I went to the track last friday for test and tune. I wanted to get a baseline to see where I am. My first run ended up being my best run. The car was heat soaked from driving 3 hours plus renting the dyno for an hour before the track. I was able to get one run in when the car had cooled off, but I spun so badly I ran a 14.0x
rt .419
60' 2.150
330 5.794
1/8 8.769
mph 82.50
1000 11.309
1/4 13.442
mph 105.60

I was running at full street trim minus a spare tire and jack. The car is a 98 GXE with full leater i30 interior. I was running on my 18" enkei RP02's. Now the stuff that you guys want to know:
3.5 swap
VLSD tranny
JWT S1 knockoff cams
JWT POP charger
NWP spacers and BOP (otherwise stock FWD intake manifold)
JWT ECU
VAFCII
OBX headers
Catco high flow cat
Cattman 3" exhaust

Over all I am very happy with the results, I think 12's are possible just with smaller wheels and tires. I had traction problems the whole night, but once the car cooled down when I shifted to second at redline it felt like I was doing a rolling burn out I am even spinning 3rd gear pretty hard which was surprising to me. Next time I go to the track I will have tires. I also think I may see good gains from a SSIM. I have a few videos but of course I don't have my best run. I'll try to get them up soon. Post away.

 

thats juicy!!! you want to do a 3.5 swap in my 5th? lol

 

Nice time Carson! Sorry I couldn't get that piece out to you in time for the track.

 

cant wait to see your results on slicks

 

Me too. I just did not have enough time to get everything together. Since I was already driving a few hours away to dyno, I was just trying to tie everything together while I was in the area. I still need to figure out the smallest wheel I can fit over my 12.8" brakes/with superlites. Even with these times I was surprising a lot of people, a lot of people were surprised when I had my hood poped and I did not have any forced induction

 

How much $$ do you have??


Thanks Paul!! Swap your Green car???

 

if i dont sell mine, hit me up w/ some numbers....either way if i keep this car i need to drop in a motor..DE-k cheap way, but if i can get a 3.5 swapped in in a weekend for about the same i'm game

got local issues that prevent me from being able to get an engine put in my car right now. let me know, seriously

 

Niceee! How did the dyno session go?

 

Good. I want to make a dyno thread but I don't know how to view these .drt files. If I cannot figure it out I will scan in a print out I have.

 

Have you tried winpep?

 

nope, do you think you have something that can open them? If so send me an email at my screen name here @yahoo.com I will forward the files to you.

 

Email sent

 

Niiiiiiiiiiiiiiiccee Carson! Plan on throwing the SC on anytime soon?

 

Id like to what he'd run with slicks, SSIM and emanage to tune the timing a bit.

 

no time soon. I want to get this n/a set up a little bit faster then I will do the s/c. I want to see 12's n/a.

SSIM will probably be my next mod when I have some time, and I will have slicks before I go to the track again. I kinda doubt I will do emanage, but you never know.

 

gotcha, btw, i may have missed it in your build thread, but are you using upgrade rod bolts or head studs?

 

I have arp rod bolts and HR head studs installed.

 

Nice numbers. 12s are definitely within reach. Get some 15" wheels with some 24.5 slicks and you'll be there.

 

I don't want to put stock brakes back on my car.

 

Well that's gonna make getting a nice tire pretty hard then.

 

DAMN NICE TIMES....

 

I know.

 

I know how you feel. I can't fit 15" wheels on my car and that is what is limiting me.

 

17 slicks, ssim, calling 12.5-12.6s as is... so what did it dyno?

 

They don't make any slicks that fit a 17" wheel.

 

They do, but they're rare. http://moesperformance.com/index.php...ducts_id=12401

Of course, I'm not so sure about buying tires from a company where no one knows how to spell 'diameter'.

 

Good luck with a 28" tire.

 

http://www.turbobuick.com/forums/par...0r17s-new.html

saw these while surfing the org, you may be interested

 

That's a 28" tall tire. That won't work well for his combo.

 

here is a picture that the track photographer took of my car.

 

sessi!!

 

God I love these wheels. Once again Carson when your done with these let me know

 

What was the DA for the day?

 

Not sure where to find that. But I think that the slip that I posted I ran around 6-7 pm. I was at Virginia Motorsports Park, in Dinwiddie VA.

 

Looks like the DA was 580. I was curious to see if better weather would get you a few more tenths but it looks like the conditions were pretty good.

 

yeah, the weather was not bad at all. As the sun went down it was getting more humid though.

 

this car have 5mt or 4at?

 

5 speed

 

thank!

 

hey carson glad to see you got her out to the track! good numbers and time, nicely done overall!