Knightwolf

Thought I'd post this up here after today's runs.. almost everybody was running alot slower than they should've I think due to the weather being so friggin hot.. if I remember correctly, my in-car gauge was reading outside temps of about 92 degrees .. it was 86 on the drive home at around 6pm and it was definately cooler at that point; we were running in the early afternoon for about 1.5 to 2 hours. Elevation at the track is approximately 2300 feet above sea level.
If anybody can correct the times, I'm a little curious as to what the corrected times would be.

My best for the day was 13.539@105.96mph.. 2nd best was 13.644@106.18mph
My car runs strong and hard, but I have serious traction issues in 1st gear.. might need slicks or to lower the front tire pressures to being ridiculously low.. I had already put them down to 27 lbs. The rears were at 41 with the heat, and are normally at 34 on a normal day. Car ran pretty consistent 13.7's as I did part throttle 1st gear launches.

huckernage

if you have hptuner, you can reduce your boost on first gear by 50% if you want.

http://cobaltsteph.monchar.com/ (SC setup) talking this guy doing it cause is fidanza gave him hard time. faster acceleration= traction issue. he has reduced his boost by ˝

Snakes709

didnt help. I was at this track too. I have a TVS with the mods in my sig. My boost in 1st gear is at 40% and this is still what happend....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jhQT5nHh75w

Best time i did today was a 14.0@104 or 106 (cant remember which one)

FutureEcotecOwner

OP, are you stock?

avro206

correcting times on a super/turbo car yields a very little--esp at your low alt.

Checkout dragtimes.com they have historical weather data (taken from Edmonton Intl--don't go by your cars temp gages) and a correction calculator.

Knightwolf

Mostly stock yes.. muffler delete and a tune done 2 days ago.

FutureEcotecOwner

LOL, being stock and being tuned is 2 TOTALLY DIFFERENT things on these cars.

huckernage

ok nice

solve wawawawwaw trouble in first gear buy a urathane kit from cavalier04
-your wheel is going forward and backward. I tough it was up and down. people have told me my wheel go forward and...... I thing this can solve it. jpb sell a pair for cobalt at 220 us. for a cav on ebay it 50 us shipping in Qc.
..
it same bushing, just buy it from enoughperformance

just stand by for fittement. 2 week or so

Snakes709

spent enough on traction mods...dont need anymore. I have TTR Solid Engine Mount and Stage 2 Rotated Tranny Mounts....didnt matter what we did yesterday, launching was a bitch for all cars except for 1 guy...he managed to pull off a 13.2@107 with this SS/TC

huckernage

you have urathane in your control arm

if not you dont have spent often for traction mods

if yes I m sorry

Snakes709

no i dont have urathane in the control arms but oh well. I'm taking a break from the car for abit...going to work on my Kawasaki Ninja ZX6R. See if i can get into the low 11's with that

Knightwolf

Ya I realize that.. and as it was, I was the 2nd fastest car at the track on that day.. I was pretty disappointed with my times, but there was nothing I could do about that with the **** poor traction and the extremely hot weather. Next time there's a street legals going on with "normal" weather, I'll go try again; I expect to see a 13.2 at the very least. As for the guy who got the 13.2, he has mods and a superchips tune.. most of his runs were 13.7ish but he got lucky with that one lol.. perfect launch probably.. but the superchips tune is restricted to 66% in 1st gear.. mine's at 82%.
I did 14 runs and 10 of them were all 13.7-13.8.. 2 screw-ups and 2 good ones. One screw-up was 14.6@80 lol.. missed 3rd and said screw it.. coasted through and still won :P Other one I tried granny shifting.

Snakes709

you mean you werent double clutching like you should? your lucky you didnt blow the welds on the intake!

lol...sorry i couldnt resist. You going to the track this friday? I'm bringing my ZX6R, see what i can do on that.

Knightwolf

If its 30 degrees.. there's no point lol..but if it cools down I might, depending how late I have to work that night. The hot weather means I work longer hours :s

Knightwolf

If its 30 degrees(which is what the forecast is saying)... there's no point lol..but if it cools down I might, depending how late I have to work that night. The hot weather means I work longer hours :s

If its 30 degrees(which is what the forecast is saying)... there's no point lol..but if it cools down I might, depending how late I have to work that night. The hot weather means I work longer hours :s

Snakes709

well that sucks...just come later during the night, ill be there pretty much all night, getting as many runs as i can in

Knightwolf

Wow double post.. p.o.s website lol.. that makes me feel like Neoned from SRT4oA.. Inside joke.. but here's a couple of links to get an idea.. although this thread doesn't have any of his multiple posts of him repeating himself as he usually does, you still get to see what kinda person he is lol.
These guys are still going on about racing each other.. this has been going on for.. like.. ever! Both of them always talk unrealistic **** and it's quite entertaining to watch them go at each other the way they do lol.
Thread: http://www.srt4oa.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=13&t=8978
Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yy9NqQVMrGU

SPDJNKY

Hey Man,

I ran my 08 SS/TC in May.

Ran 14.1 stock corrected to 13.9 Got the calculator if you need it.

Need to get slicks. I contacted Hahn and they ran Mickey Thompson street radial II on stock rims. Dam Brembo brakes. Going to try the Hahn set up.

I launched at 2000 rpm. so sad. my 2008 STi could launch at 6500 rpm.

Is there a Edmonton SS club?

cheers

Shane

Snakes709

iiunno about a club....but we do hangout every once in awhile. We just had a cobalt meet at castrol...43 cars showed up (few of them werent cobalts tho) In a few weeks once everyone gets there cars that they r working on up and running im going to schedule a group dyno run at dyno shop in edmonton.

Knightwolf

Not really so much a club, but most of the members are in the regional section of this website.. problem is this website is so slow and laggy at times, that you can't even post or read things on it; it's really starting to get on my nerves lol. I plan on going to the track again when it's cooler; actually I went just this past Friday, but I got there too late.. tech was already closed so I went home. Should be able to go again sometime this month though, I'm sure there's more than a couple more street legals left in the year yet I gotta getta low 13 this year lol, otherwise I'm buying a new car :P j/k