going to the track tomorrow night

Gonna try again tomorrow night and head on out to the track again...let's hope the rain holds off....20% chance tomorrow, 40% chance tomorrow night....:rolleyes: (why can't mother nature do this **** during the work week, so I can play and have fun on my weekend????)
 
alright so I'm gonna try and launch around 2400-2600 rpm, and go on the final yellow light, and try my shifts around 5500 rpm, and see what my results are. i will definitely weigh less than I did at bowling green 2 weeks ago, so that should definitely help.
 
if you shift at 6k you power has already dropped off. your peak power and tourque is around 5450- 5000. mixed breed i think your times should be pretty good as long as the rain holds up. i ran a 14.14 @ 98 shifting at like 5900 and havent been to the track to test my new sgift points but i had 6 people on stangnet telling me to shift at 5450.
 
well I'm very disappointed with the drag strip we call The Hill, here in Nashville. I had never been there before tonight, and it was very poorly organized, they had no one telling you where to go, what races were going, and when the announcer did speak, he was talking while cars were running, so you could hardly hear what he was saying.

About 3 or 4 times, I was lined up in the wrong pre-stage lanes, for the wrong events.

I had no idea on the Gamblers race, so I just lined up and then I start to stage and some guy is like you didnt pay, and I'm like no one told me to pay, so he's like go on down the track and get out of the way.

biggest waste of $15 and a half a tank of gas. I'm heading out to Nashville Superspeedway next friday night, and then the weekend after that I think I will try Etheridge and see how their track is.

anyways, here's my times, not so good, couldnt seem to get it to hook up, but I think these worthless BFG T/A KD's i have on the back are about gone...time to order the Nitto's in about 2-3 weeks.

Not really happy with my times, but I am pretty pleased with my 2nd run Reaction Time...gotta work on that a little bit more.

Since it was a new track that I had never been to and I didn't know where to go it was really awkward, and I was having trouble know where to go and when to be where at the right time. Plus that was my first time running nights, not making excuses, I just sucked ass big time.

R/T - .5618
60' - 2.3450
330 - 6.3211
594' - 8.9581
1/8 - 9.5401 @ 77.31 mph

R/T - .1200
60' - 2.4332
330' - 6.4589
594' - 9.1660
1/8 - 9.7602 @ 75.73 mph

R/T - .3949
60' - 3.0291
330' - 7.1592
594' - 9.8442
1/8 - 10.4332 @ 76.40 mph

R/T - .4449
60' - 2.4470
330' - 6.4949
594' - 9.1573
1/8th - 9.7420 @ 76.95 mph

I'm not so sure I like this 1/8th mile stuff, I need my 1/4 mile, can't wait to get back up to Bowling Green. Sure wish someone would build a nice 1/4 mile track here in Nashville.
 
don't worry about reaction time, learn to drive your car at the track first.

You need to be shifting your car between 5800-6000rpms.
 
been told by a guy with a 1400 hp Mustang running mid 8's that I should be shifting at 5400-5500 rpm...so I'm gonna take his advice and do just that.

5400-5500 is where my horsepower peaks at so that's where I'm gonna shift at.

Unless there is a physical reason that your engine can not rev pass peak HP then you will run faster by revving pass peak HP. How high you should rev depends on the shape of the HP curve and how far the RPM's drop when you shift gears.
 
dont worry about your reactions times yet man first work on the 60'. reaction times will come once you drop that down and get comfortable. otherwise you are trying to hit a good reaction and pop the clutch out too fast and you spin.

and keep goin to the 1/8th mile you dont need a 1/4. you gotta get past an 1/8th mile to complete a 1/4. without a good 1/8th your 1/4 wont be good either. just work on the start race your own race dont worry about the guy next to you.