Took the 2014 to the track today :)

[Competition]

Well it was our local tracks last day open for the year, and I was really curious what the GT500 would do in stock form, now that I have a couple hundred miles on it. So my good buddy BiminiLX and I headed up around 8am this morning. I started off a little sketchy, this is a difficult car to launch! I ended up bogging the car so hard that it stalled the first pass, the second pass I left with a little more RPM and spun horribly, and ended up with a 12.2 @ 118.x, I was kind of concerned with the low mph, so I spoke with J (BiminiLX) a little on shift points and he advised me that I was shifting the car at way too low of an RPM, so for the third pass I launched with a little less RPM, and went a 2.0 sixty foot but shifted the car a little higher (around 6800 I'd say) and netted myself a 11.69 @ 125.61. I decided to drop tire PSI a little, so we dropped the Nittos down to 15 psi, and I gave it one last attempt, and banged out an 11.49 @ 125.26 with a 1.8 sixty foot. Needless to say I am MORE than happy with the performance of this car bone stock. I cannot wait to start throwing some parts at it this winter and get back to the track in the spring!

 

[09Troublemaker]

Nice way to end the year! Congrats :beer:

 

[YELL03]

Nice run!

11.4@125+ for a stock car, not too shabby.

 

[raustin0017]

Great runs!

 

[sftdyna]

great job!!!!

 

[2011 gtcs]

Very impressive, I'm still so impressed at how well these cars trap, 125 is moving

 

[biminiLX]

Are those 18s up front? oke:
Great pass, will be cool when we have the cars together at the track next year.
I know you can drive so your 118mph trap had me scratching my head until we talked shift points, it's always good to have experienced friends at the track when you're shaking things down.
Evan Smith told me 3-4 tenths from a gear swap and a tune helps too (hard to tell on my car as it just made the stock tires spin more), so it makes sense between your 11.49 and my 11.03.
I thought my AMG would do better than a 12.8@112 but those passes all had issues, I'll stick to using the Mustangs at the strip :burnout:
Well, both our baselines our done, looking forward to next season after some mods.
Congrats again bro :rockon:
-J
:beer:

 

[biminiLX]

Very impressive, I'm still so impressed at how well these cars trap, 125 is moving

Yep Lance proved to me these cars require 6700+rpm shift points and good shifting to be 125+ , if it's lower, drive harder :burnout:
-J

 

[biminiLX]

And are you going to do a Dyno baseline?
Did you remove the clutch spring?
-J

 

[big_ole_truck]

Very nice! I'm amazed the performance right from the factory.

 

[mds370]

Nice Job!

 

[2011 gtcs]

And are you going to do a Dyno baseline?
Did you remove the clutch spring?
-J

Im going to dyno the car at the end of this month and yes the day after I bought the car I pulled that stupid ass clutch spring out.

 

[TT91Coupe]

Simply Awesome Job Competition!!!

 

[dubbsfaris]

Who would have ever thought this would be possible from a turnkey mustang? I remember watching my brother in his '89 notch feeling like rock stars breaking 15 seconds.

 

[BITDIFFERENTSVT]

Great job.
All nannies off?
Slip or drop the clutch?

I coudnt get better than a 2.1 60' time... With 335 MPSS's and rear suspension mods....

But after reading your post, I was shifting at ~6400 due to when it makes peak power.... (I was chirping tires on every shift though)

 

[440sprint]

WOW! DA that track day?

Which NITTOS & size?

 

[biminiLX]

Nitto NT05R 315/35/20
I would have to look at the DA, we don't get the mine shaft air the East Coast guys get, but it was cold outside.
-J

 

[biminiLX]

Great job.
All nannies off?
Slip or drop the clutch?

I coudnt get better than a 2.1 60' time... With 335 MPSS's and rear suspension mods....

But after reading your post, I was shifting at ~6400 due to when it makes peak power.... (I was chirping tires on every shift though)

All off nannies.
I raced my DD AMG for the first time with MPSS and was NOT impressed, but I also wasn't doing a burnout either. I can tell you I absolutely love the MPSS, but nothing hooks like a DR.
You want to shift just above peak power, look at HP dyno graphs, you want most are under the curve, in this case 67-6800 is my recommendation although 3-4 shift is probably better 6400 as less shift drop back on 3-4.
-J

 

[biminiLX]

Found a cool DA calculator site for you guys:
DA Calculator - Density Altitude Calculator - DragTimes.com

And came out:
Density Altitude: -317 feet
Relative Density: 100.93 %

BTW, my calculations from my 11.03 pass:

Density Altitude: 756 feet
Relative Density: 97.81 %

I have no idea how much DA is worth on these cars
-J

 

[svt662]

Nice job! :beer: