'14 GT Automatic - drag racing results from a few simple mods

skaarlaj · May 24, 2016

CoreGT said:
Headers really isn't bad. Get the harbor freight engine support bar, drop the k member, and you have all the access in the world. Hell, maybe I'll do it for some extra coin lol.

Did you drop your K-member out just for the header installation, or did you swap K-members as well?

Five Oh Brian · May 24, 2016

CoreGT said:
Headers really isn't bad. Get the harbor freight engine support bar, drop the k member, and you have all the access in the world. Hell, maybe I'll do it for some extra coin lol.

Is it sad that I'd just have our shop do the work for me instead of me doing it myself? Once upon a time, I pulled my own engines, rebuilt them, did mods, etc. Now, I just don't have the time and our shop can knock these kind of things out quickly while I'm at work. If they don't want to do this job for me, I'll look you up, though!

CoreGT · May 24, 2016

skaarlaj said:
Did you drop your K-member out just for the header installation, or did you swap K-members as well?

Just for headers. dropping the K takes about 30 minutes or so. Saves hours of misery trying to deal with headers while it's in the way.

wbt · May 25, 2016

If you don't want the car to be any quicker then why consider adding more power with headers?

Five Oh Brian · May 25, 2016

wbt said:
If you don't want the car to be any quicker then why consider adding more power with headers?

Car runs in the high 11.50's in decent air, and slows down to 11.70's in the heat of the summer. I'd like the car to run 11.50's even when the DA rises. I can always let off when we get great/low DA so that I don't go below 11.50.

Also, with a little more power I could go back to running my stock 18x8 wheels with drag radials instead of the big/little setup I run at the track now (17x4.5 and 15x10's). I love the sleeper look and running mid 11's on stock wheels is certainly an unexpected sight for many people.

skaarlaj · May 25, 2016

Five Oh Brian said:
Car runs in the high 11.50's in decent air, and slows down to 11.70's in the heat of the summer. I'd like the car to run 11.50's even when the DA rises. I can always let off when we get great/low DA so that I don't go below 11.50.

Also, with a little more power I could go back to running my stock 18x8 wheels with drag radials instead of the big/little setup I run at the track now (17x4.5 and 15x10's). I love the sleeper look and running mid 11's on stock wheels is certainly an unexpected sight for many people.

That would be cool, just make the trailered folk feel that much more foolish, hahaha!

Five Oh Brian · May 26, 2016

skaarlaj said:
That would be cool, just make the trailered folk feel that much more foolish, hahaha!

There is something magical about beating trailered racecars with a daily driver that appears to be stock. Even with the big & little wheels/tires, I get plenty of people who approach me in the pits & staging lanes wanting to know how my car performs so well & so consistent.

I raced at Pacific Raceways tonight and even the announcer commented on how consistent my car runs as I pulled up to the line! I made 6 passes tonight: 11.60, 11.61, 11.62, 11.62, 11.63, and an 11.67. The 11.67 pass was after an hour shutdown from someone oiling the track, so the car was too cold and spun a bit (terrible 1.72 sixty foot instead of my normal 1.59 to 1.63).

I got beat pretty bad by a C7 Corvette Z06 tonight. It was one of my 11.62 runs (at 116 mph) and he ran a 10.61 @ 130, so he had me by a full second!

kingcobra323 · May 26, 2016

Five Oh Brian said:
There is something magical about beating trailered racecars with a daily driver that appears to be stock. Even with the big & little wheels/tires, I get plenty of people who approach me in the pits & staging lanes wanting to know how my car performs so well & so consistent.

I raced at Pacific Raceways tonight and even the announcer commented on how consistent my car runs as I pulled up to the line! I made 6 passes tonight: 11.60, 11.61, 11.62, 11.62, 11.63, and an 11.67. The 11.67 pass was after an hour shutdown from someone oiling the track, so the car was too cold and spun a bit (terrible 1.72 sixty foot instead of my normal 1.59 to 1.63).

I got beat pretty bad by a C7 Corvette Z06 tonight. It was one of my 11.62 runs (at 116 mph) and he ran a 10.61 @ 130, so he had me by a full second!

It's so much fun to win especially when they ask what blower you running. I always chuckle and say I've got a stock mani, headers, intake and converter. And they are blown away. Na coyote FTW

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CoreGT · May 26, 2016

Man, the only people that approach me after a run are the tech officials telling me "do it again and you're out". :yaoface:

I drive 50+ miles to the track!

kingcobra323 · May 26, 2016

Lmfao best feeling. My best so far [email protected]

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Five Oh Brian · May 27, 2016

kingcobra323 said:
It's so much fun to win especially when they ask what blower you running. I always chuckle and say I've got a stock mani, headers, intake and converter. And they are blown away. Na coyote FTW

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Amen!

Five Oh Brian · May 27, 2016

kingcobra323 said:
Lmfao best feeling. My best so far [email protected]

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Very nice!!!

Five Oh Brian · May 27, 2016

CoreGT said:
Man, the only people that approach me after a run are the tech officials telling me "do it again and you're out".

I drive 50+ miles to the track!

Ha Ha! Good one!

All kidding aside, you should see how nice the 6 pt rollbar turned out in my friend, Bob's, white '12 Procharged Mustang GT automatic. Turbo Technology in Tacoma did it and it is super nice and well placed in the car.

Five Oh Brian · May 27, 2016

Hamming it up for the camera at Pacific Raceways yesterday....

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Five Oh Brian · May 27, 2016

Can't quite get daylight under the front tires! But, look at how well the factory suspension works with a 6R80...

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JEWC_Motorsports · May 27, 2016

Good pic!

Five Oh Brian · May 27, 2016

jewc75 said:
Good pic!

Thanks! Professional photographer at the track took the pics above. I saw him in front of me with his camera ready when I was in the waterbox for my first pass yesterday, so I figured I'd give him a smoke show.

JEWC_Motorsports · May 27, 2016

I too hope to have some good pics of my car at the track. No telling what its gonna do but if it doesnt run high 10's low 11's im gonna cry.

Five Oh Brian · May 27, 2016

jewc75 said:
I too hope to have some good pics of my car at the track. No telling what its gonna do but if it doesnt run high 10's low 11's im gonna cry.

Well, nobody likes to see a grown man cry, so get out there and run the number! High 10's FTW !!!

CoreGT · May 29, 2016

Five Oh Brian said:
Ha Ha! Good one!

All kidding aside, you should see how nice the 6 pt rollbar turned out in my friend, Bob's, white '12 Procharged Mustang GT automatic. Turbo Technology in Tacoma did it and it is super nice and well placed in the car.

Pretty sure I need an 8-10 point unfortunately, but I did see his setup last year and it looked nice.

Once you get under 9.99 at Pacific they want everything, including the NHRA license to go that quick lol

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