of it and run some low 12's

 

Those 315's are not very good at all without the addition of suspension. You need a good adjustable torque arm and some adjustable front shocks and swaybar removal up front, on top of what you have. That is what it took for my much lower hp car to get a good 60' out of them size tires. I can now 1.81 them tires

 

how is sway bar removal and front shocks gonna help... and i didnt mean drag car, more like car i run at the track

 

So you can transfer weight (front end lift), that car will go in the 11s if its set-up right, you can't add HP & exspect the stock suspention to work good, it just ain't gonna happen, work on the suspention, pinion angle is very important too, thats where the adj. TA come in handy, very very important on a stick car, LCA relo brackets also, they will help plant the tires harder in the lower holes, you also need GOOD tires (DRs), street tires are really for **** on a race track, the compound is different then a road surface, so you need a tire designed for a track surface (prep), you still have more MPH in it, because i'm sure you did alot of spinning, seeing you have an M6, with that cam & mods your running, i would have went with a 4.11 gear NA with a 26" tire, maybe even a 4.30, but the 3.73 will be perfect on the spray if you ever tread there, your 60ft. times are sooooooooooooooo horrible, you'll never get good ETs doing what your doing, so get to dialing in that suspention & some DRs (26"), then do your burn outs in 2nd. gear (NOT 1st.), then put the hammer down. Theres a hell of alot more in that car.

 

hell ya. i appreciate it... im going to look into the torque arms.... now i just need to find a good shop around dallas that is very knowledgable on the pinion angle stuff...

 

There are 4th gens on stock or very close to stock suspension running in the high 10's with 1.5 to 1.6 60 ft times.

 

But not on them 315/17 tires. A good 15" rim/tire combo will help also

 

You should have at least a 4:10 gear with 26" tires. That is one instance that is a mph/et killer. Don't worry about your susp. until you put either a ET Street or Drag (or equiv.) on and see what happens. If you can dead hook then there really is no need to upgrade susp. components. The most you should do at this point is a tunnel brace mounted torque arm. I would bet if you get the right tire/gear combination your times/et will improve drastically.

 

Maybe i jumped the gun on this one, should have frazed it diff., you don't need all the suspention stuff, these guys are right, just get the basics. But i will say pinion angle is important, i had mine at -3*

A good set of DRs, i ran a set of 255/50/16s on some salad shooters.
LCA Relocation brackets.
A good quality TA.
Driveshaft safety loop.

 

Oh, I drive this sig. pic car 1.5 hours to the track and 1.5 hours back. I can't afford a truck/trailer. The 'bird is not a drag car only, not at all.

 

A good set of 15" Mickeys with a soft sidewall will bite and not hop like those rock-hard Nittos. You should be happy with an out-of-the box 12.9 . Now the fun begins where you do some little changes to the setup and tweak it here and there. You'll get it down quite a bit for minimal bucks.

 

Stock springs with 2 coils cut off, stock shocks, stock torque arm, stock panhard bar. Only suspension mods I have is boxed LCAs. Stall and M/T drs is what took my 13.7 car to 12.99.

 

you cant drive lol

 

 

I was going to say that too, but figured i would be nice

 

nothing wrong with a 109mph trap on stock heads with a mailorder tune. a steeper gear would be more optimal for that cam.

what are you shifting at?

 

6500... im gonna look into some 4:10's my lca's and lca relocation brackets just arrived... well see if that helps...

 

If you can hook stock gears I can only imagine what you'll do on 4:10's. Relocation brackets will be exciting.

 

now just waiting for the heads!!!