So I ran a 16 gauge wire from the battery to one of the screws holding the solenoid up, about 10 starts or so so far and, knock on wood, not a problem. Gotta scrounge up two more 1/4-20 bolts for the hood catch, put the gas door back on, and clear all the extra crap out of the interior and shes back on the road.
Yeah they float around pretty good. Make sure you do a good burnout and start around 13-15# pressure at the track. Should hook really well. I'd start off at 4500rpm launch and see what they do. If not to concerened about breaking you can go up from there. I would expect somewhere around 12.2-12.50's. It's a lot harder to get a radial to hook with a manual. I still could t get mine to with Nitto's(which obviously isn't the best radial).took the car to work today (finally), came home, and swapped these on:
took it for a drive, and i'll just say that next time, i'm going radial. they're balanced fine and i didnt have any problems, but they are a bit floaty. should launch pretty good though.
supposed to rain its ass off the next two days, but saturday is a long track day (opens at 10am for tnt/jr. drag, and then they moved friday's midnight madness to saturday cause of the forecast, so should be running till about 1am if its like 2 weeks ago). hoping it runs as fast or faster than the coyote, at the very least it will stick better.
You could sneak a shift light in there. One of those little led types. Hide it in a vent? Then just let it rip. I've had plenty of problems with 3rd over the years but haven't ever missed 2nd. Once you get everything adjusted and more seat time I still think you could hit 12.50's. You also could raise your launch rpm if your brave lol. I did 5500 once...the right rear axle shaft didn't like it(factory 28 splines). But my 2 cars liked 4500 and ran the same 60's as you're doing now. Made lots of passes that way. So I don't know if the axle breakage was just due to the one time shock or from the repeated abuse and finally decided to let go. I'm going with some 31 spline Mosers now also.4000-4500 dumping the clutch seemed to work pretty good, 3000 bogged a bit, 60's right in the 1.7 range. shifter is a pro 5.0, came with the trans.
i made 8 passes total, the 12.85 was the second one, and 2 12.9's and a 13.00 after i adjust the clutch higher to stop missing 2nd (which somehow i cannot get myself to powershift, maybe it just comes up too soon for me to react to it? dunno).
What's the highest rpm you've leaft at? Have you tried a 5-6k launch? Might break stuff but you should get some wheel speed high enough to get beyond a dead hook. curious why its not rpm'ing a little better. I always thought the TFS1 liked a 56-5800 rpm shift point. I know the e cam likes that range. Maybe a tune would help? If nothing else it sounds consistent.So 3 bits of news/updates:
1) was runner up in the factory efi class, which only happened because my opponent in the first round of eliminations broke second gear and i got a bye in the second (7 car field).
2) this tko shift issue SUCKS. Going to try pulling it tomorrow, inspect for worn parts (suspecting worn blocker rings and maybe a worn 2nd gear slider), and see about finding a set of carbon lined blockers. The faceplate idea looks like it would take too long, there's another class race Saturday. Even just putting new blockers may take too long, so I'm going to try to mount my prostar/et street setup on the coyote and use it as a backup points car.
3) car needs more power, especially in the upper rpms. shifting above 5500 makes my mph drop, and the car bogs on launch no matter what rpm i leave at (and im only doing 1.72x 60's dead hooking with no spin).