!!!March 21st Cecil County Dragway!!!
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yes.............yes i do. haha. sleep is for the weak. drink water.
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I tried out my bald 18s last night. fail. started to wheel hop a tad. I didn't get hop at all on the 16s, even in the rain, nothing. The 16s, are lighter for 1, and make me feel more secure at the track. I think out of 6 passes last time on them, well my 16" steelies, i got hop once, and it was very minimal.
Nothing wrong with a 2.2 60' and a 108-110 trap.
All I hear is good things about these rotated mounts. I may have to look into them.
Nothing wrong with a 2.2 60' and a 108-110 trap.
All I hear is good things about these rotated mounts. I may have to look into them.
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I'm getting the roated mounts. With some hoping, praying and little luck they'll be here before or on Friday so I can install them
haha, I choose fun over sleep evertime........and then pay for it the next morning.
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yea i've cut a 2.2 on these tires without warming them up.... i think i'll do a burnout to warm them up
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Edit Post: Another words, if you have mounts, DR's, and upgraded axles the next weak link taking all of the horsepower is going to be the tranny. Some people with engine mounts and no tranny mounts can cause problems to. The engine can't move but the tranny twisted around. If you let of the gas when you have wheel hop with no mounts, no axles, and just DR's you will be ok. Trust me, I know personally because I watched a Redline pulling 1.8-1.7 60fts on DR's only pulling some nice times. Then he wheel hoped all the way to the 1/8th mile instead of leaving off the gas as soon as he heard the noise. Then again, I watched people with mounts, and without mounts break trannys and axles.
Even in a cobalt you would be in the 9s with a trap speed of 180, trust me haha. That trap speed is cracking me up bro. Could you imagine actually running a 11 second pass @ 180mph
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the way i'm looking at it is this........ wheel hop is the leading cause of broken axles. eliminate the wheel hop, save axles. i'm only put down.... 250ish whp, stock axles should be able to hold that. when my tax returns come in, i'll be purchasing mounts, axles, clutch & flywheel, so i'll have a nice setup to run the DRs on. until then, i'm not going to risk it
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If you guys don't run at least a 13.5 @ 109-110 mph I would personally be disappointed. I'm not joking, I honestly ran 13.6 @ 108mph on stage II tune and pulley. If track prep is decent and the air is good your all going to run great times with warm tires and correct tire pressure. I would not be surprised to see some 13.4s from you guys with 2.8 pulley/tune on street tires.
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I know that the reason is because you're not going the same speed the whole time and it depends how long it takes your vehicle to get up to a certain speed which then goes back to traction, weight, etc. But it's hard to comprehend what's going on if a car's trap is WAY high and the ET is really low.
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the way i'm looking at it is this........ wheel hop is the leading cause of broken axles. eliminate the wheel hop, save axles. i'm only put down.... 250ish whp, stock axles should be able to hold that. when my tax returns come in, i'll be purchasing mounts, axles, clutch & flywheel, so i'll have a nice setup to run the DRs on. until then, i'm not going to risk it