timeslip page
vortech S-Trim
Here are some of my time slips (please don't laugh - I know the 60 foot times suck). As you can see this car basically can’t hook to save it’s life. Since the addition of the blower, traction in 1st, 2nd, and 3rd has been limited at best. I have yet to make a full throttle pass in the car. In order to get it down the track I basically feather it out of the hole, granny shift, and usually lift once or twice just to keep it straight. In runs 3, 4, and 5 the car was CA smog legal, with cats, the weather was about 85 degrees, fairly humid, but it was a nice clear day. The only change in runs 1 and 2 was that I added an off road h-pipe in place of the cats, the weather here was cooler, about 75 degrees, but still not ideal HP conditions. I'd really like to take it out on a 50 - 60 degree day, with no humidity, and have some decent barometric pressure. All these runs are on a small Mc Creary G60 DOT street tire (only an 8" tire). The formula for this car seems to be pretty simple, the longer you can stay in it, the faster it goes.
Number
Date
60ft
330ft
1/8 et
1/8 mph
1/4 et
1/4 mph
1
10/24/98
2.067
5.397
7.959
96.97
11.906
126.74
2
10/24/98
1.99
5.468
8.072
95.3
12.071
124.6
3
07/0498
2.072
5.664
8.323
94
12.393
121.24
4
07/0498
2.205
5.801
8.473
93.65
12.572
120.11
5
07/0498
2.246
5.887
8.574
93.58
12.656
122.98
Naturally aspirated
The runs listed below are when the car was naturally aspirated. All these runs were on factory 16" "Pony" wheels. I used two tires during this time, a 245/50 Goodyear GSC and later a 255/50 BFG Drag Radial. The Drag Radials definitely helped get the 12 second pass, but I think I probably could have made it into the 12's on the GSC’s if I’d just taken the time to try. My primary goal was to have a sleeper (with the stock rims) run in the 12’s on the motor alone, and it happened, so I was very happy. The car was in smog legal trim for all of these runs, in fact about a month after the 12.9 run, the car passed the CA smog test. Probably the most interesting point here is to look at the table below, and compare it to the "blower" table above. Specifically look at the 60 & 330ft times, you'll note that the car is hardly any faster with the blower than it was naturally aspirated, which gives you some idea of how serious my traction problems are.
Number
Date
60ft
330ft
1/8 et
1/8 mph
1/4 et
1/4 mph
1
11/08/97
2.026
5.527
8.408
86.08
12.968
107.95
2
11/15/97
n/a
5.626
8.501
85.37
13.084
107.54
3
11/15/97
2.149
5.713
8.588
85.85
13.152
108.04
4
10/18/97
2.076
5.645
8.56
84.83
13.183
106.85
5
11/08/97
2.134
5.743
8.636
85.95
13.181
108.61
6
10/18/97
2.126
5.672
8.588
84.56
13.206
106.72
7
10/11/97
2.15
5.693
8.595
85.12
13.207
107.07
8
10/18/97
2.114
5.695
8.618
85.12
13.21
107.43
9
10/11/97
2.118
5.702
8.625
84.65
13.243
107.27
10
10/18/97
2.18
5.758
8.672
84.75
13.282
107.23
11
10/18/97
2.158
5.76
8.691
84.24
13.334
106.49
12
10/18/97
2.138
5.786
8.72
86.32
13.347
106.89