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Drag racing (for the 2nd time)
His starting line technique may have something to do with the high 60' times...... (see his previous post)
Larry
----- Original Message -----
From: Ryan H
To: koabi
Cc: scirocco-l@scirocco.org
Sent: Saturday, May 10, 2003 3:04 PM
Subject: Re: RE: Drag racing (for the 2nd time)
Well, for one, you need to improve those 60' times. I've been doing 2.3 second 60' with crappy tires. But that might be a side effect of the problem, not the source of it.
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> From: "koabi" <koabi@seeohdee.com>
> Date: 2003/05/10 Sat PM 03:30:52 EDT
> To: "'Ryan H'" <rhock99@epix.net>
> Subject: RE: Drag racing (for the 2nd time)
>
> Ok here are the full specs of my car:
>
> 9A with 1.8 16v head, digifant, neuspeed 268 cams (this has not been
> verified though), 2.25 mandrel bent exhaust of some sort, vr6 muffler,
> lightened flywheel, ABA headgasket (supposedly bumps up compression a
> bit).
>
> 2.572 and 2.651 60 foot times. I was somewhere between 3.5k and 4k rpm
> and just dumped the clutch.
>
> I heard this motor was abused before I ended up with it... so maybe a
> compression check is needed.
>
> The most depressing thing of that evening was:
> The same year/model of Accord that my girlfriend has ran a faster time
> than my car did. SO DEPRESSING!
>
> Thanks for the tips,
> koabi
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ryan H [mailto:rhock99@epix.net]
> Sent: Saturday, May 10, 2003 12:05 PM
> To: koabi
> Cc: scirocco-l@scirocco.org
> Subject: Re: Drag racing (for the 2nd time)
>
> No, you should definitely be faster. In my heavy 16V, with nothing more
> than an exhaust and fuel module, I run consistent 15.9x @ 86. And
> that's a 1.8L. Check your timing settings, check your compression, and
> also play with the DPR setting (wait, Digifant, nevermind). And how's
> your launch technique? 60 foot times? My best launches were dumping
> the clutch at 4000rpm. Fun!
>
> >
> > From: "koabi" <koabi@seeohdee.com>
> > Date: 2003/05/10 Sat PM 02:41:25 EDT
> > To: <scirocco-l@scirocco.org>
> > Subject: Drag racing (for the 2nd time)
> >
> > I was talked into drag racing my car yesterday... here is a before and
> > after comparison
> >
> > Before: 2.0 16v w/CIS-E
> > 17.077 @ ??
> > 18.004 @ 77.94
> >
> > After: 2.0 16v w/Digifant I
> > 17.007 @ 81.31
> > 17.217 @ 80.83
> >
> > I'm pretty sure this is not where the car should be, but at least the
> > digifant didn't take anything away ...
> >
> > koabi
> >
> >
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