very disappointing night at the drags!!

[sperold]

If you pulled a 15.5 quarter and drove home afterwords, you had a pretty good night.

What you are forgetting is a lot of the 1960s / 1970s muscle cars did not turn better times than yours. And that is with over 400 cubic inches (yours is 183) and gobs of torque.

 

[RonPorter]

Yes that was the '96 MTX, not sure what else is done to it. I want to see his 60' times and trap speeds too.

My best run was 15.337 e/t, 2.450 60', 93.75 mph. The car has a SHO Source equal-length catted y-pipe, a SHO Shop in-fender CAI, and I just put in Konis/SS Linears and ALSFB (still need to do front strut rod bushings) and a Southbend Stage 2 with a stock flywheel (which replaced a Spec disc and Fidanza fw).





There was another V running. Not a new one though.

With that trap speed, you are about a half-second above what it could do.

 

[jmpSHO2nd]

If you pulled a 15.5 quarter and drove home afterwords, you had a pretty good night.

What you are forgetting is a lot of the 1960s / 1970s muscle cars did not turn better times than yours. And that is with over 400 cubic inches (yours is 183) and gobs of torque.

I know but I am still disappointed, I thought these cars ran 15.5 stock and not that I have crazy mods but I have some and I honestly thought it would be in the low 15s or just maybe 14.9, that was my goal. I wish I could say that I had traction issues but I didn't.

 

[somedude_001]

maybe if you tried to trick the car into thinking it had a turbo by making turbo noises while going down the track it would help. That is what I use to do and it worked.

 

[sperold]

Pick a day where you have cooler temperatures (50s or 60s) and you will reach your goal without any further modifications.
Not having traction problems is a very good thing.
If you could lower your tire diameter, you might benefit by using a little more rpm through the traps, but you might develop traction problems too.

 

[somedude_001]

the ATX sho does not have traction problems unless you run a garbage tire. **** I ran 205/65/15's on my turbo ATX and I am confident I would have ran 12's like that.