Well for the most part my GT is close to stock. Only having UD Pulleys and a full exhaust system with no cats. The mileage now reads 82000 miles. I have wider tires on the rear 275/40R17's. That's pretty much it. Oh yea timing bumped to 14 degrees.
This car is driven daily to and from work and every where else in between. So I am not so quick to start changing things.
Sorry, getting to the point here. Darlington is the 1st time I have run the car in the 1/4, I was staying consistant with a 14.8 crossing around 92mph. Sure I think I was the slowest car out there this past weekend. A guy comes up to me in the staging lanes mainly to compliment me on how clean the car looked. Then proceeded to know what has been done to it. He was shocked that the car was almost unmolested and gave me some options to do that were pretty simple stuff.
The obvious was to install some 3.73 gears.
~ next he said was to change my T-stat to a 130 to make it run cooler.
~ also to change the fuel regulator to one that is adjustable and set it to about 35?
I know the gears will help a bit, but will the others to make any difference to what I have? He said by doing just those items and putting some slicks on it, that it would be very capable of getting in the 13's? You thoughts?
Here is what one on my slips read:
R/T ~ .034
60 ~ 2.299
330 ~ 6.322
1/8 ~ 9.630
mph~ 74.19
1000~ .000
1/4 ~ 14.889
mph ~ 93.02
Now on a different slip I had a slight better time of 14.870.
Is this what ya guys would expect for a GT modded lightly like mine? The car is a 5 speed.
Thanks
This car is driven daily to and from work and every where else in between. So I am not so quick to start changing things.
Sorry, getting to the point here. Darlington is the 1st time I have run the car in the 1/4, I was staying consistant with a 14.8 crossing around 92mph. Sure I think I was the slowest car out there this past weekend. A guy comes up to me in the staging lanes mainly to compliment me on how clean the car looked. Then proceeded to know what has been done to it. He was shocked that the car was almost unmolested and gave me some options to do that were pretty simple stuff.
The obvious was to install some 3.73 gears.
~ next he said was to change my T-stat to a 130 to make it run cooler.
~ also to change the fuel regulator to one that is adjustable and set it to about 35?
I know the gears will help a bit, but will the others to make any difference to what I have? He said by doing just those items and putting some slicks on it, that it would be very capable of getting in the 13's? You thoughts?
Here is what one on my slips read:
R/T ~ .034
60 ~ 2.299
330 ~ 6.322
1/8 ~ 9.630
mph~ 74.19
1000~ .000
1/4 ~ 14.889
mph ~ 93.02
Now on a different slip I had a slight better time of 14.870.
Is this what ya guys would expect for a GT modded lightly like mine? The car is a 5 speed.
Thanks