I dont have a ton of time these days but really wanted toi get to the track with this thing. It was snowing this morning, called the track and they said they were running today put the car on the trailer and hauled ass down to Steele Alabama where it was supposed to be sunny and 55 degrees.
Well it it turned out to be cold and rainy, good news is my weather station said -400 feet DA, bad news was the track was a mess and there was only about 10 cars there.
This is exactly how I ran the car:
Roush 2.3 TVS 90mm 'tuner' kit right at 7psi. (+70lbs)
VMP tune
K&N stock drop in air filter
Roush rear springs
265/18 M/T radials on stock wheels @ 17psi
GT500 mufflers (-10lbs)
Only weight I removed was the jack and spare (-30lbs)
I weight 240lbs.
Everything else in the car is 100% factory, only suspension mod was the rear springs.
First pass the car spun for about 500 feet then I finally let off it completely about the 1/8 mile so it would hook and got back into it - ran a blazing 16.58 @ 97mph with a 1.96 60 foot.
Since I didnt feel like wadding up a new car with only 2200 miles on it I did the chicken shit thing (besides the auto trans chicken shit thing) and turned the traction control on. I dont think one car that was there made a clean non-spinning pass and there was a few big tire cars there as well so 18" radials on real stock suspension wasnt going to cut it.
Anyhow, small burnout, TC on, 10.839 @ 127.5mph, 1.591 60 foot.
Third pass, TC off, spun bad so I just took the short turnoff and didnt bother getting the time slip.
Fourth pass, TC on again, spun some at the top of 1st but the TC kicked in and stopped it. 10.84 @ 127.4 1.599 60'
I have to say ford has a pretty good traction control algorithm Not sure how much it really did but I wasnt going to push it on a very slippery track and went home.
Video here;
I purposely left the car as stock as possible just to see how it would do, corrected to +2000 feet that would be 11.20s or so which is in-line with what Rebbecca ran with hers when they first took it out so it all makes sense Corrected to sea level it would run around 10.92 or so according to my wiz bang weather station.
So there you go, my only plans are a nice set of street wheels and tires and daily drive it - unless I get bored. Want to thank Justin from VMP for getting the tune dialed in so close by mail despite the SCT logger not working well.
Well it it turned out to be cold and rainy, good news is my weather station said -400 feet DA, bad news was the track was a mess and there was only about 10 cars there.
This is exactly how I ran the car:
Roush 2.3 TVS 90mm 'tuner' kit right at 7psi. (+70lbs)
VMP tune
K&N stock drop in air filter
Roush rear springs
265/18 M/T radials on stock wheels @ 17psi
GT500 mufflers (-10lbs)
Only weight I removed was the jack and spare (-30lbs)
I weight 240lbs.
Everything else in the car is 100% factory, only suspension mod was the rear springs.
First pass the car spun for about 500 feet then I finally let off it completely about the 1/8 mile so it would hook and got back into it - ran a blazing 16.58 @ 97mph with a 1.96 60 foot.
Since I didnt feel like wadding up a new car with only 2200 miles on it I did the chicken shit thing (besides the auto trans chicken shit thing) and turned the traction control on. I dont think one car that was there made a clean non-spinning pass and there was a few big tire cars there as well so 18" radials on real stock suspension wasnt going to cut it.
Anyhow, small burnout, TC on, 10.839 @ 127.5mph, 1.591 60 foot.
Third pass, TC off, spun bad so I just took the short turnoff and didnt bother getting the time slip.
Fourth pass, TC on again, spun some at the top of 1st but the TC kicked in and stopped it. 10.84 @ 127.4 1.599 60'
I have to say ford has a pretty good traction control algorithm Not sure how much it really did but I wasnt going to push it on a very slippery track and went home.
Video here;
I purposely left the car as stock as possible just to see how it would do, corrected to +2000 feet that would be 11.20s or so which is in-line with what Rebbecca ran with hers when they first took it out so it all makes sense Corrected to sea level it would run around 10.92 or so according to my wiz bang weather station.
So there you go, my only plans are a nice set of street wheels and tires and daily drive it - unless I get bored. Want to thank Justin from VMP for getting the tune dialed in so close by mail despite the SCT logger not working well.
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