traction control blows

[JonJon]

I'll try shifting earlier for a couple passes next time at the track, maybe about 5200 or so. I can tell my powerband sort of does a face plant up near redline, plus I think the 4.10's will let me get away with shifting earlier.

it's not that it falls flat on face in the upper RPMs though, if you short shift you end up too low in the revs in the next gear and that's wasted time getting back into the powerband.

 

[GinoGT]

With the 4.10's though, the car just runs throuh the first 2 or 3 gears so quickly. Besides, the car feels like it has the most torque at around 4000, so a shift putting me at or just before 4k would be pretty good. I think it's the 3-4 shift where it'll actually put me past 4k if I take it to redline.

 

[JonJon]

With the 4.10's though, the car just runs throuh the first 2 or 3 gears so quickly. Besides, the car feels like it has the most torque at around 4000, so a shift putting me at or just before 4k would be pretty good. I think it's the 3-4 shift where it'll actually put me past 4k if I take it to redline.

perhaps
i need gears

 

[StngStr]

I can't imagine that you didn't realize TC was on when the light on the instrument cluster lights up and it should bog like hell. How could you miss that?

 

[hognutz]

basically you can't get a good launch with traction control. I am suprised you did not run an 16sec. when I come out of the hole hard with the tc on it just kills the acceleration. I bought the disable circuit that remebers the setting and leave the thing off. I call mine the "jodi" button. I just turn it on when my wife is driving in the rain becasue she was born with a damn lead foot. this is the one I have

http://www.randrspecialty.com/autoelectronics/mustang.html

basically you data is scewed. go try it again. you will proably be very happy once you do.

 

[jas142]

Its the traction control for sure, we've all forgotten about it every once in awhile. I was trying to do a little burnout one day and realized my tires wouldn't spin! I was getting pissed and then realized I left TC on

Turn it off an make another pass!

 

[CManT1914]

i have 2 Gtech's, the regular and the competition. but i know it has limitations like
1) the non competition one is easily miscalibrated
2) the road has to be perfectly flat
3) wheel spin = less accurate readings
4) competition model is awesome

in my 99 GT, stock, i ran 14.0x runs with the non competition model
then i went to the drag strip and ran low 14's until i got a 13.706 run

so if you're using the gtech right (assuming it's a non competition) you are driving like craaaaaaaap
or it's miscalibrated, or it's not a flat road

Maybe I'm just ignorant but I've never heard of a Gtech, can you explain what it is and how it works? Thanks man.

 

[Blue1]

I can't imagine that you didn't realize TC was on when the light on the instrument cluster lights up and it should bog like hell. How could you miss that?

The car is new to me (600 miles). I haven't had a stick car since the early nineties. I haven't noticed the light in the instrument cluster. And it turned the wheels off the line; acceleration just seemed a bit off.

BTW, how well did you know your car after 600 miles?

Blue

 

[Blue1]

Maybe I'm just ignorant but I've never heard of a Gtech, can you explain what it is and how it works? Thanks man.

A GTech is a small instrument that plugs into the lighter socket for power. It is an accelerometer, which means it measures the G forces the acceleration of the verhicle is producing and compare that to a very accurate internal clock that extrapolates g forces and time to give you a read out that can show 0 - 60 times, quarter mile times, 60 - 0 braking, and other stats.

Mine was $140 about five years ago.

Blue

 

[White Stang]

Everyone thinks they have some kind of factory freak or that they're a prodigy when it comes to racing cars.........

Then you go the the track, get the timeslip, and realize you suck.

Happens to all of us.

That is so true and if your lucky you line up by imports and take them down with your mid 15 second runs because they are running in the 18 second range.

 

[White Stang]

The car is new to me (600 miles). I haven't had a stick car since the early nineties. I haven't noticed the light in the instrument cluster. And it turned the wheels off the line; acceleration just seemed a bit off.

BTW, how well did you know your car after 600 miles?

Blue

I admit I went down the track with the stupid traction control on twice and I ran a 15.5 and I spun the stock tires. I did not feel the car bogging down and the tire light coming on although I did expearance that going a little fast around a turn on a other occasion. I wish they would have made it so it was normally off and you have to push the button to turn it on. That would just make since