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The Z goes up in smoke tonight!!!!! The weather here was terrible it rained all day . There was a 2 hour window at the track and i desided to
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The Z goes up in smoke tonight!!!!!
The weather here was terrible it rained all day . There was a 2 hour window at the track and i desided to go for it. They tried to dry out the track and they let us race on it. It was 42 degree's and the wind was againts you at least 25 miles an hour into the nose of the car. There was only 7 cars there and one of then was a white GTR. My dream come true. to finally line up with a GTR and see how fast they are. This is my first time at a big name track and its the first time racing at night. Everything went wrong. Too much gas in the car.2/3 of a trank My ecu would not let me heat up the tire's. it kept stalling out the engine. The best i could do was floor it out of water box and spin then close to the start line. The weather conditions got worse every run as there was no prep on the track at all. My first pass was an earth shattering 16.613 @98.11 with a 2.6 60 ft time. I did the 1/8 in 11.38. It spun the tires through 1st, 2nd and half way through third. I hit the rev limiter at 8100 in 1st and 2nd. It also fish taled on me at the gear changes. ( not a good feeling) There was no traction any where on the track. I thanked God that i survied that run with me and the car in one piece. I foolishly decided that i should make another run, ( the storm was coming and the wind got worse. I took the tire down to 20 psig had my best run of the night, 13.099 @ 110.02 with a 2.121 go ft time. it did the 1/8th in 8.502 @ 87.16. I can not belive how the 305 35 18 drag radials just spun in 1st gear. I tried every thing for rolloing the car at 750 rpm and them feathering it but my times got worse and worse, And now for the main event The 370 vs the GTR. we got into the staging lanes and they shut down the track as it was too dangerous to race because the rain had started to sprinkle down. his best pass was a 12.3. he never showed me the time slip but i do not think that he went that fast. The car would not hook and i learned a good lesson tonight that a non preped track in 42 degree outside air temp is a bad thing to race on. I feel bad as i have let the 370z guys down tonight. I could not imangne have a GTM Sc on the car tonight as im sure i would have hit the side retaining walls with the loss of traction. The only good thing about tonight is that the motor sounded wicked in side the car the intake temp's were 46 degress acording to the cobb. Im so disappionted at my times. But warmer weather is coming and i will try again. It was not the night to drag race, i learned the hard way. For all you guys racing in cold conditions be carefull as its not worth it for you could lose control of your car and have a bad acciddent. I had one scarey moment when it spun the tire's at 8000 rpm in 2nd gear, and it spun when i shiffed into 3rd. i will never race in these conditions again. Z Eliminator
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Ahhh, its no big deal... 46 degrees your engine would love but def not the tires... That stinks though. Def happens. 16.6 lol
I am going with the 16 inch radial with the taller sidewall yet skinnier tire to attempt to get traction. Z Elim, I looked at our ABS fuse under the hood and it is part of a series of 3 fuses in one plastic holster. And with one being the vvel I was not about to mess with it, Is that the same way the ABS fuse is in the 350 ???? I'm going to buy another fuse before I mess with it, and possible try to disable the one ABS fuse by cutting the current fuse, Than if that allows me to do burnouts I than will some how solder a wire with its own inline fuse with a switch to turn ABS off for burnouts at the strip.
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Zeliminator....with any drag oriented tire....sidewall height is more important than width. There are an absolute ton of cars that go 9's or better now on 275/60/15's. Going to have to drop the pressure down to 15-16 and really heat 'em up with temps in the 40-50 degree range with that short of a sidewall. I am sure you will get it dialed in.....
Red370....my only issue is your attitude in posting...I have no qualm with posting of your vid, etc.....I think this HR vs VHR thing is pretty silly. All that being said.....you only ran like a 13.3X in that vid correct? What would people have thought I had I beat you by the same amount and posted it up? Just sayin'......the results are arbitrary and highly dependent on driver skill/experience. |
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No, I'm really not. I posted in here because Chuck and I had a running dialogue through PM, etc on my350 and I wanted to give him props for his runs. I just don't like the way red370 handled himself in the my350z thread. In fact...I was the one that initially posted that I expect to see some 12.4-12.6's out of bolt-on VHR's. The other 350 users didn't like that too much. I'm past it now.
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hahaha small world... vinny had said you had a 370 too... I think u missed the 12.9 though. I was trying to launch from higher and higher towards the end of the night and the outcome was 13.0 - 13.2
2700 seemed to be the sweet spot that night... I should of kept with that.. Were you driving the TT 350 ? You or who ever was driving looked to have a little trouble getting traction even with those MTs ... What kind of power is your beast pushing ? I was expecting to see you go atleast low 12s. Seemed like the WRX wanted to run but after a fun night racing I was trying to get locked up in NJ , lmao. He ran his car too right ?
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i run 13s easy stock, and beat everthing stock "dogdge, bmw, (modified honda), s2000 etc." on the track that i raced -- The modified cars (Big boys-oldschool Cam,Must etc 6,7,9,10sec cars) smoked the crap out of me through |
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What exactly do you mean ? What are 13's? 13.00's or in the 13s. A few tenths is a big difference. Is yours automatic? All the autos seem to run 13.2-5 stock where as most manual tranny guys are around 13.5-7 from what I have seen. A properly driven camaro ss is a 12.8 car so our Cars don't beat "everything" stock. What was your time that you got? And I ran a 13.6 (2.2 60 foot) with street tires. 12.9 (1.9 60 foot ) with same mods and M/T ET Streets the next time, its all about the first 60 feet.. I think I can do a little better too. I did not do a burnout at all and didnt really figure out exactly how to launch perfectly , and than the sway from the slicks was impeading on my driving, its not a nice feeling riding on the et streets and something to get used to. I may sell these off to go with et street radials. I have since gotten an OEM VLSD I think with my mods ( g3's, test pipes, stillen exhaust, stillen pulley, and uprev tune ), I can get a 12.8 MAYBE 12.7 with a 1.8 60 and some ideal conditions.
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