first time at track, need help with slicks
 

okay i went to the track in my new car, eg hatch with only front seats and lexan windows, gsr, skunk2 manifold and was running 22x8x15 slicks. my 60 ft sucks balls and the lowest i could run it was a 15.4 when the old owner ran it 8.2 in the 1/8th mile. i would pull up to the water box and spin them a little, pull up about a foot out of the box and just burn them in second with the E-brake on until it started to pull me. let off, stage, and rev to 7000. green i would drop the 6 puck clutch and it would spin them and i would shift at around 85-9000 and it would bog to 3000 once in second then pick up from there. the other two runs i tried launching at 6000 and 6500 with the same result. anybody have a tips or advice on what psi or rpm to launch at?
my slip:
R/T .546
60' 2.632
330' 7.068
1/8 10.466
MPH 72.55
1000 13.314
1/4 15.493
MPH 93.46

please any help would be very helpfull :y

Re: first time at track, need help with slicks
 

peg it off the rev limiter and use the ebrake to preload your suspension. :6 :6 :6

Re: first time at track, need help with slicks
 

i'll post pics tomorrow

Re: first time at track, need help with slicks
 

drop the pressure damnit. what they at now?

Re: first time at track, need help with slicks
 

that is a consistant low, low 15 to high 14 time slip. i would suggest running on street tires and seeing what it will do. i know my old n/a 15.5 run was only at 88mph. but my 60 time was a 2.4. when i went turbo i never got a chance to run slicks so i cant be much of a help to you there. but i do knwo street tires are not somethign you want o launch hard with!

NEUMAN

Re: first time at track, need help with slicks
 

on 22" slicks u should be able to get at least 1.8 60' :-\ Do a nice fatty 2nd gear and u should be good to go. 2.6 60' would be shitty even on free beef tires :-X

Re: first time at track, need help with slicks
 

you need more practice- my first day at the track with my new car (and 1st fast manual car) about a week after buying it

EG Si
Full Interior
DC 4-2-1, 2.25" piping to stock muffler ( :X )
street tires (yok ES 100) on gsr webs
OBD-1 GSR w/ skunk2 IM

pulled a 15.7 by the end of the day, and before I put in the big cams I managed to pull a 14.8 out of my ass, but this was open header with no rear interior and I knew more about tire pressures and improved my 60' by a ---- ton

lexan windows and slicks? i say low 14 once you learn to drive it.

when you burnout on slicks, you BURNOUT. rev-limit clutch drop and keep it floored until you cant see out the side windows. and I don't think you full wrapped out 1st gear when you are shifting. a gsr trans going from 1st @ 8k to 2nd, shouldn't drop below 5k, with no bogging at all. on steelies i chirped 3rd gear pretty easily with the stock cams :6

Re: first time at track, need help with slicks
 

i might go friday again and work on the launch. i was shiftign at around 8.5-9 and it would just bog hard. the pressure is at 10 psi on the slicks. might try just launching off the rev limit :-\

Re: first time at track, need help with slicks
 

You are launchinf to high, I ran a 15.3 at 91 mph in CRX with a B18b, first time at the track, i tried to launch at 4k and did what you did a bogged into second, my last run for the 15.3 I still spun but I launched around 2k....I'd say start launching from @ and work your was up till you find a good medium, but its better to launch low than just spin your wheels, just takes some practice i need to go again, I'm hoping to get my times to 15 flat or high 14s with better launch and a good tune up which my motor needed bad ;)

Re: first time at track, need help with slicks
 

whats the setup?? i hope its not turbocharged :P