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From: Turnin' Wrenches Infractions: 005
^^^hmm someone runs a 12.9 stock and 12.9 stock. a couple posts up i see a bone stock runs a 11.25. hmmm thats a huge difference. mine ran 12.9 with some mods when i went. somebody equals 
I've ran A4 for a while now and I'm in the process of swapping to a T56. Personally I'm kinda wanting it for the fun factor, and I want to be able to play with the Car more. I'm not going in it for competitions..so the aspect of making the Car as fast as can be is really not needed. I built it up and just about everything in it, so this is another one of my "lets see if I can do this mod..".
Like mentioned about about destroying Auto's.. I killed mine yesterday on the highway..a downshift to pass someone blew mine up. I've murdered two A4's in the last 6 months. That is another thing that is starting to irritate me..so I'm swapping to the built T56 and I see that lasting a hell of alot longer, and me having alot more fun with it.
That and I just put in a Moser 9", so I have the *** under it to support the T56 with my setup..I plan on crushin some Cobra's on the Highway with the 'ole LT1 Car..
Like mentioned about about destroying Auto's.. I killed mine yesterday on the highway..a downshift to pass someone blew mine up. I've murdered two A4's in the last 6 months. That is another thing that is starting to irritate me..so I'm swapping to the built T56 and I see that lasting a hell of alot longer, and me having alot more fun with it.
That and I just put in a Moser 9", so I have the *** under it to support the T56 with my setup..I plan on crushin some Cobra's on the Highway with the 'ole LT1 Car..
very nice merv. its def. fun. and for 01 ss red a4 that was at centerville and 1000 ft track. geez if anybody could run a stock ls1 at 11.25 at at quater mile .....well its can be a stock ls1 haha.
ok, its been a while since i wrote on here. mueller... i know you're talking about pardo and his gay *** camaro. to let everyone know on here, pardo bought his camaro with those mods. he has done nothing by himself and never will. we both raced a year ago in centerville. my z28 was bone stock at the time and he had those stupid mods. his reaction time was a whole second faster than mine. and at the end he beat me by half a hood length, not a car length!! i got all these mods done now and he still talks ****, yes he does, but you can ask mueller... he doesn't want any of this. i beat the hell out of that $35,000 WRK STI. and looked what happened. he got smoked, all and all i would rather have a 6 speed anyday.
so in turn the 6 speed was faster on the street? is what you are saying hunter. and yes i do agree shorty headers were a waste of time but he swears up and down that long tube headers on give us maybe 5 more horse. HAHAH i laugh at him everytime he says that. but hey he is happy with his car and i guess that is all that counts. HAHA except when i pass him on the highway.
nice. and sonnick yes he will probably never race us because then he couldn't talk his car up and down. i mean he is my buddy and all but my car will never be as good as his because i can't go to the moon and back like his car already has. hahah and the merv yes this is a guy we work with.
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Joined: Aug 2006
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From: Atlanta
I think by this time you have got the idea. If you plan to drag the car on a regular basis a M6 is not the way to go. Now if you just want to drag for fun once in a while then rowing gears adds a little more of a challenge but much more in the fun factor on the street. Be warned..........if you are very competative and want that very last tenth of a second on the strip, better go with auto cause once you hit the track you will be very frustrated trying to match the consistency of an auto. This is one of those "can't have your cake and eat it too" kind of problems.
And you will get raped by their stall on launch.
Last I checked, my 5500rpm launch does just as good as their stall. I'm not leaving on a 10 bolt. Spooled 9" and I ain't scared to tear anything up. I'm not being an *** or anything, I'm just saying that my car leaves pretty hard itself.
A Stall works good for consistantancy.. I had mine in and I could pull consistant 1.56X 60ft's. I know people with M6's that are dumping it high and pulling consistant 1.50's..
I think by this time you have got the idea. If you plan to drag the car on a regular basis a M6 is not the way to go. Now if you just want to drag for fun once in a while then rowing gears adds a little more of a challenge but much more in the fun factor on the street. Be warned..........if you are very competative and want that very last tenth of a second on the strip, better go with auto cause once you hit the track you will be very frustrated trying to match the consistency of an auto. This is one of those "can't have your cake and eat it too" kind of problems.
well i went up to centerville yesterday and it is hard to be consistent with the launch. i was staying consistent at 11.4 all day and i had one great launch and banged out a 11.2 so that was good on the 1000 foot. and that was only my second time at the track so i am still trying to get it down.
i wanna go to the track but not til nite time, when its cool and not so damn hot. i wanna try to get an 11.1 or even an 11.0 my first time when my care was bone stock i ran a best of 11.68. reaction time was terrible... 1.4
. So close to a perfect launch. 11.25 is range for wearing a helmet now at center ville GAY. but it was fun i lost some torque when i put the 3 inch pipe all the way back on the true dual so my first gear wasn't at quick as it was last time but i can rip through 2nd at about 3500 rpms now and third all the way through. my reaction time last night was like .2