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Old 03-08-2002, 12:16 PM   #8
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Originally posted by pony_power_90
... Dont take this the worng way man I'm not criticizin you at all, Heck I havent even had my car to teh track yet. Im just offering a little advice, trying to get your times better.
Brad
Hey man. I appreciate your advice, I won't take it the wrong way at all.

You're pretty much right. On this run, I decided to let the tranny shift itself. I had a lot of time to think about how I was going to do this ONE run (since I knew that would be all I could do for the night). I just decided to 1) let it shift by itself, 2) start at 28 psi (even though I could've started at 20), 3) do the burn out a certain way (I power braked the burn out for about 3 seconds--don't have line lok cause I don't really think I need it-- and when I started seeing smoke build up, I let off the brake and just about floored it. As the car was burning the back tires, it slowly started picking up speed as I was reaching the tree, then I let off after about another 3 second or else I would have passed the line.)

I basically wanted to see what the car would run on a clean pass without changing too many variables the first time through. Next time when I go, I want to try to get better and better times by trial and error (and small adjustments/tuning) and that will include shifting manually, and finding the best tire pressure (I did drop it from 35 psi which is what I usually run on the road). The front tires were at 39 psi (44 is max).

Hopefully, I'll be at the track not this sat night (tomorrow), but next Saturday night.
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