Racing in the Snow

[2012Coyote]

First of all, I was planning on taking my car out to the Spring Warmup in Norwalk on Saturday. I loaded the car up at 5:50am on Saturday (I'm sure the neighbors loved it), it was cold, about 38*, but perfectly clear sky. I took the car into work at 8, and by 8:40, it started snow... hard. I was pretty upset mostly because it was the first time my car had been snowed on in over 2 years, but also because the race probably wasn't going to happen, so I called Summit Motorsports Park, which is about 20 minutes west of Wellington, asking if they were cancelling the Warm Up. She said it was sunny with blue skies and it was all dried up and racing was going on Gotta love Ohio weather.



Anyway, enough of that. I took it out after work to try out the new setup. It snowed off and on the whole time I was there, but it never stuck so they didn't even slow the racing down. What's different now is the ET Street DR's, the simulated 2 step, and a Swarr Bar. I set the fake 2 step to 3500rpm and dumped the clutch as fast as I could. It bit hard and bogged each time but it moved out.





I killed my personal best and it feels like there's more there. I have 22.5# of Nitrogen in the ET DR's, 38 up front. Launching at 3500 rpm I was only pulling 1.8x 60 ft's, with the exception of the 1.79. Am I accurate in assuming it's capable of a 1.6x 60'?

Suspension mods:
FRPP P-Springs
FRPP LCAs
That's it.

 

[Mike K]

What was the DA? Your car is moving that's for sure.

The track was supposed to open last Saturday but with all the snow I didn't even bother calling.

 

[TGR96]

Nice!

 

[2012Coyote]

What was the DA? Your car is moving that's for sure.

The track was supposed to open last Saturday but with all the snow I didn't even bother calling.

DA was -589 ft according to http://wahiduddin.net/calc/calc_hp_dp.htm

 

[Mike K]

Well that helps. Lol. Nice runs.

 

[2012Coyote]

Well that helps. Lol. Nice runs.

Yea you aren't kidding lol. If I can launch at a higher RPM, hopefully it won't bog as bad and I won't be losing much of that even at a higher DA

 

[grabber197]

First of all, I was planning on taking my car out to the Spring Warmup in Norwalk on Saturday. I loaded the car up at 5:50am on Saturday (I'm sure the neighbors loved it), it was cold, about 38*, but perfectly clear sky. I took the car into work at 8, and by 8:40, it started snow... hard. I was pretty upset mostly because it was the first time my car had been snowed on in over 2 years, but also because the race probably wasn't going to happen, so I called Summit Motorsports Park, which is about 20 minutes west of Wellington, asking if they were cancelling the Warm Up. She said it was sunny with blue skies and it was all dried up and racing was going on Gotta love Ohio weather.



Anyway, enough of that. I took it out after work to try out the new setup. It snowed off and on the whole time I was there, but it never stuck so they didn't even slow the racing down. What's different now is the ET Street DR's, the simulated 2 step, and a Swarr Bar. I set the fake 2 step to 3500rpm and dumped the clutch as fast as I could. It bit hard and bogged each time but it moved out.





I killed my personal best and it feels like there's more there. I have 22.5# of Nitrogen in the ET DR's, 38 up front. Launching at 3500 rpm I was only pulling 1.8x 60 ft's, with the exception of the 1.79. Am I accurate in assuming it's capable of a 1.6x 60'?

Suspension mods:
FRPP P-Springs
FRPP LCAs
That's it.

I've cut a 1.68 on stock suspension. 275x60x15 et streets mounted on racestars. Running my 18s up front

 

[2012Coyote]

I've cut a 1.68 on stock suspension. 275x60x15 et streets mounted on racestars. Running my 18s up front

I'd be really happy with a 1.68. I'm rolling on my 20x10.5's up front lol

 

[Shotokan1509]

Hhaha Ive also been, and one of our guys was running 9's in it (and letting off)