Seen this while searching for spark plugs and had to say something. You ran a 13.5 with a 3.5/plog/dp/stage 1 tb and tune??? With a 2.2 short time. Not buyin' it lol. Your track is not 1320' long then... I had pretty much ALL the goodies to support a 3.4, and I ran a 3.5, with a street tune from Ryan Carter, and with a 2.2 short time I ran a 14.67 @ 98mph. You put about HALF of my mods on, and are beating my WRX in the quarter mile? No way. Because a general rule of thumb is each second up front is about a second and a half at the back side, meaning, if you were to knock off a mere .2 off your short time, which is still doable, you'd run a 13.2? With a 3.5/plog/dp/stage 1 tb and tune. I can't see that happening. There's something wrong with your track. It's either short, or the timer's a little off. Had to say it. What tires were you on, what was your launch rpm's, what was the air temps that day, and did you have the spring blockers and spring cable mod up front.
the link to the pass your referring to is right in my post above , I no longer have the slip and not looking to go through threads from 7 or 8 years ago to find it
New England Dragway is definitely 1320 feet long
I raced that car there about 300 passes over about 5 years and it ran similarly over most of that time
I beat many , many wrx's in the 1/4 mile over the years with that car , typically only people who dare to do a high rpm clutch dump did well with those cars - bog = slow and very few wrx's were in the 12's at my track in 2007/2008 you were more likely on a street night to see one run 14 flat than 13 flat.
the car trapped 103/104 so yes it was surely capable of running quicker than 13.5 if it ever fully hooked up , cold nights are a bitch for fwd traction
I was wrong in that post about 60 foot times , the car typically ran between 2.0 & 2.2 and I am sure its pb pass coincided with a 2.0 short time (its best 60 foot ever was a 1.98 but I know that wasn't on it quickest pass) I never ran slicks on the car only nitto street tires /drag radials that I could run rain or shine
I don't know who ryan carter is I tuned my own and spent literally hundreds of hours scanning and tuning that car , it would be very difficult for a tuner to put the type of time you can put into your own tune ( at the time I commuted it 1100 miles a week between Maine & Massachusetts daily - the track was a 15 minute detour on my way home and almost always had a scan going lol)
about your 14.6 @98 with more mods you have something going on there several similarly modded w bodies to mine ran within a tick or 2 of mine at my track , I drove my daughters gs to the track with only a cone filter on it , no track prep ,3/4 tank and ran 14.4 @96 and that was not in great racing weather maybe 800 - 1200 above da or so mid august 70's dropping to 60's night.
I havent raced that car in about 5 years allthough the current owner just ran 13.0 with 250,ooo miles on it now still unopened engine & trans after adding an intercooler and smaller pulley but weather would have been somewhere in the 1000-1800 below sea level range as I only go to the track looking for et's spring and fall when I know the DA will be excellent ( I currently have 2 full weight , high mile stock internals f bodies that have run 11.9 &12.1)
I always did cable mod but in the back I have never heard of doing it in the front , although I had tried tieing down the front to stop weight transfer previous to doing cable mod with no success , I also ran spring blockers in the back all the time ( been in the car last 120k miles or more) but at the track with the cable mod they are only there to limit rear drop if a cable should snap
I am very thorough with track prep in order to get better et's than mods would normally provide because I am a cheap prick lol , I didn't persue lower 60 foots because I saw too many people running 1.8/1.9 60 foots breaking their stock 4t65e's and the bugger is still hanging in there for my buddy that owns the car now