Made it to the track last night.

[hoopty5.0]

I rarely get to run the car with work and all, but I made it last night to Houston Raceway Park. Well, me and 10,000,000,000 other people. I got there at 7:30 and left at 10:30 and only got 2 runs. All other time was spent in the staging lanes waiting...

Keep in mind, this is a stock motor with a B cam and long tubes. 3.73s in the rear and street tires.

Run 1: Spun, had to peddle first gear and shifted around 5K:

R/T: .251 (alseep)
60' : 2.118
330: 5.905
1/8: 9.046
1/4: 13.998
MPH: 99.7

Run 2: Hooked, shifted around 6K:

R/T : .179 (still sleeping)
60' : 2.083
330: 5.877
1/8: 9.027
1/4: 13.992
MPH: 97.69

I think this shows that with a good launch on some DRs that I could squeeze a 13.50 or better out of it. Gotta make use of every bit of the low end because the E7s choke at the high end of the track. It was everything I could do to stay ahead of the Duramax on the 2nd run bentley429isBAC

 

[NIKwoaC]

That's about how a night of racing goes for me at my local track, you are lucky to get 1 run/hour.

Decent times considering the setup!

 

[need4spd90]

that thing would make a killer bracket car with passes that consistent lol
mid 13's easy with tires

 

[hoopty5.0]

that thing would make a killer bracket car with passes that consistent lol
mid 13's easy with tires

Maybe. I used to race Street Stock at a local track about 6 years ago when I was in High School. This was my second time back to the track since. I used to cut .01 lights consistently, and would need many, many more passes to get my lights down to be competitive in a bracket. Still, not a bad night though. 3rd gear synchro is on its way out too...

 

[bentley429isBAC]

You can tag people on stangnet now, holy smokes this is getting to be like facespace way to much now. Have a hard enough time with that.

 

[txstang84]

that thing would make a killer bracket car with passes that consistent lol
mid 13's easy with tires

+1...was thinkin the same thing. Get your tranny fixed, put on some good tires and start sending guys home early...

 

[hoopty5.0]

+1...was thinkin the same thing. Get your 408 in, tranny fixed, put on some good tires and start sending guys home early...

Fixed.

 

[RangerJoe]

I rarely get to run the car with work and all, but I made it last night to Houston Raceway Park. Well, me and 10,000,000,000 other people. I got there at 7:30 and left at 10:30 and only got 2 runs. All other time was spent in the staging lanes waiting...

Keep in mind, this is a stock motor with a B cam and long tubes. 3.73s in the rear and street tires.

Run 1: Spun, had to peddle first gear and shifted around 5K:

R/T: .251 (alseep)
60' : 2.118
330: 5.905
1/8: 9.046
1/4: 13.998
MPH: 99.7

Run 2: Hooked, shifted around 6K:

R/T : .179 (still sleeping)
60' : 2.083
330: 5.877
1/8: 9.027
1/4: 13.992
MPH: 97.69

I think this shows that with a good launch on some DRs that I could squeeze a 13.50 or better out of it. Gotta make use of every bit of the low end because the E7s choke at the high end of the track. It was everything I could do to stay ahead of the Duramax on the 2nd run bentley429isBAC

Just out of curiosity, what was your mph at the 1/8 mile. I've not run 1/4 yet, only 1/8. Our 60fts are close and our 1/8 ET is the same. Just wondering about your speed at that point.

Joe

 

[hoopty5.0]

79.65 and 79.44 in the 1/8

 

[RangerJoe]

cool, thanks!

Joe

 

[Kdubslugga]

Pretty solid for all thats done! And dont worry about reaction time, doesnt count on test n tune anyway. Sometimes I purposely sit there for 1.5 -2.0 seconds... Needing to catch up makes me drive better!

 

[hoopty5.0]

I'm not worried about it, I just used to be able to cut a light and now.... well I guess "use it or lose it" is the saying, haha

Guess that means I need to race more?

 

[85_SS_302_Coupe]

Get your 60s down and it'll be an easy 13.5 car for sure.

 

[hoopty5.0]

I figured as much, but the world will never know. The 302 comes out tomorrow to make way for more cubes. Sad in a way, its like the passing of an era for me, hahahah

 

[Dmarstroker]

Good #'s for minimal mods

 

[5.0Droptop]

Drag radials will help some. The MPH tells me you wont see 13.5 with just drag radials.

I ran micky thompson drag rads and I ran [email protected] 1.82 60ft

 

[Sharad]

Not bad. I'd say 13.50s are in reach with sticky tires. (just need about a 1.80 60-foot)

 

[hoopty5.0]

Not bad. I'd say 13.50s are in reach with sticky tires. (just need about a 1.80 60-foot)

Yeah and maybe some rear suspension parts to compliment my complete UPR front end ***cough cough sponsorship cough cough***

 

[hoopty5.0]

Drag radials will help some. The MPH tells me you wont see 13.5 with just drag radials.

I ran micky thompson drag rads and I ran [email protected] 1.82 60ft

Well I also realized today as I was pulling the motor out that one of the vacuum ports on the tree by the brake booster was open. Might have cost me a few MPH and tenths

*Edit : Maybe I shouldn't post to the millions silly mistakes like that?

 

[5.0Droptop]

Well I also realized today as I was pulling the motor out that one of the vacuum ports on the tree by the brake booster was open. Might have cost me a few MPH and tenths

*Edit : Maybe I shouldn't post to the millions silly mistakes like that?

We all do dumb stuff.... I broke my thumb removing a 65mm tb spacer from my stock upper intake...