The trip to ATCO was an adventure. I drove down to Tim's Friday night. I arrived at 10:30 and then we went out to meet one of his friends to show him my car. Returned back to his house at 1AM. Mike K. arrives at Tim's house around 0645 the next morning! (Thanks Mike)
We get ready and take off to ATCO. On the way a new 911 C4S comes flying down the road. I pull behind him and match his speed at about 80mph in 3rd gear and about 5000rpm. He hits it and we are on. It takes a moment to match his speed and then we blow by him! We probably pulled about 6 car lengths from 80-130. Mike K. will tell you about the look on the guys face when we went by him.
I made a total of 12 passes at the track and really learned alot about the car. My best run was:
60' 2.327
330 6.058
1/8 9.023
MPH 84.28
990 11.447
1/4 13.577
MPH 108.96
The car has so much more potential in it's current form. It certainly would have run 110-111 everytime but it was bouncing the revlimiter in 3rd gear about 5/6 car lengths from the finish line. I have a 6600rpm chip that will fix that. I was actually learning how to launch it. I heated the drag radials big time and they got really sticky. They had enough traction that I needed to launch at a really high rpm or the engine would bog. My best run the engine bogged and then spun first and second gear.
On my last run I dumped the clutch at 5500rpm and the cars 60ft time was 2.15. This run would have put me 13.2 or lower. I shifted into 2nd and SMOKED the clutch! Go figure. After letting the car cool down the clutch was fine. These type of launches are going to require a 6 puck clutch!
As I neared home a WRX actually picked a race with me. It's the first time anyone has ever intiated a race with my 5er. We got a light and fortunately he left kinda soft. I spun all of first and he had a car length on me and then I passed him spinning second gear and then put 7/8 car lengths on him in the early part of 3rd.
All in all the car performed flawlessly and continues to take the severe punishement!
Todd
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We get ready and take off to ATCO. On the way a new 911 C4S comes flying down the road. I pull behind him and match his speed at about 80mph in 3rd gear and about 5000rpm. He hits it and we are on. It takes a moment to match his speed and then we blow by him! We probably pulled about 6 car lengths from 80-130. Mike K. will tell you about the look on the guys face when we went by him.
I made a total of 12 passes at the track and really learned alot about the car. My best run was:
60' 2.327
330 6.058
1/8 9.023
MPH 84.28
990 11.447
1/4 13.577
MPH 108.96
The car has so much more potential in it's current form. It certainly would have run 110-111 everytime but it was bouncing the revlimiter in 3rd gear about 5/6 car lengths from the finish line. I have a 6600rpm chip that will fix that. I was actually learning how to launch it. I heated the drag radials big time and they got really sticky. They had enough traction that I needed to launch at a really high rpm or the engine would bog. My best run the engine bogged and then spun first and second gear.
On my last run I dumped the clutch at 5500rpm and the cars 60ft time was 2.15. This run would have put me 13.2 or lower. I shifted into 2nd and SMOKED the clutch! Go figure. After letting the car cool down the clutch was fine. These type of launches are going to require a 6 puck clutch!
As I neared home a WRX actually picked a race with me. It's the first time anyone has ever intiated a race with my 5er. We got a light and fortunately he left kinda soft. I spun all of first and he had a car length on me and then I passed him spinning second gear and then put 7/8 car lengths on him in the early part of 3rd.
All in all the car performed flawlessly and continues to take the severe punishement!
Todd
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