A disheartened 4.6L owner

[95GTS]

Holy cow!! 2.6 60 ft? You did ALOT more than haze the tires. That's some serious tire spinning there. That's a BIG reason why you are running a 15.9. Practice, practice, practice. You NEED to get that 60ft down bigtime. When you go up to the line light the tires up for long enough that they start to smoke and then let off the brake and coast out of it while letting off the gas. It doesn't do much good to roast the crap out of street tires. You basically just want to clean them off when you do your burnout. Launch at around 1800-2000 rpm and don't completely dump the clutch. Kind of "feather" it a bit to try to keep the tires from breaking loose. DO NOT worry about your reaction time and who you are racing. For now concentrate on your launching techniques and getting those tires hooked up. If you still can't get the tires to hook drop your launching rpm's down untill you can get it to hook. If that doesn't work you need some better tires (probably need them anyways). The best tires to get, at least, would be drag radials. BTW, what was you mph on the runs?

96-97 GT= 215 hp @ 4400 rpm; 285 lb/ft @ 3500
Fox 5.0 excluding 93 (which was 205 hp, 275 lb/ft)= 225 hp @ 4200; 300 lb/ft @ 3200