Archive for June, 2011
SDAC 21
by Russ Knize on Jun.29, 2011, under Daytona
The national convention was back in Chicago again this year. The car show was at the same venue in Fox Lake along with the Chicagoland Mopar Connection’s “Mopars at the Park” show. It was neat seeing such nice FWD Mopars next to the classic iron again. The weather was perfect.
The drags were at Da Grove again as well. I was able to make a few passes. These new tires aren’t as sticky as the old Kumhos were. That along with this hair-trigger ceramic clutch had something to do with my launch problems, I think. The cal has been tuned better since the last time, so my MPH was in the 100s even on the worst pass. But I wasn’t able to beat my previous E/T. Best was 14.343sec @ 102.90mph. Best MPH was 103.66.
Coolant started getting pushed into the overflow at this point, so I called it quits.
React | 60′ | 1/8 ET | 1/8 MPH | 1/4 ET | 1/4 MPH | Comments |
0.845 | 2.565 | 9.861 | 75.27 | 14.897 | 101.69 | First run. Bogged it. |
0.320 | 2.553 | 9.626 | 76.36 | 14.637 | 102.50 | Hot-lapped. Spun. |
0.827 | 2.710 | 10.065 | 76.43 | 15.056 | 103.17 | Spun then bogged it. |
0.663 | 2.685 | 9.938 | 78.11 | 14.876 | 103.66 | Spun like crazy. Hot-lapped. |
0.490 | 2.599 | 9.720 | 77.49 | 14.720 | 102.13 | Tried staging rev-limiter at 4k. Spun like crazy. |
0.079 | 2.572 | 9.675 | 78.31 | 14.616 | 103.37 | 4k launch, spun. Hot-lapped. |
0.941 | 2.337 | 9.352 | 76.76 | 14.343 | 102.90 | 4k launch, feathered the clutch better. Hot-lapped. |
Here is a video of one of the runs taken by Ron M from the SDAC-Chicago club.