Drag results after LET tune
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Drag results after LET tune
Best time before tune 13.88 @ 102.43 2.13 60' 17 May 08
Best time after tune 13.60 @ 102.89 2.06 60' 4 July 08
Close to the same conditions but a little warmer tonight.
4400+ elevation
Best time after tune 13.60 @ 102.89 2.06 60' 4 July 08
Close to the same conditions but a little warmer tonight.
4400+ elevation
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you will never put down a good time at 4000+ feet. I bet you will be more than surprised at your results on a cool night at lower elevation. Cool night at even 1000ft you will be putting down some fast times.
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Cool man! There was a couple quick cars at the midnight's but mostly 14-15 seconds cars. Also a guy in a Mallet 435 Corvette(500hp) that I overheard talking down on my car. I never did see what he ran but man I wish I had the HP to call him out and shut him up.
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Well I didn't join the 12 sec club last try but was pretty close. Will try the advise other have left me as well as let others run my car to see their results on my car and learn the better launching techniques. Its not that the car has an issue making the 12s its just the owner has a problem running the car properly to hit 12s. Good run for your elevation!
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I saw a couple Mallets running at Great Lakes last year, and they were running low 14s, trapping 100-102. I was trapping in the 114's on pump gas with my SRT the same day, so it wasn't a bad DA. Just goes to show that a bad driver can make any car slow. You never know until you run one.
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I dunno I googled a Mallet and it showed high 11's low to mid 12's. However give him a run, you got nothing to lose, he owns an after market tunned vette, you own a four door C Class 
. If you win his woman will jump into your car like in the movies 
JK, but if I had a vette driver talk crap bout my car, I'd run him even tho his car was faster.
. If you win his woman will jump into your car like in the movies JK, but if I had a vette driver talk crap bout my car, I'd run him even tho his car was faster.
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I dunno I googled a Mallet and it showed high 11's low to mid 12's. However give him a run, you got nothing to lose, he owns an after market tunned vette, you own a four door C Class . If you win his woman will jump into your car like in the movies
JK, but if I had a vette driver talk crap bout my car, I'd run him even tho his car was faster.
. If you win his woman will jump into your car like in the movies JK, but if I had a vette driver talk crap bout my car, I'd run him even tho his car was faster.
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I dunno I googled a Mallet and it showed high 11's low to mid 12's. However give him a run, you got nothing to lose, he owns an after market tunned vette, you own a four door C Class . If you win his woman will jump into your car like in the movies
JK, but if I had a vette driver talk crap bout my car, I'd run him even tho his car was faster.
. If you win his woman will jump into your car like in the movies JK, but if I had a vette driver talk crap bout my car, I'd run him even tho his car was faster.
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The ECU freaks out when you hit the brake+gas. My best power-brake time is 1.79 (Drag Radials) versus 1.67 leaving at 1200 RPM (street tires.)
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I want to hit 13.50's this year. And next year it will be the quest for 12's.
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So true, I made that mistake when I did the Lexus drive event for the new IS400F. I tried to "power brake the car" and the engineer told me that on ALL cars that screws up the ECU. The ECU can't recognize a brake and accelerator at the same time and what it then does is shut down the "gas" since braking gets priority. Once I stopped that, times improved dramatically on the car over the autocross course.
On the web, there's a guy who runs 10.85 at 129.00 (fastest stock Z06 in the world) in a totally stock Z06. Find that and he's got some great tips for running the quarter. One thing he does mention is NOT hammering it right off the line (you'll go up in smoke). Looks cool but does nothing for times. If you know you WONT spin, then by all means, hammer it, BUT if spinning is an issue, which it is with my C32, then I tap (to get the revs up a bit) and then go.
He also says "go around the water trough" since all that does is get the rear and front tires wet and the rears follow the fronts and get wet from the fronts. He backs the rears into the water and then lights them up without the fronts getting wet at all. All is good advice.
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