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Drag times

60-foot times are heavily influenced by track conditions also.  A wet,
greasy, or dirty launch area can really hamstring your efforts.  Some tracks
are kept clean, some are not.....
A low-traction launch area will hurt a front-driver more than a rear-driver.
(are S2000's rear-drive?)

Larry

----- Original Message -----
From: Dan Bubb <jdbubb@ix.netcom.com>
To: Lauri Pettai <lauri.pettai@netexpress.ee>; scirocco list
<scirocco-l@scirocco.org>
Sent: Sunday, June 09, 2002 1:00 PM
Subject: Re: Drag times


> The times look pretty reasonable although I don't know all the details of
> your car, but your 60 ft times are lousy!
> I've gotten 2.4 60 ft times regularly on street tires. I'm thinking you
need
> to launch a lot less aggressively. If you could knock a second off your 60
> ft. your 1/4 mile would be really impressive.
> So, how did you end up tuning your engine management? I seem to remember
> that you were initially disappointed with the performance with the
throttle
> bodies.
> Dan
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Lauri Pettai <lauri.pettai@netexpress.ee>
> To: scirocco list <scirocco-l@scirocco.org>
> Sent: Sunday, June 09, 2002 1:26 PM
> Subject: Drag times
>
>
> > I took my badger5 setup to drag strip to see what it does there.
> > My best ET was 14.733 reaction 0.654 and speed 94.43mph.
> > What bothers me is my 60 feet time. How would you comment
> > 3.312 sec 60 feet time on street tyres (Hankook Ventus K102 silica
> > 195/50/15")?
> >
> > BTW, I was 3rd on my class, (less than 2 litres), I only couldn't beat
> > those 2 Honda S2000 cars, but I was catching up to one of them,
> > he only got better 60ft time 2.7s against my 3.3s, but later our
> > times were 14.922 mine and 14,658 he's so I caught up 0,2s! :)
> >
> > Lauri!
> > '84 2.0 16v Scirocco GTX Kamei X1 Bodykit (VIN025736)
> > http://www.eabc.edu.ee/~laurts/scirocco
> > I finally added something new to my site!
> >
> >
> >
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