Here is my theory on why and how I've gone faster over the past two years. When I 1st ran I just showed up in street trim, no race/pump gas mix , did not ice, did not reset ecu before running, I did not air up the front tires and I was trying to launch at to high of an rpm with under inflated rear tires

Fast forward two years I do all of those things that I didnt do before but the biggest thing now is that on street tires you have to launch carefully or you will spin, so on all of my trips to the strip I've had to be careful and now that I have drag radials I am slowly gaining the confidence that they will hook up allowing me to get into the gas MUCH quicker than ever before resulting in quicker and faster times. Since adding drag radials I've gone 2.45mph faster and .31 seconds quicker in the quarter.

and that's my theory!

Mine is lacking in complexity in the fact that
1) the car was bought new and has less miles then most 2010 E63s.
2) the car has been in the rain just once so it's more aerodynamic and lacks the extra weight from all that nasty global warming acid rain!
3) you took to heart the saying, if you ain't first you're last!
4) it's an AMG remember they called it a beast it's not a nickname drivers gave it!
5) It's German built, end of story

no he ran 117 once while we were at our cars and against me on my bad run that I mentioned early he only ran 13.6@115

Still not impressed, I want to be I like the car and want it to be fast. Maybe I'm being too picky on the car that it seems bad to me. I just see videos of the car pulling hard on some fast ones yet it wasn't picking up that much. Maybe it shines past the 1/4? Either way I hope the guy had fun with his family watching and wasn't *****ing like we were about the little things haha!

maybe he heatsoaked it because he ran quite a few runs. you know he was most likely thinking "Damn I should have bought a E55"

Thx Cahiil, I'm going to take a break and wait until Jan 9th to go back out!


Thx Mo for the kind words I will try for a new goal (11.73) If we would have had that slight Sacramento tail wind (yesterday there was none) I may have hit that goal yesterday

My Friend Jack,

We all knew you were close, it would take a better launch and some luck with the air.

Jack you are maticulous, a true enthusiast who stays with a plan and executes masterfully.

I learned a lesson from you on 12/05/2009. I continue to admire your determination and forward thinking. You are not stuck in a box and have done alot to optimize the car in stock form.

It took A LONG TIME,

BUT


YOU DID IT

Thx Josh, funny as it sounds but I believe I can go quicker why not

Yes you can go a bit quicker.. your 60 ft can come down .1 which should get you to 11.6

HAHAHAHAH SEE YOU SOON

wow your close to beating my time with a stock car....there is def something wrong with my tracks speed sensor.

1.72 60' (PB) / 1.713 60ft
4.917 (PB) / 4.770
7.570 1/8 mile et. (PB) / 7.345
93.705 1/8 mile speed / 94.49
11.76 (PB & New Record) / 11.528
121.40 117.06

Don't worry Hammer beats stage1 and stage2 cars on the same track on the same day. Your car is still quite a bit quicker but without the trap speeds. Do you really care that much about the trap speeds? Trap speeds don't win races, lower ET's and RT's do. Are you really that caught up in trap speed or is there a point you're trying to make? I'm just curious because I remember you making a similar comment in regards to Hammer's trap speeds in a different post . Just let it go and who cares what car traps faster, I don't. I would much rather have a quicker ET than a higher trap speed...IMO. Look at blackbenz, he holds the 55 record with a 125 mph trap but yet never complains about it. You want to know why, because he owns the quickest title and that's what 1/4 mile racing is about. If you want to measure HP try doing a 60-130 run with a performance box and we could really see who's faster up top. I'm not sure if you meant for your post to be sarcastic or not but that't the way I read into it and if not I apologize.

Everyone seems to act like we're some type of professionals when in reality this all over a Internet trophy..... Me personally, I do it to have fun and don't really care who's faster from other parts of the country. I just care about getting to the track and running my own PB's and trying to advance my skills as a driver.


Good luck with your times and I hope one day you end up with the trap speeds you want or need.

i was giving him props,he is almost at 11.5 and i have like 6k into my car thats all

Hammer- Congrats on your great accomplishment! That car is movin bro. What else do you need in a 4 door wagon?.

Out of curiosity, have you corrected your times to sea level? If you could post your times or give me the link I'm curious to see what your time correct down to. If you're racing at a track at a higher elevation than Sac that would automatically put you at a huge disadvantage. The only way to really compare cars through out the country is correcting times to sea level....IMO.

I was just going threw my time slips,that was done on aug 21.Im looking up the track and temp ect.

the track is 90ft above sea level and my DA for that run was 2008,corrected on drag times would be

11.262 119.89
11.363 118.89
11.434 118

If corrected down to sea level your car is really a beast and the ET's aren't even close when compared to Hammer's runs . We ran in -200- -400 DA that day but with high humidity.

might of been a little higher probably closer to 2200,it was about 85 with about 63% humidity

the temp was droping quick it went from 87 to 83 in an hour and I ran in between that hour so I would guess it was about 85 when I ran

is there a way to take my times da and compare it to say -200?

If you could please give me the date and time of the run and I'll calculate the info.

Thx Jody, I dont think I'm done yet?? there might be a little left in her oh btw I have a sedan, I think you knew that???


Thanks Skratch, even if you ran 11.5 here at Sac I am still a loooonng way from reaching your time. I think the best my car has in it at that track is 11.6x and EVERYTHING would have to be perfect to hit that type of number. My goal has always been to try and equal or beat Enzom's amazing run. I've thought about modding my car so many times but I believe our cars have enough power but traction has always been the issue. I thought that if I address that issue 1st I could really see what the car was capable of running. You can have all the hp in the world but it doesn't mean jack if you can't put it down. My new goal is (11.73) I need to practice my 60' and only time will tell!

What mods do you have?

congrats on ur new PB..... but i dont get how ur car runs the times and traps ur getting it doesn't make since to me at all . and not trying to be rude or anything like that or ruin what u have done here but just trying to get it is all .. thanks

I honeslty think you can hit 11.5,maybe try running it with really low gas and take the spare tire out ect.

I have 180 pulley,H/E,tune,filters and an 82mmTB about to get installed.

ps the date time ect was aug 21 6:22pm at new england drags

Could you be more specific on what doesn't make sense to you? If you look at his splits everything adds up in the ET's except for Hammer having a higher trap. When questioning the run you should explain your points instead of saying that doesn't make sense.

I can't explain it either, the DA was ok but there was a bit of moisture in the air.... If Max ever comes up to Sac and we have some good weather I believe he could run the same et and most likely the same or close to the same trap! Some stock cars are just faster than others and of course the drivers have quite a bit to do with it as well. I actually study video of my launches to see how can I improve them.

If were to do a full mod makeover that would be just about what I would do except I would add headers!

Hey Skratch, I'm going to move this over to the thread Mo started. I corrected you time to using smokemup's calculations, IMO much better than dragtimes.

https://mbworld.org/forums/w211-amg/...on-thread.html