Too many mods... Not enough results?

[screaminr1]

Ok, here begins the meltdown. I have installed 390 gears,prochamber exhaust with 2 chamber flows(no cats),long tube headers,accufab plenum and 75mm throttle body,intake spacer,throttle body spacer,cold air intake,pro 5.0 shifter,18" saleens with 305 nitto dr out back,steeda clutch cable and qaudrant,and I won't start on the cosmetic mods. Point? I went to the track for the first time and on the motor I ran a 14.5 flat at 95mph. I also have 100 shot wet kit and ran 13.46 at 105mph. This is horrible. Off the bottle I am being beat by stock mustangs. I know you might say it's the driver but I had a .056 reaction time on the motor and .068 on the nitrous. I am told this is very good. The only thing I know left to do is add a pro m 85mm mass air flow sensor, which will be here on Thursday. I will let you know but in the mean while, besides needing a tuning what the @!$&* is the problem? Why am I out thousands of dollars and slower?

 

[JonJon]

how about the other info
60'
1/8th
mph
etc

 

[GTn00b]

was this was your first time at the track? if thats the case you just need lots of practice, your not gonna make your best runs first time out. There's alot of things that can factor in, your elevation, humidity, etc

 

[screaminr1]

reaction 60' 330' 1/8 mph 1/4 mph

on the motor 0.5787 2.27 6.13 9.40 75.71 14.50 95.39

on the bottle 0.6284 2.21 5.86 8.84 83.44 13.46 105.53

 

[streetstang03]

what year is your stang??

 

[GTn00b]

are your rears slicks or the street tire? kinda looks like traction problems to me, I was getting 2.20's on the bald gatorbacks,

Was this your first time out?

 

[screaminr1]

My car is an 01 and I am on the drag radials. Much better than regular street tires. Yes, this was my first time out but I have raced many, many cars on the street and stock stangs tend to pull me from a 20 punch.

 

[JonJon]

it has to be a traction issue
2.2's on DR's is pretty crappy
and probably getting a lot of spin on the shifts?
hell i ran 8.80 1/8th with just a C&L MAF.

you probably need a tune too, LT's and N2o???? TUNE

 

[streetstang03]

well, your wheels arent helping out, nor your springs. i would say to practice your driving a bit more and get some more experience at the track. try cutting some weight (rear seat delete, spare, jack etc...). if u think ur car might have something wrong with it, it might be a good time to have it looked at by a mechanic.

 

[ADRENLN]

if stock stangs are pulling you from 20 mph, then there is a big problem. with the 20 mph race you eliminate the bad launch, there has to be a problem.

 

[screaminr1]

I know a tune will help and believe me it's next but shouldn't I still be pulling harder than stock stangs? Even if I am having traction issues, which it doesn't seem to bad, from a 20mph punch on a stock stang, I should rape it... right?
Re: I agree something is wrong but I don't think it's mechanical. I mean the car seems to run fine but I am at a loss.

 

[GTn00b]

Get a tune and you should be spanking other mustangs in no time you should be running 13.5's N/A not N20

 

[streetstang03]

Get a tune and you should be spanking other mustangs in no time you should be running 13.5's N/A not N20

w/ nitrous and DRs, you should easily be in the 12s.

 

[Blue 98 GT]

I take it you went to SAR for 1/4 mile? Sounds to me like you're running about a second slow on N/A. Try replacing the old plenum and 56mm throttle body. I've heard that sometimes people who use the 75 mm throttle body lose power without internal engine mods. If you go back out to the track, then you can get a better baseline, minus exhaust. I also agree that your springs don't help.

 

[mogs01gt]

Well to be honest. You dont have much all motor mods. Gears, Headers, TB and a plenum. That isnt much but you should be pulling stock cars. I think there may be something wrong with the car. Have you had any SES codes pop up? Now you dont have a very good setup for the drag strip with all that suspension work but on the street, you should have no problem with stock stangs.

Are you spinning your tires on shifts?

 

[back_in_black]

14-16 psi in the nittos, power shift, tune. I think you are loosing a lot of torque w/o the tune !!

 

[scalder]

Gotta work on that sixty....I was cuttin' 2.0's w the stockers and 1.8 w DR's...Don't worry about your reaction time, it has no bearing on what your ET will be. Just concentrate on launching the best you can...

 

[GinoGT]

The springs aren't the best for weight transfer, and running bling bling rims at the track is just shooting yourself in the foot.

Get the 60's down, and powershift.

 

[tygr1]

Adjust those Tokicos ALL the way soft at the rear for 1/4 mile runs.

Get that thing on a dyno dude! All that money and you've never had it analyzed? You could have been going the wrong way with one or more of those bolt-ons and you wouldn't even know it!

Spend a little of that money wisely, and I'm thinking you've already got yourself a 13 sec. car...on the motor!

 

[JonJon]

I think it's tuneee