I'm not really into drag racing, but I like to go and see what I can do nonetheless. The last time I dragged a few weeks back my car was completely stock. Now, I call my Stage 1 the Stage 1 minus because I have not yet installed my cams gears. It has never been tuned; I just bolted on the exhaust and the Xede. Like last time, I added two and a half gallons of 104 unleaded. This time, I was able to run the 93 octane map. I was at Carlsbad Raceway in San Diego County.

Today, unfortunately, my tank was still on full and I had a couple of extra things in car compared to a couple of weeks ago. I estimate I was carrying between 40 and 50 pounds more than the last time I raced. Other than that, EVERYTHING was equal: Weather was about the same, same drag strip, same lane, same high rpm clutch drop. I was really hoping to be anywhere in the high 12s, but I'm satified with my improvement. Also, I am a complete inexperienced amateur drag racer. These two results are actually the only two times I have ever dragged in my life. Here is the before and after Vishnu:

Stock.......................................... With Vishnu
.726.................reaction................. .591
1.989.................60 ft .................. 1.976
5.663.................330 ft ................. 5.48
8.776 .............. 1/8et .................. 8.42
78.92 ............... 1/8 mph .............. 80.63
13.719 ............. 1/4 et ................ 13.105
100.52 ............. 1/4 mph ..............106.66

Kinda glazed my clutch today so I couldn't try a second run. But, as you can see, I did .61 secs faster and over 6 mph faster. I only wonder about what I would have run with my car completely emptied out and only two gallons of 104 inside with the 104 xmap running.

Finally, by luck, a stock Cobra Mustang was lined up with me. I smoked him, but he was an awful driver. VERY fun to knock off the V8s.

 

That's a great run. You probably would have hit the high 12's with a 1.85 60ft. Like me, I'm sure you're not thrilled by the possibility of frying the clutch.

I'm running the complete Stage 1 which was tuned by Shiv. I have plenty of Sunoco 94 octane here on the East Coast. I'd like to make a 1/4 pass after it's retuned with the 264/272 cams.

You should notice a difference with the cam gears. At our dyno session with Shiv, cars with cam gears were making 10 - 15 more whp in the higher rpms.

 

By the way, reaction times do not count at all for total time. They only help you against your opponent.

Also, my clutch felt fine by the time I got on the freeway on my way home. I gave it a couple of tests when I got home and it felt normal. However, I actually saw clutch smoke come out of my hood 25 minutes after my first race. I was going to do a second run and I wanted to check my clutch so I moderately revved and slipped it in the staging area. When it smoked, I decided that I was done for the day.

 

Not too bad Armondo has only 2 passes on his stage 1 in waaayy south texas and ran a 12.4@111.8x on 100 unleadses Stage 1 has the power the cam gears will really help as thats the portion of the band your in. Easy 12s for sure

 

Hell ya! Thanks for the input. I need to get those gears installed.

There was another EvoM member there today with a silver Evo like mine. Helli0n is his member name. I never asked him for his slips or times, but he wasn't doing too good. He had clutch problems, but not the same as other evo owner. He had a big Vivid Racing sticker running along under his doors, and one of his mods was a fancy intake box, which made me think of Shiv's comments regarding intakes. We were actually going to race each other when I experienced my clutch smoked, so I called it a day.

 

damn, i want to see some timeslips on 91-octane CA gas...