New best times

[yellow77]

Took old sharky to the track on friday night. The track surface temp was 117 degrees and so was pretty sticky. She rewarded me with the following numbers:


R/T .184
60' 2.023
330 5.445
1/8 8.275
MPH 86.93
1000 10.716
1/4 12.786
MPH 108.86


Correcting for the DA of 3700, leaves a sea level 12.2 ish.
Nice to think these older cars can teach the new stuff a thing or two.

Cheers

Richard

 

[DRTH VTR]

Very fine run! It would be a good race between you and my Z06.

 

[yellow77]

Thanks Drth, I was very pleased with the run, as far as street tire cars, I was the fastest out there that night, it was a great feeling.


Richard

 

[DRTH VTR]

Thanks Drth, I was very pleased with the run, as far as street tire cars, I was the fastest out there that night, it was a great feeling.


Richard

You would be pretty quick for a street driven car at my track, too. Neither one of us would be the fastest, however. There is a Viper and some ricers that run faster. There are also some street legal cars that I suspect only rarely see the street.

I ran a couple of 12.6 @ 113 last Friday night. It was "abouve 6000ft DA" according to the announcer.

 

[yellow77]

Wow, with a DA that high, those are some very fine times. I still get a kick out of people calling a 14 second street car slow. They live in a world of their own. My son was running 13.8s in his GTA, and I consider his car pretty quick.

Cheers

Richard

 

[OldSkool]

Wow, those are great times! Congrats!

I bet alot of people there were surprised to see you run that fast. Seems strange to call a Vette a sleeper, but when I, and probably most people think of late 70's vettes, 16 second 1/4 miles come to mind. I bet "Holy crap!" was muttered more than once in the stands when you ran.

Oh and yeah, 13.8 IS pretty quick for a GTA. I had one, an 88 with the L98 350 (some came with 305's), and the best I ran was 14.9. @ around 90mph if I remember correctly. I had a few simple mods, but it had over 100k on it at the time and was in need of a good tune-up. A 13.8 is very respectable, it'll give a stock or amaturely driven LS1 a good run for it's money, and most likely beat most non-Cobra 'Stangs.

So I know what you mean about 14 seconds being "slow". I wouldn't brag about a 14 second car, but I wouldn't call it slow either. My just barely 14 second GTA felt pretty fast to me. Gotta love that L98 torque.

Just curious, and I know it's off topic, but what year is the GTA and what kind of mods does he have?

 

[Glensgages]

It was "above 6000ft DA" according to the announcer.

The Density Altitude last week at Bandimere (Denver) for the Mopar Mile-High Nationals was in-excess of 9800'.....

 

[yellow77]

Hi Oldskool, he has all the free mods including hot water bypass, ported plenum cold air intake, and runs 14.9's all day. the 13.8 was with an extra 100 hp in a bottle. He has an L98 also.


Cheers

Richard

 

[OldSkool]

Oh ok, cool. Gotta love HP in a bottle. I wonder if my Grand Cherokee would like a 100hp shot? :L

The GTA sounds like my car, I did all the free modes too. Advanced timing, ported the plenum w/a Dremel, removed the MAF screens, cut holes in the air filter can for more airflow and was also running underdrive pulleys. They're fun cars, I miss mine.

Mike