Hey guys. I took the car to Cayuga today and had a blast. I managed to get 6 runs in before it got ridiculously busy. All things considered I was very happy with my results.

Weather/Time:
I raced from 8:00pm-9:30pm. It wasn't too humid outside and the temperature was in and around 24 Celsius (75 Degrees).

The Car:
-2008 Sport Red Tint-Coat Cobalt SS/TC, black interior, LSD, Sunroof, OnStar, XM radio.

I lowered the front tire pressure to approximately 27 psi. The car has 1500kms on it and was broken in wisely in my opinion (letting the car see revs but not abuse). The spare tire was kept in the trunk, nothing removed, yada yada yada, it's a bone stock SS/TC and I didn't touch anything but the front tire pressure. There was 1/2 a tank of gas in the car, 91 octane from Petro Canada.
Traction control was turned OFF for all of the runs. I did NOT use launch control on any of the runs.

Here are the 6 times in order from worst to best ET:

14.284@101.91mph, 60'=2.279
14.215@101.65mph, 60'=2.306
14.186@101.61mph, 60'=2.230
14.183@102.10mph, 60'=2.299
14.153@102.16mph, 60'=2.239

14.118@102.01mph, 60'=2.266


Well that's that. Here are the pictures of my solo trip to the track plus the time slips. Any feedback is appreciated. Thanks everyone.

The clean car when I got it, just for comparison to the trip.


Leaving home to go to the track.


On the road to the track.


Ready to run.


Tire pressure


Nice night. Waiting in line.


Some bikes.


Met the guy in the red Mazdaspeed3, stock, best run of the night was 14.3@99 I believe


3rd and 2nd best times


Best run of the night

 

wow very very nice u beat my fastest time but i didnt lower my front tires

 

its the sport tint, makes you go faster then vic

 

Granted, but the mph is all mine

The colour has grown on me big time.

 

Nice runs man, I think your trap is really well for your times.

 

good job!

 

Thanks a lot guys. I really tried to drop the 60' under 2.2 but it just wouldn't happen. Has anyone managed to do this? Anyone in the 13's yet?

 

I'm sure a few people have hit 13's stock, I mean I know its possible. But then again the people that have either havent posted about it or arent on this website. I dont even think Hahn ran down the 1/4 mile stock. A 2.2 60' for a FWD car like the Cobalt is pretty damn good, and I'm not sure if you can really get any lower. I mean I'm sure you can, but it would take alot of work.

 

PimpLay2, send your time slip to Bad06SS so I won't be the only one on the Official 1/4 Mile list. I'm so lonely *sniff*

 

will do.... who is he though lol?

 

umm soo 14.11 is nice, why didnt you use launch control? and what did you launch at?

 

nice times man. You car has the best top end I've seen from a ss/tc yet. 23/24 mph in the back half is really good for stock. I'm kind of surprised that the mazdaspeed didn't run so well, I figured it would pick up at least 1mph in the quarter with lighter wheels, and you can tell that his wheels obviously aren't stock.

 

Launch control bogged on me each time I tried so I decided not to use it. I feathered from around 2500rpm, something like that.

I'm not 100% about his trap speed but that was definitely his best ET of the night. Those wheels were 18's and not meant for lighter weight. He told me they were just as heavy as his stock ones.

 

great times

samo napred

now get PPC tune

 

Your number... 896. Timeslip shows number 511. I don't get it... ??

 

WORD. The other ticket looks beat up, different printer maybe? And car #1..maybe a type-o.

 

All of my slips has a different car # and I have no idea why. I have 5, 596, 5, 570, 1, and 511. Anyone ever had this issue before? I've had cut off slips, overlapping numbers etc, but never this.

Meh, doesn't matter to me really, after each run I picked up the slip and ran 14.1-14.2 all night.

I also went to Cayuga with a friend on Wednesday last week. The car #'s were perfect each time. At around 9pm though there was a city wide black out so I kept my receipt and they let me come back Friday for free since the power didn't come back on that day. Maybe the numbers were f***ed because of the blackout, maybe because on Wednesday there were only 10 cars and Friday had over 70, no idea.

 

13's will be a comin very shortly

 

ssoooo should you use launch control or not? or only if you get good with it?

 

Nice runs! Can you turn off the launch control?

 

If I go on a day where there are less cars and I can get more runs in, then I will experiment more with launch control. Since it was busy when I went, I didn't bother. I can only hope GM didn't make a useless setting so I'm assuming it can be a good way to launch.

If you turn off traction control then launch control will NOT be on. If you press the button a second time, you will go into Competition Mode and launch control will be on. For launch control to work you have to have the clutch in and throttle to the floor, at which point the revs will hold around 5000rpm.

 

5000rpm=pointless on a fwd street tire car.

 

I'm with this guy.

5K launch for almost any street car, regardless of drivetrain, is too high.

 

Yeah with this car and the power it has, I would never launch from more than 3k. When my Wife had her Celica GTS, I could launch around 4500-5000 and be fine, but it was running a turbo or anything.

 

Really?


Is launch at 5800rpm on slicks and pull 1.6 60's


although i launch high because my slicks are too tall which = bog which = break.