running my car down again next wednesday too hopefully run a 15.7-9 even tho nothing has changed except. home made CAI. fresh tires. new tailshaft. sherman what 60ft time did you get ?

2.31. None of my launches where at all hard, next time i go out ill launch abit harder should bring 15s!!

i'd be syked if i had an N/A running 16's... i remember when mine was N/A and it struggled to beat anything that wasnt a clapped out VN!!! even when i had the turbo motor put in, on standard boost and with a 3" exhaust and cooler i still got completely mauled by a gen 3 vt calais... things are a bit different now, because i eat xr8s and xr6t's for breakfast... but thats only after running 13psi and putting in a malpassi... and compared to a stock VLT (with cooler an exhaust) the gen3's arent slow. infact, theyre still pretty quick. so theres no way an N/A would keep up to it. no way, no how.

4BangN show me your slips, i wanna see 330ft etc. and speeds to compare to mine

thanks for feed back. um. i should have let the tire pressure down for sure. just didnt really think of it. also i did try reving it harder and just dumping it... didnt work. it would do a little screech like it was gonna grab. then start frying 1 wheel for ages. hence why i was running 17 sec passes on my new tires. once i put the 15's on it was good. instant traction. but only got 2 runs on them and they were both in the 15's was pretty happy.

in the 2nd one was car 1043 a v8 (5ltr or gen3) by any chance

brand new vz ss i think. arent they gen 4 ? ****s me was a family car tho . just some older guy goin down for a bit of fun. gen 3 or gen 4 i dunno.

Quote: 15.993 @ 139kmh 86mph 2.24 60FT launch @ 3000rpm 15.815 @ 139kmh 86mph 2.41 60FT launch @ 3000rpm Well done mate. Youve got those 60ft times around the wrong way though, you ran the 2.41 on the 15.993 pass and the 2.24 60ft on the 15.815 which would make sense. Anyway congrats, respectable.

woops didnt even realise. bit of an improvement i thought. from 16.2 to 15.8 with no real changes to the car. also found that flat changing is actually slower then just a good old quick change. in my car it is anyway...

Oh not at all 4bangn, wen i raced my mates vl ever change ( i was flat changing he wasnt) i would get like half a car on him! It is noticably quicker!

Told ya the flat shifts would help ya Sherman Some original photos have not been recovered yet.

haha yeah they did nick!! Some original photos have not been recovered yet.

flat shift? as in no clutching?

How do you guys get into the 15's? I whacked on a Gtech the other day and had a go with that. I dont know if they are accurate or not but i had two little street runs. First one was 17.51 (launching at 2500rpm) and the second one was 17.01 (launching at 3000rpm with no spinning on 225's) both times with another person in the car with me and i was changing at 5000rpm every change. The changes are a bit slow though cause the box crunches at times going from 1st - 2nd. I've got exhaust, extractors and xf t/b. I was a but unimpressed with the times, but maybe the Gtech might not be accurate? I should just not be lazy and take it out to the strip.

Quote: Originally Posted by boostdVL flat shift? as in no clutching? depends on the person you talk too! Some people will say it is when you get the rev's right and dont use a clutch, where as i see it you dont take your foot off the accelerator and jab at the clutch to change gears quickly.

thanks syrus, no clutch at all would be pretty stupid...i always thought of it as just jabbin the clutch not backing off, but have been told otherwise

It's quite easy to change gears without the clutch. Truckies do it all the time. You have to pick the right revs when you do it or you'll end up with a box full of scrap metal. A mate of mine drives road trains and he reckons apart from 1st, he never uses a clutch to change gears. I'm not game to try in the VL. Maybe when the eskies registered! lol

Quote: Originally Posted by lil_timmy How do you guys get into the 15's? I whacked on a Gtech the other day and had a go with that. I dont know if they are accurate or not but i had two little street runs. First one was 17.51 (launching at 2500rpm) and the second one was 17.01 (launching at 3000rpm with no spinning on 225's) both times with another person in the car with me and i was changing at 5000rpm every change. The changes are a bit slow though cause the box crunches at times going from 1st - 2nd. I've got exhaust, extractors and xf t/b. I was a but unimpressed with the times, but maybe the Gtech might not be accurate? I should just not be lazy and take it out to the strip. Dunno what happened there. Gtechs are very accurate. Accurate down to .2 of a millisecond. Put your car on the dyno and check your RWKW figures.

lil_timmy take it too the track. the g tech is acurate but the street isnt. i know my car was so much quicker down the strip than it is on the street. i know on the street i spin up to 3rd and on the track i span for like 3 meters.

Yeah i plan to take it out eventually. The road was a tiny bit bumpy so maybe that threw it out a bit? Who knows, i'll just need to take it down the strip for a real time.