First time at the drags last night, my first run was a 16.6, my worst was a 17.5 (I bogged my engine and had a 4 sec 60')
Here is my best run
r/t .553
60' 2.385
1/8th 10.065
1/8th MPH 69.74
1/4 15.551
1/4 MPH 89.88
My car is completly stock. Temp was about 80 and i was 150 feet above sea level. Am I just a bad driver (I won't hate you if you say yes) or is this what a car is supposed to run?
I am getting my new EM in 2 weeks and wanted to get a baseline run. I was shifting around 6700 and slipping the clutch between 4-6K. Also i was getting 15.9 for a while then somebody there gave me a bag of ice (to put on the IC between runs) and a K&N drop in to try and that is when i got the 15.551.
yeah actually once i did fall asleep at the line, i had a 2.2 r/t, it was my first time at the light and i was getting ready and the next thing I knew, the car next to me had already taken off. Nobody explained the lights to me. according to one guy at the track they don't start timing you until you cross the start line, so i could sit there for 10 minutes and still get the same time. The guy I was racing was running a 14.1 in a stage 2 WRX wagon.
maybe the place i race is jus slow... its not an actual drag strip, just a 1/4 strip down the straigtaway at the local indy car track. the STI's were running in the low 14s and another stock wrx ran 16 flat.
maybe the place i race is jus slow... its not an actual drag strip, just a 1/4 strip down the straigtaway at the local indy car track. the STI's were running in the low 14s and another stock wrx ran 16 flat.
As a point of comparison: I just got back from our local "VHT? whuzzat?" back-country track for the first time out with our '05 WRX Wagon; bone stock, only change from showroom condition has been a short shifter and some shifter bushings. The best slip that I was able to manage was:
60' - 2.030
1/8 - 9.544@72.16
1/4 - 14.968@90.15
If I could actually hook up at the line and get the 60' down to a 1.9, there's probably a decent mid-14 second pass in there; the MPH is definitely there. Launching this thing is a bit different than our two DSMs; the off-the-line lag is terrible. (I can cut a 1.8 60' without a lot of effort in a mostly stock 1g DSM, for comparison.) There's a better track nearby that we'll probably try and hit in a few weeks, and we'll see if we can't nail a more reasonable launch.
I'm kicking myself for not bringing the laptop and logger so I could see what knock, boost, and timing advance looked like on that run.
[ Edit: I should clarify, that was full-weight; spare/jack/tools were still in the car, along with floor mats, rear hatch area mats and flooring, etc. And a "full-figured" driver. No idea what our race weight was, the scale at the track was broken. ]
sounds like you just need to work on driving. my car is stock other than up and down pipes and i managed to pull a 13.8 on monday (same track that logic was at actually (great lakes dragaway)). anyway. i started off making 14.4 runs then 14.1 then finally a 13.9 then a 13.8. my friend was taping my runs so when i watched them i could see what i was doing wrong. turns out i could come off the line a bit harder and get it into second a lot quicker. try to bring a camera with next time.
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