RedfireV8
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Sorry for the long read...
Sunday was some amazing weather so I figured it would be good to go back to the track and see what she puts down. The only chnage this time time to the car was the new wheels and tires. Tires are 275/40 Continental ExtremeContact DW. Like I said before the weather was awaesome. I believe it was 60* out and only 30% humidity.
Now I'll get to my issue I think I have in a second but I'm pretty happy with the times. It was so packed there today over at SCR that I didn't make my first run until an hour and 45 minutes after I got there. But I did meet a few other guys with 5.0's, all auto btw, so that was cool to talk with them. There were 2 5.0's there with the following mods and nothing more that were running 12.1 and 12.2's.
GB 5.0: Pro Cal tune, stock intake, FR Xpipe(I think) and ET streets. 12.1
Black 5.0: JMS Tune, stock intake, OR X, BBR lca and NT555's 12.2
Basically just a tune for the most part is the way I see it and the were running low low 12's! Jeezums... Now I went expecting 12.5's maybe but low 12's wow. Now when I heard that I was excited because I was like awesome! All this good weather and maybe good track prep and I'll be right with them. Not quite. Oh I did finally break 1.9 60fts! Yay! Guess those 275's help quite I bit.
My passes as follows:
1st: 12.9 @ 112(?) 1.9 60ft
2nd: 12.3 @ 114.8 1.9 60ft
3rd: 12.4 @ 113 1.9 60ft
BBR Vendor Peeps read below please!!!
Now to get where I think I may be having issues with my tune. If you remember from my last time I went out I had serious issues with traction when the car would shift to 2nd. The initial launch was fine but as soon as 2nd would come it would spin, the ass end would lose traction and start fish tailing some and I would have to let out the gas, let it recover and then get back on it. I figured it was the track prep, tires and power of the car. Well, I had the same 2nd gear issues this time I went out. The first pass was really bad. I really think its something in the tune as I talked to the other guys there and they said they weren't experiencing anything like that with their cars. They would just punch the gas and go. No 2nd gear spin or anything. I don't know if its maybe the shift pressure, doesn't feel hard to me compared to my 07' I had but who knows. Of course the tune is locked down so I can't play with that (lower it). I will say this though, even on the street at times it does seem to hit into 2nd kind of hard. Edit: Wanted to elaborate that this isn't going WOT either. It'll do this on the street even at 1/2 throttle or lower sometimes. Anyone is welcomed to let me know what ya think. And of course thank you S197 for your help.
Sunday was some amazing weather so I figured it would be good to go back to the track and see what she puts down. The only chnage this time time to the car was the new wheels and tires. Tires are 275/40 Continental ExtremeContact DW. Like I said before the weather was awaesome. I believe it was 60* out and only 30% humidity.
Now I'll get to my issue I think I have in a second but I'm pretty happy with the times. It was so packed there today over at SCR that I didn't make my first run until an hour and 45 minutes after I got there. But I did meet a few other guys with 5.0's, all auto btw, so that was cool to talk with them. There were 2 5.0's there with the following mods and nothing more that were running 12.1 and 12.2's.
GB 5.0: Pro Cal tune, stock intake, FR Xpipe(I think) and ET streets. 12.1
Black 5.0: JMS Tune, stock intake, OR X, BBR lca and NT555's 12.2
Basically just a tune for the most part is the way I see it and the were running low low 12's! Jeezums... Now I went expecting 12.5's maybe but low 12's wow. Now when I heard that I was excited because I was like awesome! All this good weather and maybe good track prep and I'll be right with them. Not quite. Oh I did finally break 1.9 60fts! Yay! Guess those 275's help quite I bit.
My passes as follows:
1st: 12.9 @ 112(?) 1.9 60ft
2nd: 12.3 @ 114.8 1.9 60ft
3rd: 12.4 @ 113 1.9 60ft
BBR Vendor Peeps read below please!!!
Now to get where I think I may be having issues with my tune. If you remember from my last time I went out I had serious issues with traction when the car would shift to 2nd. The initial launch was fine but as soon as 2nd would come it would spin, the ass end would lose traction and start fish tailing some and I would have to let out the gas, let it recover and then get back on it. I figured it was the track prep, tires and power of the car. Well, I had the same 2nd gear issues this time I went out. The first pass was really bad. I really think its something in the tune as I talked to the other guys there and they said they weren't experiencing anything like that with their cars. They would just punch the gas and go. No 2nd gear spin or anything. I don't know if its maybe the shift pressure, doesn't feel hard to me compared to my 07' I had but who knows. Of course the tune is locked down so I can't play with that (lower it). I will say this though, even on the street at times it does seem to hit into 2nd kind of hard. Edit: Wanted to elaborate that this isn't going WOT either. It'll do this on the street even at 1/2 throttle or lower sometimes. Anyone is welcomed to let me know what ya think. And of course thank you S197 for your help.
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Much help. Good to know that my times are about right. As soon as work dies down some here, I'll give ya call. Thanks again!
