Myself and a few friends went out to Cayuga today and it was shall we say "busy" Everyone and their dogs came along with goddam minivans running I trapped as high as 105 MPH and cut a best of 2.2 shorts but 3 runs in almost 4 hours is not nearly enough as this is my first time with drag radials and it showed. I only got to lower pressure once from 25 PSI to 23 PSI so hopefully on the next drag day in 2 weeks I know it will get ALOT better. My best time of the day.....2.3 short 14.0 @ 104 MPH. That was my third and final run as I couldn't wait through 50 cars to get another run in. The stage kits are making power there's no doubt about that as my previous best ET was 100 MPH. 13's are there and if I can get acquainted with these DR's which I know I can with a little more track time I can see this car as is now hitting mid 13's.

 

thats good to know. thanks. i was having my doubts

 

SWEET! Like that trap speed. What size pulley?

 

2.9 and once I get used to the DR's the 2.7 is going on

 

Nice job, trap is impressive. Car is making a ton of power!
It sucks it was so busy, as 2.0 60's with dr's is pretty common with some seat time, and that would put you at a 13.4!!!
3 runs is pretty rough, some other guys said they got 17 in Jersey.
That's how you figure the car out.
Great runs though.

 

If I can nail a 13.4 in my daily driver/winter car then I reached the goal I set for this car

 

Nice job man, I can't wait to get my car to the track.

 

It's totally doable with that kind of power, and those tires.
I can only assume that you were bogging the car to get 2.3 60's.
You have to drop the pressure to about 20lbs, or maybe 18 later on, and launch it pretty high. Maybe 3500-4000 on your car, pop the clutch, modulate the gas if necessary(likely not).
If you don't spin the tires a little, you are not launching hard enough. In a pewrfect launch, the tire would make one revolution when you pop the clutch, then hook and go.
Those tires can hold alot of power down, you just need some time on them and 13.4's
will be a regular thing.

Good luck, hope to hear good results in 2 weeks.

 

I don't want to get bashed for this but I was on street tires and not adjusting the air pressure(left at stock settings) with just intake and exhaust, full street trim and was able to pull a 14.3@ 100 with a 2.3 60'fter yesterday stock pulley and no boost bypass.

If you made a 14.0 pass @ 104 with a 2.3 60'fter then if you got a 2.0 your really only knocking .3 off which makes for a 13.7-13.8 pass at best it seems like the GM kit is just really making less power then advertised.. Maybe it's just me but good times none the less. hopefully you get better hooks on those DR's

My next mods are suspension mods before my stage kit.. we will see if I can score a low or flat 14 the next time. Gotta squeeze in the work on the car before the track.

 

.3 off the 60 FT. time equates to more than .3 in the 1/4 mile I'm sure.

 

What Drag Radial setip are you running?

 

Correct ... not to mention the 5 MPH trap speed increase is a much better indication of how much more power was made

 

I'm almost positive I've read that what ever you drop your 60ft time by your 1/4 mile time drops by twice that.

I was looking back through Fast06SS's time slips and when he ran his 13.5 it was at 104 mph, so once you get some more practice launching you should be able to get those times too.

 

.3 off 0 to 60 and .7 off 1/4

 

nice time man, your in the same route as me basically, im running 13.901@103 which is around a 13.6 with a better 60' and you should be around a 13.50 or so since your trapping 104.

 

remember though his are with DR's meaning the MPH will be lower ...

 

My best time of the day was 14.2@104mph with a 2.350 60ft better 60ft times and the 13's are there especially with that 104mph trap speed. It was nice racing with you ninja I had fun.....we will have too go again. Hopefully my stock pirellels will grab when it gets warmer.

 

if i had to guess, I would say 13.5-13.6 with a 2.0 60'. i don't think there's an exact forumla to the 60' to 1/4

but like others said, 105 mph is a good indication of your power.

 

you could run a 14'0 with just a pulley, maybe even a 13.9 with DR's added. youre gonna kick ass when you get your launch down!!!

 

"Warmer" is precisely the reason for those runs. The pavement is much to cold even for DR's to hook up. Run it again in June or July and then you'll see much better times I'm sure. Nice runs BTW guys - and Sean, call me...bitch!!

 

You missed it buddy, especially the Jet car I couldn'y get enough track time but those tires hook pretty good for a cool day. Was great to finally meet you Colin Thanks for all the feedback folks, I know I'll get mid 13's soon enough. I'm running BFG drag radials.

 

traction > fwd good times though.

a friend of mine was getting 13.8 and trapping at 105-107 in his srt..haha..imagine how he feels.

 

pretty sweet runs man! let me know a week b4 the next meet and i can try to get it off work and come!!!

 

LIAR

 

I have some videos from Cayuga. Unfortunatly my friends high end video camera corrupted an hour of tape! So i lost the vids of my best runs.

My best time was 14.836 @ 100.88 in my '06 Cobalt SS/SC.
I was surprised to get under 15 considering i've only had it for 4 months and its my first stick car. I had only practice drags the night before.

It was great to see so many other Cobalts out there.
I have a great video of me getting beat off the line by a Cobalt LS and then me coming back to beat it by over 1 second. Im looking forward to some practice so i can get the timing of the lights.

I have the slips if anyone is interested, but my times aren't anything special.

The videos i have are of the last runs for Ninja44 in his black ss/sc with stage 1, the yellow ss/sc with stage 1, a black ss 2.4, and some of me.

I also have some Hyabusa's kicking ass, the rocket car getting ready for launch but cutting due to fuel pressure problems (the one of it actually doing the 1/4 mile in 5 seconds at 306MPH became corrupt on my digi cam) and my friends in their grand prix and monti carlo.

I will set up a page tomorrow with all of the videos for downloading on the guy with the Grand Prix's website.

-Brad