Running down the strip for the 1st time...
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From: wyoming @ 12000 DA...
Running down the strip for the 1st time... Ok.. So i have a 1996 Trans Am with all the options (power everything and t-tops).
It has 87,000 some miles on it.
Auto, stock 3.23's i think.
Nothing is done to the car that is worth mention. Exhaust is jsut cut off (so cutout? lol) and it has a mallory ignition box. The air box has a K&N drop in with the air box cut up to have the entire filter showing. Back seat, sparetire and jack all taken out.. Then the griffin radiator (good for a lil wieght gone and runs way cooler)
I will have draglite wheels/slicks and am goign to unhook the front sway bar.
Motor only has a lil over 5,000 miles on the clock.
At 5300 feet above sea level, what can i expect? Think a high 13's is high hopes? If I run a 14 flat i will be happy....
And any tips for launching hard?
I will return saterday night/sunday morning with results...
PS... i will not be spraying this weekend..
It has 87,000 some miles on it.
Auto, stock 3.23's i think.
Nothing is done to the car that is worth mention. Exhaust is jsut cut off (so cutout? lol) and it has a mallory ignition box. The air box has a K&N drop in with the air box cut up to have the entire filter showing. Back seat, sparetire and jack all taken out.. Then the griffin radiator (good for a lil wieght gone and runs way cooler)
I will have draglite wheels/slicks and am goign to unhook the front sway bar.
Motor only has a lil over 5,000 miles on the clock.
At 5300 feet above sea level, what can i expect? Think a high 13's is high hopes? If I run a 14 flat i will be happy....
And any tips for launching hard?
I will return saterday night/sunday morning with results...
PS... i will not be spraying this weekend..
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From: wyoming @ 12000 DA...
So lighter wheels.. slicks... some **** taken out for weight... throttlebody bypass.. ignition... cutout... and new motor im sitll only good for mid 14's at my elevation???
i thought someone with shittier gears and a ton of miles ran a 14.2 at 4500 feet in another thread... humm
any tips for the hardest launch? I have slicks so i want to come out of hte hole as hard as possible...
i thought someone with shittier gears and a ton of miles ran a 14.2 at 4500 feet in another thread... humm
any tips for the hardest launch? I have slicks so i want to come out of hte hole as hard as possible...
Originally Posted by Dragframe
God i hate this place... i want to go to the air force and get on a base closer to sea level...
I just wait for the tree to come down with my left foot on the brake and hammer it. Ive tried the stall the car up and such, and my car seems to launch just as hard flooring it from idle. 60's are identical
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Originally Posted by Black99TransAm
i ran a 14.9 at 99 mph in my friends 6 speed 97 trans am... all he had then was 17x9 wheels with 275 tires, and a cat back... that was with a 2.1 60 foot...
That car has way more potential. I ran a 14.9 @93 mph at around 4500 ft. That was with CAI only.
you don't have enough power for those slicks... your posi might hate you after that. Don't expect excellent 60's either because a SLIGHT amount of wheelspin is desired, stock stall and gears you might bog off the line with such sticky tires. only the track will know for sure 
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From: wyoming @ 12000 DA...
Originally Posted by ec_nova
you don't have enough power for those slicks... your posi might hate you after that. Don't expect excellent 60's either because a SLIGHT amount of wheelspin is desired, stock stall and gears you might bog off the line with such sticky tires. only the track will know for sure
so is it worth my time to grind the caliper down to make these wheels fit?
Originally Posted by Dragframe
God i hate this place... i want to go to the air force and get on a base closer to sea level...
I am in the Air Force, and I have to drive to Memphis for the closest 1/4 mile. About a 2 and half hour drive, little under 2 my driving..
And if you want to run some bigger tires on that stock Differential, you will eat it. Mine **** out when I put the Z06 Rims and the 275/40's on it. I would be able to run those slicks with my setup, expecially with the 3.73's.
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Originally Posted by the_merv
Yours is a 1999, mine is a 1995, different years, different parts in the back, and mine had more years on it.
Air force is the most attractive and im going to suck a lil bit out of them and get up into the payroll a lil further when i sign up....
EDIT: this is Dragframe on my friends account..
Originally Posted by Camaro Bird 1987
I guess i just like the Air Force recruiter more... the army is just too cliche and all the marines have big heads (that i know).
Air force is the most attractive and im going to suck a lil bit out of them and get up into the payroll a lil further when i sign up....
EDIT: this is Dragframe on my friends account..
Air force is the most attractive and im going to suck a lil bit out of them and get up into the payroll a lil further when i sign up....
EDIT: this is Dragframe on my friends account..
Last edited by ZFan88; Jun 11, 2006 at 09:29 AM.
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Originally Posted by ZFan88
Get up into the payroll a little further?? Lol, it's all standardized. The highest you can enter will be E4 and that's not much. I'm in the AF too
well that is better than coming in at e1 aint it?
[/smartass]
honestly.. lol... if I can come in making anymore money then of course im going to do it.
Im either gunna go in for Air Traffic Control or Crew Cheif...
back on topic... so anyone thing with slicks a 14.2 will be easy? im going tomarro.. soo