Very impressed for 1st time at track
 

Well my car and I took our first trip to the track together today and I must say my expectations were blown away. We had our Mustang club day at Desoto in Bradenton, Fl so it was ALL Mustangs. I happen to race 4 diff Cobra's talk about stiff competiton. The only thing other than what's it my sig was I ran a short belt to bypass my power steering and smog pump. All runs were also without the spare tire and about 1/2 tank of gas.

1st run: 97 Cobra Me
R/T 1.298 1.045
60' 2.274 2.333
330' 6.193 6.288
1/8 9.354 9.461
MPH 77.35 76.79
1/4 14.391 14.541
MPH 97.90 97.00


2nd run: 99-02 Cobra Me
R/T 1.021 .940
60' 2.168 2.222
330 5.935 6.132
1/8 8.983 9.282
MPH 80.93 77.38
1000 11.604 12.028
1/4 13.797 14.331
MPH 102.28 97.46


3rd run: 99-02 Cobra Me
R/T 1.640 1.265
60 2.077 2.275
330 5.751 6.178
1/8 8.828 9.339
MPH 81.24 79.36
1000 11.436 12.112
1/4 13.632 14.424
MPH 102.62 97.17


Last run: 97 Cobra Vert. Me
R/T .719 .719
60 2.332 2.300
330 6.350 6.210
1/8 9.500 9.385
MPH 78.20 77.25
1000 12.234 12.134
1/4 14.507 14.436
MPH 98.37 97.74

My last run, even though it wasn't the fastest, was my favorite! I can't believe I was hanging with cars rated at 300+hp. I was very impressed today. Although, I was very uncomfotable at the tree. All launches were between 1000-2000rpm.

Very nice times. That 14.33 with a 2.22 60' would be AWEFULLY close to a 13.99 if you got some tires and hooked up. Just bring those 60' times down to 1.9-2.0 and you'll have low 14's if not high 13's

Re: Very impressed for 1st time at track
 

Impressive Matt :D

Oh and the first few trips down the ole 1320, everybody is uncomfortable at the tree ! But hey its that A** pucker factor that makes it fun !! :eek:

Damn matt! mustang day and i missed it! i was off and could have gone!! :( :mad:

let me know next time and i'll be there and shut those cobra's down! hehe

Thanks guys, yeah I'm pretty psyched about the times. And Stang Crazy you're right, if I can get my 60's down to the 2.0's I'd be very close to 13's. I still can't believe the car did that well.

I love it. A high mileage, 13 year-old, good 'ol 302 puts down some 14.3's @ 97 mph in hot weather w/2.2 60's and 2.73's to boot!

Nice job, man! ;)

E

Very nice times man :cool: hey whats the condition/ brand of that off-road h pipe you got for sale? :D

Good times
 

Hey those are good times, especially for the first time to the track. I was glad to see that the last run RT was better. You are leaving on the third yellow aren't you? A good RT and a good launch will let you win against faster cars as I'm sure you already know.

Rev

it's so hard to convince your self to go on yellow and not green like on the street ...once you get over that it'll just be about fine tuning it untill you get low 5's over at desoto...hey if you guys get together on a not all stang night give me a yell...i can pull down some high 13's

Please tell me you have dyno #'s to back those claims in your signature....

do you have email ...fotki is down where my dyno plots are i could email them to you

Your car runs just like my buddies

He has 2.73's also, damn near stock and goes 97-98mph.

He swaped to 3.27's and put on some slicks, and ran 99-100mph going 13.8-13.9 all day. Beating some stangs w/ all kinds of boltons.

Skyler

sound slike me sky:D , i have the same gears, have gone 13.9's back in the day with all cat converters and little tires, now go mid 13's with some minor stuff and aggressive driving, i have a couple modded stangs under the belt including some lt1 vettes,

sometimes mods can throw off your combo, it's good to match things up, and do some planning, im goin aluminum headed, edel intk and some 24# injtrs hoping for times like sky's n/a:p

Are you one of the guys over at acura cl.com or something like that? I perused that board not too long ago....

Lots of posts about stock cl's (not cls's) beating 4.6 stangs.

:rolleyes:

Also,
Unless you were on a dyno and put each part on separately and then ran... How the heck can you state a cai gives you 10 rwhp? or a set of headers 30 rwhp?
You paid $1000.00 dollars for headers?!

You got me curious.... Not a flame....
I'd truly like to see a dyno of this 300 rwhp monster (or is it 260 to make up for the tranny loss?).... email it to me and I'll try to post it for ya....

Nice times matt! Let me know whats up so you can come over to Moroso sometime soon.

MidNiteBlu5.0, I have to fix my sig. cuz I'm actually putting on the H-pipe and a set of headers on Saturday, sorry about that! Thanx for the compliments on the times guys, I'm going to practice some more tonight for 13's or to atleast lower my 60's to maybe 2.0-2.1's, gonna experiment with tire pressures and stuff like that. I'll be at Bithlow?/Orlando Speed World Dragway tonight for the T&T, it's only like $10 with no extra charge to run!. I dunno if anyone lives around the area but head up there if you can.

Matt

whats your email address...never mind i see i can attach it right here,, thats is a dyno of my car with headers /intake and a stroked short block 3.5 from 3.2 compression is bumped slightly from 10.5 to 10.87

this is another members dyno from a-cl.com but same car same setup (headers intake)...from the several baslines done on this car it seems 23% tranny loss is the norm...
http://forums.mustangworks.com/attac...&postid=187262

Damnn man. Nice Numbers, glad mine made 298HP though.:D

the 260/232 number you see in my sig is the published crank number with 23% loss thats about 205 FWHP then add headers and intake and now stroked short block... i havent seen much of anybody saying a non type S cl could beat a 4.6 99+ GT ..but there are some people that just dont know this car over there and well cam sound stupid at times...a stock cl type S could hang with a 99+ auto vert GT until say 70 mph ...a modified cl-S H/E/I and tires (ours really suck and FWD is enough dissadvantage) CAN hang with a 99+GT manny lightly modded something like K&N and flowmasters we all know there's almost no limit to what can be done to the stang of any year really so ...just gotta choose your battles wisely