HELP! Got some horrible 1/4 mile times!

[firebird49er]

k guys here are the timeslips. These were the only times filled in on the slip, the rest were just 0's.

1st run:
reaction: .932 et: 20.701 mph: 79.168
2nd run:
reaction: .991 et: 17.155 mph: 82.764
3rd run:
reaction: .655 et: 17.144 mph: 83.222
4th run:
reaction: .881 et: 16.950 mph: 82.717
5th run:
reaction: .909 et: 16.977 mph: 82.673
6th run:
reaction: .849 et: 17.104 mph: 82.387

The I1, I2, I3, and I4 slots were all 0's.

I actually felt my car was running better than ever that day. Hey tellez, what kind of cars go friday and saturday, cuz thursday night is pure v8 so i feel kinda awkward being there. i'm not going again til thursday feb. 19th (thats my next day off when track is open), maybe u can go and see what i'm doing wrong and give pointers or something, i just really want to get that time down.

[ReodDai]

83mph trap? sweet mother of fbody's thats low...

[MustangEater8251]

Is your track at a high elevation?

[shortdog273]

I thought all of Texas tracks were low elevation. Even with a crappy 60', your trap speed should be alot higher than 83 mph. Something isn't right.

[njspder]

if you could post yoru 60ft times that would help a lot.
from the variation in your time/trap speeds it looks like you were no where near consistant getting off the line.
look at the thread with the tips and let us know how your next trip turns out.

later
tim

[firebird49er]

the 60' times were not on the timeslips, not sure why. if it helps any, i have 3.08 gears with open diff., the only mods performance-wise is the ram air from suncoast creations and the flowmaster muffler. when i'm on the streets i have raced lots of mustangs, firebirds, camaro's and only lost once, but those are all while driving so we're already moving. i have always noticed and it might be the problem that my takeoff is pretty slow. its a really bad takeoff, like i won't race on the streets from a stop light because my takeoff is so horrible. my brother just bought a 96 manual firebird, and he took me for a ride and his takeoff was alot better than mine. any ideas on why this might be??

[Tellez]

Thurdays are street legal night cars have to have full exhaust. Fridays are test and tune nights even crappy cars go and saturdays are bracket racing and it's only the first saturday of the month

[jc Kyle]

moo

[Tyler]

did you turn off your ac? just wondering

[95Batmobile]

Originally posted by jc Kyle:
moo

Why are you adding barn yard animal sounds to a bunch of posts?

[firebird49er]

man i thought this post had died a long time ago. anyways, yea the ac was off. i wasn't flooring it from the start because then the car would just peel out for awhile. i've been practicing takeoff on some back roads and have felt an improvement, but if it really helps we'll see. do u all think the lower control arms i just installed should help?? my car hops alot for like a good 3-4 seconds (its lowered and i had switched from 16's to 17's), so this hopefully should reduce it a bit.

[Akuma]

Those 3.08s pretty much kill your et. An LSD and some 3.42s or 3.73s will help those times out a lot.

[jc Kyle]

i only did it to 2 [img]smile.gif[/img]