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Woot! Improving times - moving toward 11's!

I changed the crimped up 2 1/4" cat-back in my car to a nice mandrel-bent 2 1/2 " setup.

My previous best was 12.48 @ 114.5 MPH.

New best:

R/T .618

60' 1.78

1/8 8.017 @ 89.4 MPH

1/4 12.279 @ 117.1 MPH

I'm happy :banana:
11.96 @ 118 MPH old 306 KB; 428W coming soon.

Woot! Improving times - moving toward 11's!

Reply #1 –
Cools. What's next? :D
2005 Subaru WRX STi|daily driver

Woot! Improving times - moving toward 11's!

Reply #2 –
did you run last night? the air must have been freaking awesone up at NED last night. i had contimplated going.
:america: 1988 Thunderbird Sport, Former 4.6 DOHC T56 conversion project.

Rest of the country, Welcome to Massachusettes. Enjoy your stay.

 
Halfbreed... Mango Orange Y2K Mustang GT
FRPP complete 2000 Cobra engine swap, T56 n' junk...
~John~

Woot! Improving times - moving toward 11's!

Reply #3 –
The air was great last night :D

The track was cold & I was getting a little squirrely on my second run when I didn't get a good burnout (car slid sideways). In fact, the next time I went sideways during the burnout, the starter girl had me re-do my burnout - "if you wipe out here, you'll wipe out there" she said - glad they know what they are doing there. That was the best run with the car rocketing straight from beginning to end. :D

11.96 @ 118 MPH old 306 KB; 428W coming soon.

Woot! Improving times - moving toward 11's!

Reply #4 –
Sweet :cool:
88 Thunderbird LX: 306, Edelbrock Performer heads, Comp 266HR cam, Edelbrock Performer RPM intake, bunch of other stuff.

Woot! Improving times - moving toward 11's!

Reply #5 –
That looks nice man, congrats on lowering your time too.  Gotta love the looks of duals.
:grinno:

Woot! Improving times - moving toward 11's!

Reply #6 –
Better view of tails & tires...

11.96 @ 118 MPH old 306 KB; 428W coming soon.

Woot! Improving times - moving toward 11's!

Reply #7 –
Quote from: Cougar5.0;107387
Better view of tails & tires...



:D[SIZE="6"]BURP![/SIZE] :drink:
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there's only about a half a dozen man made objects that are herd by the human ear below 40Hz,a pipe organ,thunder,the space shuttle lifting off,a jet airplane taking off or landing,a large canon,an atomic bomb ignited in your back yard and the heat wave afterward oh wait you would be dead so you would'nt hear it scratch that!,and maybe beating your hear against a wall less then 40 times a second..rap music is'nt one of them!thats 40-60Hz@100+db the moving air is under 40Hz

Woot! Improving times - moving toward 11's!

Reply #8 –
Quote from: Blown306Cougar;107422
:D[SIZE="6"]BURP![/SIZE] :drink:


You out drinkin' again? :rollin:
11.96 @ 118 MPH old 306 KB; 428W coming soon.

Woot! Improving times - moving toward 11's!

Reply #9 –
Quote from: Cougar5.0;107449
You out drinkin' again? :rollin:


me drink?:rolleyes:

come on i live in florida now :grinno:

the home of multiple things that start with B's.. :D

which is better then the last state i lived in where just about everything started with A's :yuck: :D
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there's only about a half a dozen man made objects that are herd by the human ear below 40Hz,a pipe organ,thunder,the space shuttle lifting off,a jet airplane taking off or landing,a large canon,an atomic bomb ignited in your back yard and the heat wave afterward oh wait you would be dead so you would'nt hear it scratch that!,and maybe beating your hear against a wall less then 40 times a second..rap music is'nt one of them!thats 40-60Hz@100+db the moving air is under 40Hz

Woot! Improving times - moving toward 11's!

Reply #10 –
You're running 117, you should be DEEP 11s already.

Sixty foot could improve, but it seems to be moving out kinda slow through the first 1/8mi.  What gear ratio are you running?  Are you powershifting?  Or grannying it? :D

Gaining 28mph through the last half of the track is pretty unusual, most street cars gain about 22-25 unless they're not really pushed the first half track.

Congrats man!  That's moving out REALLY good for a KB on a 302...
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1984 Thunderbird V8

Woot! Improving times - moving toward 11's!

Reply #11 –
Quote from: 46Tbird;108189
You're running 117, you should be DEEP 11s already.

Sixty foot could improve, but it seems to be moving out kinda slow through the first 1/8mi.  What gear ratio are you running?

Gaining 28mph through the last half of the track is pretty unusual, most street cars gain about 22-25 unless they're not really pushed the first half track.

Congrats man!


Hehe - you noticed that huh? I am running HARD into the rev limiter in 1st gear (as in I shift after I notice the engine just flattened out suddenly) - lol - I am using an RPM switch that has a very large filter on it's output (as in really slow) and by the time the shift light goes on in first gear, it is way too late to shift. Works fine in other gears. I am thinking of getting a 375+ box to interface with my 300+ ignition as this has an RPM switch and a better rev-limiter to boot that can be set in 100 RPM increments (among other enhancements). If I can actually keep the car under full power through the 1/8th, I expect that my 1/8th will improve and I will quickly hit the 11's. Nice detective work BTW, I was not aware that the "issues" I was having were that noticable.
11.96 @ 118 MPH old 306 KB; 428W coming soon.

Woot! Improving times - moving toward 11's!

Reply #12 –
When you get that fixed, you'll knock off at least a half-second of ET, maybe even more.

Great job.. keep it up.
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1984 Thunderbird V8

Some improvement this week...

Reply #13 –
R/T: .111 (they changed to a .000 light from a .500 lgt last week.

60' - 1.692 (best was 1.65 this week - not bad)

330' - 5.179

1/8 - 7.929 @ 89.25

1000' - 10.265

1/4 - 12.198 @ 117.04

I upped the rev limeter to 6250 & this helped a bit, but I'm still over-revving in 1st and my shifting is like a grandmom. When I hit the shifter harder I miss 3rd - the Tremec doesn't appreciate the extra RPM's :( I'm think I'm going to order the control module for my ignition.
11.96 @ 118 MPH old 306 KB; 428W coming soon.

Woot! Improving times - moving toward 11's!

Reply #14 –
Yep.  Still chuggin along in the first eighth.

Work on that 1-2 and 2-3 shift... those times will drop drastically.

Great job though man.. wish mine was that fast. :)
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1984 Thunderbird V8