1/2 mile guess vs actual

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[Yaj Yak]

 

[Smokinhot]

I was hoping for 130, or to beat/match my truck. I got it on the last run of the day after hot lapping. Stupid I know, but my IAT's dropped 25° by doing it.

Truck last year went 125.04 and the car went 125.55

 

[willizm]

Ok. So you're at the 1/4 mile track, you get a perfect launch and go 11.5@120. Next run, you spin off the line and go 12.8, but your mph increases.... why?

FWIW that seems to happen to me. When i spin more I trap a little higher with a worse et. If I deadhook the launch my ET is great but my MPH is lower.

 

[Mook]

FWIW x2, I dont think there is anything wrong with Dans car. The other two 500s, aside from their sole (to my knowledge, [MENTION=669]shockerracing.com[/MENTION] & [MENTION=5219]ZXMustang[/MENTION], correct me on that) 151 passes, both were in the 140s all weekend. I think it really just came down to whos car was getting hotter. Dans intake temps were through the roof at certain points and all us blower or former blower guys know how hard that can hit a car.

He ran the blue 500 on the highway and they were dead nuts even to the point of almost plowing thru the back of me

I chalk up any disappointing runs to the heat and humidity.

 

[PANDA]

GT500 10's stock on a tire.

 

[Mook]

Like I said tho, my problem was in the launch. These stock guys were leaving on LC @ it's lowest setting of 3k and spinning (which seemed like it was required). My car was almost too hooked up and was bogging out of the hole. Basically, my computer was slowing me down for "clutch protection."

More here:
GT500 + Drag Radials + Sticky Track=#%#%

Clutch Protection Issues?

Clutch protection? What the fucking gay? Ford

 

[Yaj Yak]

 

[Eagle]

Clutch protection? What the fucking gay? Ford

True story. At least I know Lund now accounts for it in their tunes

So in Oct, I won't be able to use this as my excuse!

 

[Mook]

 

[Yaj Yak]

were there any "more serious" 5.0's there? any forced induction ones that is... or doin' anything awesome?

 

[Mook]

There was an earlier gen GT500 but I have no clue what he ran. The orange 500 from our promo video in 2012 was also there...but I dont have times on that either.

 

[Yaj Yak]

There was an earlier gen GT500 but I have no clue what he ran. The orange 500 from our promo video in 2012 was also there...but I dont have times on that either.

I meant Coyote cars, sorry.

 

[Mook]

No, that was my bad. You said 5.0

 

[Mr Cobra]

I'm the blue Shelby. I'll settle this....

Eagle's car is just as fast as mine. I ran 151, 147, 147, 148.

He had his front splitter on. I did not.

He had drag radials. I did not.

I had a catch can. He did not.

They weren't set up EXACTLY the same, hence they didn't run exactly the same.

Heat soak was probably a major factor too. His color absorbs more sunlight and therefore gets hotter. It's not like they ran that far off from eachother.

This is the first I'm hearing of another 13-14 Shelby besides me and Eagle...

Also, I was expecting to be around 150 mph and I think it was pretty much on the money.

 

[Mook]

There was another black 2014 there on Saturday.

 

[syP]

I'm the blue Shelby. I'll settle this....

Eagle's car is just as fast as mine. I ran 151, 147, 147, 148.

He had his front splitter on. I did not.

He had drag radials. I did not.

I had a catch can. He did not.

They weren't set up EXACTLY the same, hence they didn't run exactly the same.

Heat soak was probably a major factor too. His color absorbs more sunlight and therefore gets hotter. It's not like they ran that far off from eachother.

This is the first I'm hearing of another 13-14 Shelby besides me and Eagle...

Also, I was expecting to be around 150 mph and I think it was pretty much on the money.

I drove past ya on the highway on the way home... (see sig)

 

[Mook]

Oh and hey, congrats on your 3rd post

 

[Eagle]

I'm the blue Shelby. I'll settle this....

Eagle's car is just as fast as mine. I ran 151, 147, 147, 148.

He had his front splitter on. I did not.

He had drag radials. I did not.

I had a catch can. He did not.

They weren't set up EXACTLY the same, hence they didn't run exactly the same.

Heat soak was probably a major factor too. His color absorbs more sunlight and therefore gets hotter. It's not like they ran that far off from eachother.

This is the first I'm hearing of another 13-14 Shelby besides me and Eagle...

Also, I was expecting to be around 150 mph and I think it was pretty much on the money.

I expected 150 out of mine, but didn't get there. I fully blame it on the increased traction I have with the BMR setup, the tire and the copperhead clutch protection strategy... if people want to believe it or not!

Either way, I was happy to see a couple stock GT500's tap the 151mph mark. I'll be using that for my baseline when I come back in October ready to see what she'll do with a few little mods.

 

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Totally doesn't make any sense at all If you said heat, yea, I believe that 100%. Hottest supercharged outlet temps ever. But because of too much traction?

 

[Eagle]

Totally doesn't make any sense at all If you said heat, yea, I believe that 100%. Hottest supercharged outlet temps ever. But because of too much traction?

Did you read ANY of the clutch protection links? Its the computer pulling power, not the traction. The additional traction is causing the computer to pull power from my car that it wouldn't do to the cars with stock tires.

 

[Yaj Yak]

Like I said tho, my problem was in the launch. These stock guys were leaving on LC @ it's lowest setting of 3k and spinning (which seemed like it was required). My car was almost too hooked up and was bogging out of the hole. Basically, my computer was slowing me down for "clutch protection."

More here:
GT500 + Drag Radials + Sticky Track=#%#%

Clutch Protection Issues?

Totally doesn't make any sense at all If you said heat, yea, I believe that 100%. Hottest supercharged outlet temps ever. But because of too much traction?

[MENTION=517]10sec[/MENTION] read that

 

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Did you read ANY of the clutch protection links? Its the computer pulling power, not the traction. The additional traction is causing the computer to pull power from my car that it wouldn't do to the cars with stock tires.

I'm trollin'

 

[Pressure Ratio]

That would effect your point a to point b time, not your MPH though. .

It was for Eagle but you posted before I finished

For reals though, the launch doesn't effect the MPH, just the ET. .

Ok. So you're at the 1/4 mile track, you get a perfect launch and go 11.5@120. Next run, you spin off the line and go 12.8, but your mph increases.... why?

I don't think that is true at all. I know it does in 1/4 mile racing. I would imagine it would so the same in a 1/2 mile. I see guys running street tires and being inconsistent with their launch. They spin and the ET comes up bu the MPH goes up. It has to do with wheel speed and more engine RPM through the 1/4. It is weird but happens. There is a difference in slight spinning, getting the wheel speed up and getting into the power band sooner versus frying the tires killing ET and MPH. Bogging can kill ET and MPH.

Last year my car was exactly like at the drag strip. First off rolling the car out and hitting it down track shortens the track. This reduces potential for a higher mph. Leaving hard with limiting the wheel spin let the car accelerate quicker making the most of the 1/2 mile.

FWIW x2, I dont think there is anything wrong with Dans car. The other two 500s, aside from their sole (to my knowledge, [MENTION=669]shockerracing.com[/MENTION] & [MENTION=5219]ZXMustang[/MENTION], correct me on that) 151 passes, both were in the 140s all weekend. I think it really just came down to whos car was getting hotter. Dans intake temps were through the roof at certain points and all us blower or former blower guys know how hard that can hit a car.

He ran the blue 500 on the highway and they were dead nuts even to the point of almost plowing thru the back of me

I chalk up any disappointing runs to the heat and humidity.

Heat is a killer to making power. More so to a forced induction car than a n/a set up. The stock blower produces a lot of heat. That is why those Killer Chillers are big in the 03/04 Cobra crowd. It works great at reducing the inlet temps.

Clutch protection? What the fucking gay? Ford

All cars have that shit now a days in one form or another. All part of the torque management systems. Easy to get around when you have a tuner that knows what he is doing. Took Lund a while to get it all figured out. I think he has a handle on it now.

Totally doesn't make any sense at all If you said heat, yea, I believe that 100%. Hottest supercharged outlet temps ever. But because of too much traction?

I think Dan is making excuses with "Too much traction". He doesn't have the seat time to know how to launch the car with out traction control, while launching as hard as he car with out spinning like crazy. Which is not easy on a drag radial. Give him some time and he will be complaining about not enough traction and too much powa! haha

 

[1quick]

I need mo pah