Well, I went up to GLD tonight to get a few baseline runs in. The car is a 2004 E55 with 64K, bone stock except for K&N filters the PO apparantly installed. I also have a CM30 I/C pump, but only because the stock one failed.

Hot off the street an hot lapping it, the car was very consistent and went a best of 12.35 @ 114 mph. It was cutting 1.82-1.85 60 foots and the 1/8th mile time was a 7.96 @ 89 mph. This is with 3/4 tank of gas, spare and everything in the trunk, and a 275 pound driver. The weather sucked too. It was about 76 degrees and pretty humid. I'm not sure what he DA was, but it was nowhere near sea level.

I am very, very pleased with the results, which is a first since I am usually disappointed every time I run a new car at the track. I ran the suspension in comfort mode and did a short burnout on the Falcons(not sure which ones). It was dead-hooking most of the runs, and MPH never varied more than .5 mph. The supercharger was so hot you could barely touch it, and I idled in the lanes forever between each run. Definitely not great condidions, but I can see how a cool car in good weather can easily break into the 11's.

The best run of the night was against a very nice Chevelle. The owner trailered it in. Definitely had a decent big-block with big-n-littles and huge slicks out back. I believe it was a man-trans car. We lined up and I had him out of the hole and pulled him by about 3 lengths. By the time I got back in the grandstands he had it back on the trailer and was heading out. I don't think he was too happy with the results, though the couple times I saw it run it seemed to be performing fine. I guess getting your trailered car beat by a hot-lapped car right off the street wasn't his cup of tea.

 

Great job! It's always nice beating them trailered vehicles with our grocery getters . BTW...nice 60' times with them street tires.

 

Thanks! It seemed to work the same footbraking versus leaving from idle. On about 3 runs I did get some spin/hop, and still cut 2.0 60's. This is why I always run with a good bit of gas in the tank. I think 1.80's are the best these tires could have done with the available traction. At first I was wishing for more torque since it was dead-hooking, but as the evening wore on the track prep went away a bit and then it came back at the end. I tried launching the car about 5 different ways, and footbraking to ~1,200 rpm, releasing the brake, and letting it jump/roll about a foot before matting it seemed to work the best. It seems like the ETC takes a second to open the TB to WOT no matter what you do.

 

Did you warm the tires in the water box?

 

I tried using the water box, short burnouts, long burnouts, and dry burnouts. I think the best results were from a short(3 second) dry burnout in front of the water box. There is absolutely no need to get street tires wet. These cars make enough torque to get them spinning!