I had the opportunity to go to the track (Norwalk) Friday and hooked up with a bunch of great Ford guys for their Smackdown event. (Kudos to Ben Dorn from Lima for putting together a great event.) I saw a LOT of fast cars there!
It was a HOT, humid day (mid 80's, nearly 100% humidity) that had the start delayed until nearly 10:30 AM due to an earlier gully washer and then had to end early due to even more heavy rain
. But man, were the cars flyin' in spite of the heat/humidity.
Obviously, I didn't get to see every car run (must have been nearly 70 cars there plus a few bikes!) but I did see tons of 5.0's ripping off times from 14's to mid/upper 11's depending on mods (more in the high 12's and 13's). I watched a buddy running solid 11.80s with his blown 5.0 and it rocked!
I saw several '03/'04 Cobras solidly in the 11's, some in the 10's and even saw a white '98 running mid 9's. My son's '03 Cobra (chip, pulley, tires, and exhaust) ran a wicked 12.05 @ 119mph on DR's - into a 20+mph headwind that was ripping in our face all afternoon. That black car of his is definitely upper 11's easily with more track time to perfect his launch on the new DR's.
I saw a few LS1 cars (SS's and a couple of WS6's) but they couldn't get out of the 13's no matter how hard they tried due mostly to mediocre driving from what I saw. Also saw a killer 10 second '70 442 nailing 10.30's - what a gorgeous car that sounded almost like a prostocker with its big block N/A Olds motor.
It was my first time out with the new combo - Craig TE-60, Meese 24 stock location I/C, THDP, Razor's Progressive Alky kit, a Cold Air kit and an Eric Marshall (TurboTweak) chip. I knew I had to spend a lot of time tuning so my goal was to get a good 12 second slip with some healthy mph.
I started small on the boost and worked slowly on getting the alky system dialed in on each pass. On my next to last run (@ 18 psi) the car netted a 12.93 @ just shy of 108 mph. My last run (set @ ~19.5 psi boost and hot lapping the car since we knew rain was coming) ran a decent 12.76 @ 109 into the wind - which at that point had to be nearly 30 mph from looking at the flags! Both of the last two runs were @ ~ 4-5psi launches. The O2's were in the mid 760's and I still had less than 1* of KR. The next run should have been mid 12's easily (I had just set it up for ~20 psi) but I never got the chance.
That's when the storms moved in (hard and fast).
Obviously, there is a LOT of room on this combo since I dropped nearly two tenths off of the ET just between the last two runs with only a little more boost and no other changes! This is all still with the stock converter too so I know there's more on the plate when I get that changed as well.
I'm fairly confident that the car has mid/high 11's in it with more tuning and boost plus the converter. I can't wait to get back to the track because I was just getting the turbo/alky dialed in and still had a solid 43 psi F/P with the line off (and I hadn't even played with the F/P yet). I'm really looking forward to seeing how the car handles 23-24 psi with a solid tune and a converter.
Gotta love the alky - this was all on 93 octane pump gas!
It was a HOT, humid day (mid 80's, nearly 100% humidity) that had the start delayed until nearly 10:30 AM due to an earlier gully washer and then had to end early due to even more heavy rain
. But man, were the cars flyin' in spite of the heat/humidity.Obviously, I didn't get to see every car run (must have been nearly 70 cars there plus a few bikes!) but I did see tons of 5.0's ripping off times from 14's to mid/upper 11's depending on mods (more in the high 12's and 13's). I watched a buddy running solid 11.80s with his blown 5.0 and it rocked!
I saw several '03/'04 Cobras solidly in the 11's, some in the 10's and even saw a white '98 running mid 9's.
My son's '03 Cobra (chip, pulley, tires, and exhaust) ran a wicked 12.05 @ 119mph on DR's - into a 20+mph headwind that was ripping in our face all afternoon. That black car of his is definitely upper 11's easily with more track time to perfect his launch on the new DR's. I saw a few LS1 cars (SS's and a couple of WS6's) but they couldn't get out of the 13's no matter how hard they tried due mostly to mediocre driving from what I saw. Also saw a killer 10 second '70 442 nailing 10.30's - what a gorgeous car that sounded almost like a prostocker with its big block N/A Olds motor.
It was my first time out with the new combo - Craig TE-60, Meese 24 stock location I/C, THDP, Razor's Progressive Alky kit, a Cold Air kit and an Eric Marshall (TurboTweak) chip. I knew I had to spend a lot of time tuning so my goal was to get a good 12 second slip with some healthy mph.
I started small on the boost and worked slowly on getting the alky system dialed in on each pass. On my next to last run (@ 18 psi) the car netted a 12.93 @ just shy of 108 mph. My last run (set @ ~19.5 psi boost and hot lapping the car since we knew rain was coming) ran a decent 12.76 @ 109 into the wind - which at that point had to be nearly 30 mph from looking at the flags! Both of the last two runs were @ ~ 4-5psi launches. The O2's were in the mid 760's and I still had less than 1* of KR. The next run should have been mid 12's easily (I had just set it up for ~20 psi) but I never got the chance.
That's when the storms moved in (hard and fast).
Obviously, there is a LOT of room on this combo since I dropped nearly two tenths off of the ET just between the last two runs with only a little more boost and no other changes!
This is all still with the stock converter too so I know there's more on the plate when I get that changed as well. I'm fairly confident that the car has mid/high 11's in it with more tuning and boost plus the converter. I can't wait to get back to the track because I was just getting the turbo/alky dialed in and still had a solid 43 psi F/P with the line off (and I hadn't even played with the F/P yet). I'm really looking forward to seeing how the car handles 23-24 psi with a solid tune and a converter.
Gotta love the alky - this was all on 93 octane pump gas!
