As some of you know our private track rental at Famoso has been postponed twice already due to equipment mal-function (the wires would short intermmitedly). So, earlier today I stopped by Famoso to talk to the manager or owner (close friend) to try to get the latest updates. He told me that he had already arranged for someone to come fix the problem on February 11th. Anyways, on my way out, I saw a couple of vipers (belonging to family friends I guess) that had just finished a couple of runs. I asked if I could do a quick run or two, and although the answer was "hell" no at first, after a couple of more tries (and a little convincing), I was allowed 2 runs. And this is where the fun part starts........

I was very happy with my first run, but after my second pass, I realize it was nothing. On my first run, I ran a 12.387 @ 114.7 with a 1.91 60' time. Then on my second run, my car behaved very differently. The car shifted very aggressively (very rough engagement) from 1st to 2nd, 2nd to 3rd and felt like it was pulling very hard. At first I thought I broke something since I was trying to launch more aggressively, but after seeing the timeslip all that was forgotten

Here are the results until I scan the slip later when I get home:

60' ---> 1.898
1/8th ---> 7.930
MPH ---> 90.93

1/4 Mile ---> 12.246 @ 115.64

This is a big improvement over my previous best at Fontana a couple of weeks ago of 12.35 @ 113.6 (piloted by Shawn). However, this run was done at 13 degrees cooler and at half the track elevation. I guess weather does help a lot Juicee......

Anyways, the west coast fastest E63 is now almost 0.1 seconds away from the east coast's fastest E63 and closing......

By the way, I floored the car a couple of times on the street after that incident and the transmission shifted smoothly again as if nothing happened. Did I do something bad to the transmission Or was this just an ECU freak adaptation? And how can I get that aggressive shifting again

 

WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!

Timeslip please sir!

Wow. it must be cold out!

 

Here you go...........

 

Amazing run, I think your car was picking up just fine, I love the splits they are the fastest I have seen this side of the Mason Dixon.

Well now what???

12.09@116 is what I had figured max for your car stock..
dam near hit it, great run see you soon..

 

Nice!
Time to step up my game for march

 

 

Great pass there MB. Keep it up the 63's are getting faster.


Robert

 

Thanks........

DA was reported between 150 to 200 ft, which for us here is probably the best we can get and my car was reading temp to be 55 F. If my time is corrected to -1200 ft (aka Atco), then my 12.2 drops to 12.0 @ 117 mph

So we're definately very close to breaking into the 11s

 

You and Gixxer are definately neck in neck...This is really hard, but man this is a hard sport.

I do not think many people realize how difficult squeezing off a 12.2 in a 4200 lb car is on street tires!!! I just came back form getting my A** kicked all part of the lesson..

Great run man I still am shaking my head, your 12.34 pass was incredible, this is truly a big jump and its going to be a great challenge to go sub 12 but it looks like somebody that is a member here is going to do it.. I see Venom and Gixxer are attending the March meet @ Atco, very very exciting

 

Great run, it sounds to me like she is getting faster!

 

You also have huge potential for the sub 12 pass as your car ran incredibly on a very crappy track. Wish you would head back to sac and attempt to improve on your IMO West coasts fastest (stock)55. We gotta push Enzom to keep his car and continue to lower the bar!!!or is this raising the bar?

 

http://www.dragtimes.com/compare2.ph...ame=Compare%21

Man two 63's on page one now!!!! A W E S O M E run MO

 

Dude how did you do this???????????????? I want more details.How do the splits look to your other runs, YOU ARE A CHAMPION NOW and this is an amazing pass in the supposedly SLOW 63

 

Sorry Juicee for not responding earlier, I was out of town for the last couple of days. Yeah this was definately an amazing run. Aside from the 60' time, all other stats on this run are my best. And as I mentioned before, Shawn (somehow) pulled a 1.87 60' time at Fontana. I'm sure if he would've ran my car at Famoso that day, I would've been in the 12.00s

 

The 60' time is what seems to be the biggest challenge.The first person to get a 1.7x short time in an E will be quite impressed with the end result

 

these E class cars 60 pretty badly, i wonder if the electronic torque limitations are coming into play on launch? I can 60 low 1.60's all day and a 1.57 is my shortest time and I dont think it has anything to do with the power Im making

 

I think it has to do with the tt's ability to pre-load the converter a lot more therefore raising the stall. Not so sure about the tcu anymore on an e55.

 

Albert, so what would you suggest to do to bring my 60' time down on the 63? It is so hard to lower the 60' time that even when it does happen once, it is becomes a fluke

I've launched my car so many times at so many tracks but was only able to break the 1.8 once. Even if you take Juicee's best 60' time of 1.69, you'll see that out of thousands and thousands of times, he was only able to do that once.

We need to somehow figure out a systematic technique to improve the 63 (all models) 60' time

 

Oldgixxer, how are you able to get 1.8 60' times so consistently?

 

I spoke with a national champion Viper driver today..He has some great ideas . He was very cool. First thing he confirmed was the wasted HP lifting the front and setting her down. He said definately run the car raised. The reason the drag radial and street tires are similar is because they are similar!!

We measured the softness of rubber my tire was harder than a stret tire, he was suprised I hooked ever.. A ps2 is softer than the conti and my cup, the way to 60 better is to prevent wasted movement in the chasis and tires. The street set up likely can produce 1.70's but it will require better weight trans and jerking the car out vs lifting out. Mr. Larson pointed out a jerk is much quicker than a lift, the car will have no where to go but out vs up if raised. A 15" rim with a true slick and a driveshaft loop would perhaps allow 1.50's but it would slow the trap.

We did some calculations after my dyno.
My best run attainable in my car with my gearing is 11.85....He thinks I can bust off low 1.60's with a soft tire and raised up. so a drag radial has very similar properties as the PS2.

 

I think you have the magic touch man. The one time you did your magic on my tires I pulled a 1.667 60' and made my best pass ever lol

Are you guys running drag radials???

 

No, Mo is on PS2

He is getting famous, LOL

http://www.rs6.com/forum/showthread.php?p=116364

 

What do you expect from master PO..This guy is the BEST, he has created a West Coast Monster however.......................................when you guys coming to LA????Dam I love it , I absolutely Love the fact that Gixxer has some real comp. The fact any Benz all motor can run mid 11's high 10's and 60 ft under 1.70's is UNREAL.

The nine second Viper was running the same 60fts as Jay...LOL...Thats ridiculous, he has a true slick and just a littlemore HP and a light r car.



Feb 24th we are goingto hit 11 seconds in the 63,

 

Badly relative to you ,

looks like we need a JW Launch DVD

 

Juicee, so you're saying next time I should raise the car and power brake as much as I can in order to get a better 60' time?