Official timeslip thread

[sxcpotatoes]

Sxcpotatoes... A little bit of bad but relevant news... The timer starts when the car leaves the beams so you could have a 5min reaction time or .000 and the timeslip will still say 10.67sec (high 16's 1/4).

Good news is these cars at these power levels in the 1/4... 7hp drops a tenth, as does losing 90lbs, 10* in air temps=2.5% hp gain/loss.


Pesty351 that car rips hey! Nice work

-Did not know that.

- Are you calling me fat? J/k, I could probably drop almost 90 and pull the spare and jack and fluids from the trunk to have 180 lbs less weight in the car.

[merc91]

Sxcpotatoes... A little bit of bad but relevant news... The timer starts when the car leaves the beams so you could have a 5min reaction time or .000 and the timeslip will still say 10.67sec (high 16's 1/4).

Good news is these cars at these power levels in the 1/4... 7hp drops a tenth, as does losing 90lbs, 10* in air temps=2.5% hp gain/loss.


Pesty351 that car rips hey! Nice work

[merc91]

Well finally managed to break into the 8's in the 1/8 and a best 14.1 in the 1/4.

The old girl weighs in at a heavy 4320lbs race weight at the line, DD, street tires, mild xe258 cam, has a completely untouched set of P heads, freshened stock HO bottom end and MS3X engine management I finally put in my own car which is awesome. Blows .01CO and 12HC (this way better than brand new) for emissions testing and 25mpg cruising. Stays under 6000rpm.

Dropped officially 1 full second this season with heavy re-shaping of the explorer upper/lower/fabbing the tapered intake pipe and ms3x tuning... getting a flow bench this winter so i'll be interested to see the #'s since customers seem to prefer flow #'s and dyno over actual time slips lol..
Nitrous bottles haven't left the dusty corner of the garage all yr but filled em today to let both systems rip on the 23rd test and tune.

Porting the p heads this winter and tigging up a set of tuned longtubes and just got an xe-270 cam to slide in to hit 13's next year NA so i'm pretty surprised that is a possibility in that weight with all explorer parts lol. Twaz a good season back at the track after a 3yr build

[sly]

All my times (86VickyLX as well) from SF 2015. According to the papers... I beat him to the end of the track every run. (He's left lane, I'm right lane) Unfortunately both our cars were not running their best. Mine had some bad plugs and his had lots of tune issues.

[sxcpotatoes]

sorry tried to put two pictures in, one disappeared here slip!

[sxcpotatoes]

Has no one seriously posted in this thread since 2011?!?



I had a pretty crappy reaction time, just over a second. Ran 10.673 1/8 mi. If I had a perfect 0.00 reaction that would put me at 9.673 of course. A 9.65 converts to 15.05! I only got 1 run in due to a miscommunication. Test and tune were supposed to go before street class runs and I was told AFTER. It was 82-83 degrees out early afternoon Sunday. The Saturn wagon with roof rack & spare tire taken off the roof rack got me off the line but I beat him!

Now I have an idea what to dial in and I can shoot for perfect reaction time and maybe break into the 14s! (Converting 1/8 to 1/4 mi times) I did this on 2 hours sleep after working all night as well.

[Pesty351]

Knocked a couple more tenths off with an 8.52 @ 80mph

[mrltd]

hey guys... finally went to a strip for my first time. had a full trunk and tank with a passenger, and she ran a 14.86 at 92.7mph.
runs pretty rich and i'm getting a 5hr dyno tune with lidio at alternative performance on tuesday... and he's also going to be tuning it to accept a little shot of nitrous thats installed in the car as of today while we're at it. I'll let ya's know the new time probly this friday when i go down again.

...i (a 19 year old goofer that saved up money from workin at sears after school) beat a cutless with a 383 stroker hehe they loved that merc like crazy there lol.

Not too bad, that was the best my 87 with an HO converted lopo ever mustered.

[1980c10]

Congrats man seems pretty quick, should pick up some more with a tune.

[merc91]

hey guys... finally went to a strip for my first time. had a full trunk and tank with a passenger, and she ran a 14.86 at 92.7mph.
runs pretty rich and i'm getting a 5hr dyno tune with lidio at alternative performance on tuesday... and he's also going to be tuning it to accept a little shot of nitrous thats installed in the car as of today while we're at it. I'll let ya's know the new time probly this friday when i go down again.

...i (a 19 year old goofer that saved up money from workin at sears after school) beat a cutless with a 383 stroker hehe they loved that merc like crazy there lol.

[Pesty351]

1.92 60 ft
8.74 at 78mph 1/8 mile

She has more in her I was only launching the car at 2k and I'm still messing with the carb tuning.

[pantera77]

Best my 91 ever ran was a 11.39 in the 1/8. That was bone stock with duals, and HO intake/TB/EGR spacer

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-c9zzH6QdjQ

Best run in the Wagon so far was a 10.60 in the 1/8 and a 16.54 in the 1/4.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WKwCV1X8QZk

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VF2M4jlfFEM

Best I've ran in the 89 so far was a 10.11, but I know it still has more in it. I want to take it to the 1/4 this year.

[Mustang Eddie]

Lol I get the most strange looks at the strip with purple wheels and white walls lol. I love having a quick panther.
Congrats on the times man, seems like she boogies pretty good. I hope to be close to you with the new converter and vb.

Thanks for the congrats hope the converter & valve body get you what you're looking for.

[1980c10]

Lol I get the most strange looks at the strip with purple wheels and white walls lol. I love having a quick panther.
Congrats on the times man, seems like she boogies pretty good. I hope to be close to you with the new converter and vb.

[Mustang Eddie]

Shit. The discussion thread link is toast on the front page....so I will just going in

Eddie...I love the fact that you have white walls on in the picture!

Well there kinda white lol, whole car was pretty dirty that night.They may still be the same tires that are on the car now.