0-60 mph run. Full tank of gas, feathering the throttle to keep from spinning, and the car wasn't all the way warmed up. About 6.8 to 7 seconds (photobuckets time thing is screwed up:hick: ). I wonder what she'd do with 2.5" pipe aft of the H-pipe and a GT40 style intake :evilgrin:
http://s198.photobucket.com/albums/aa33/thunderjet302/?action=view¤t=DCFC0001.flv
Sweet video
I would think you would get a better time than that...me and Zonda with regular HOs both get just a hair over 7. But the car sounds really good. Maybe more grip will help.
The squak from the tires is 1/3 throttle:hick: . I can't nail it from a stop or I spin for 10-12 feet and the ass of the car goes sideways. The 215 section tires are just overmatched by the engines low speed torque and the 3.73 gears. If it could grip it would probably do 0-60 in about 6.5 seconds. Plus it's got, uh junk in the trunk. I have a full size spare, a jack, a tool box, deatailing stuff, and foldable chairs in there. The car pretty much loaded (just missing a sun roof) so I'm pretty sure with me in it (I weigh 155 lbs) it weighs close to 3700 lbs.
SICK!!! you got anger under that hood! 6.5 seconds is like stock mustang territory. id LOVE to be able to say mines ---just a hair even--- under 7 sec. maybe the 3.73s.
great to hear that you gotta actually keep off the gas. thats how you should be driving these cars....sideways. :hick: btw howd u time it? just the old stopwatch deal? lol prolly about good enough really. but i do love my gtech. like 10yrs old but she dont lie to me!
Yeah it spins like a mofookie at full throttle. Like I said too much torque and not enough tire. It sounds cool when I nail it from a stop but it really isn't doing much for forward momentum:hick: . I timed it with a stop watch. This was the second run and I filimed it. I need to get a budy with a gtech to get a more accurate reading though. I bet if you had a 3.73 Traction-Lok and nothing else your car would be faster than kingcars and near to mine. You have more tire than we do:D . I need to get at least 15" wheels (10 Holes or Turbines) with 225 section tires soon. I'd like to be able to, ya know, launch at full throttle:evilgrin:
225's wont let you launch at full throttle.
Nope... Maybe drag radials...
Well looks like I'll be getting drag radials sooner than I thought:hick: Any suggestions on a good size for a 10 Hole/Turbine that will minimize wheel slip?
HUH? I seriously don't understand. What are cougar tires wider r somethin? lol enlighten me, oh wise one!
Try to find yourself some nice snowflakes. I run 245/50/16's on my Turbo Coupe. They still spin, but its much better than when i had turbines on it.
Well I guess I'll try to find some snowflakes. Just wondering but aren't 91-93 Mustang Pony wheels the same size (16x7) as snowflakes? I know where there is a set by me cheap.........
Before my car was apart I had a similar setup as you w/245x50r16 out back w/3.55 and the car will spin all day at a stop unless you feather it off the line. These motors are very torquey so the answer going to be in your right foot.
Well short of drag radials I'm screwed then:hick:
A month later :hick:
So I've been playing around and I've got some new stuff.
Here is 1/3 throttle to start then firewalling it. :burnout:
http://s198.photobucket.com/albums/aa33/thunderjet302/?action=view¤t=0-60spin.flv
Pushing till spin and then backing off and then firewalling it.
http://s198.photobucket.com/albums/aa33/thunderjet302/?action=view¤t=0-60slightspin.flv
Starting on the street to 30 mph. thing still spins.
http://s198.photobucket.com/albums/aa33/thunderjet302/?action=view¤t=streetstart.flv
Just nudging the throttle on the side street by my house. Starts spinning at about 2,000 rpms with light throttle. I think with a 2,400 stall converter I'd really have slipping problems:hick:
http://s198.photobucket.com/albums/aa33/thunderjet302/?action=view¤t=spin.flv
what do you think it'll do in the 1/4?
Aw mannnnnn I gots to save my pennnies I want my 3.73s so I can do that too!!!
Awesome. Sounds like youre enjoyin it plenty!
My guess is about a 14.8-14.9 at about 95 or so. The car starts to loose power above 4,500 rpms because if the stock HO intake (heads and cam are good to ~5,400 rpm). Over the winter I'm installing the GT40 intake I have and a 65mm TB. Once the car comes out in the spring I'm also going to have the exhaust aft of the H-pipe upped to 2.5". That should hopefully knock about .4-.5 of a second off the 1/4 mile time (I think I'm being a bit optimistic on that though). I'm trying to get to a track before they close for the season but the closest one I can run at on the weekends is almost 2 hours away. I keep getting assignments at school that take up my Sundays. Stupid college:hick:
You can't turn the tires over now with the 3.08 Traction-Lok? The old SO and the stock 2.73 open would spin the tires :hick:
Mine I guess arouns 10-15 seconds with my V6 232ci, but I'll chech when I able...
I'll guess very slow..
My Mercyry cyclone was around 2.8to 3 seconds YEAHHHHHHHHHHH!...
Dom.
um you call that spinning? that is just chirpping, your not lossing any real amount of time with that. hell my stock XR-7 turns them harder then that.
Well its a 2.73 TL. But close enough! Yes if I bury it it will spin em alright and did when it was stock too! But in the videos ur just goosin' it and theyre squeaking!
But its not so much that its the low end off the line jump I want
I'm not mashing the throttle form a stop;) I'm trying to get to the point where they just chirp/spin a little and then nail it. What I should do is get a vid of a full throttle launch. Then you can hear my problem. Torque starts comming on strong about 2,200 rpms. The stock converter stalls at about 1,800-1,900 rpms. I'm not shocking the tires at less than full throttle so they just spin a little. I'm a bit affraid to go with a 2,400 rpm stall as I'm afriad I'll have bad traction problems (or not:hick: ).