Eric Fischer

Many of you that know as from e-town know that we converted my Dad's LT4 corvette to an A4 using stock components from a 1996 LT1.

We have been testing the car over the past few weeks at Raceway Park, Englishtown, NJ and the results have been remarkable despite the hot weather. We are running et's consistently in 12.6's to 12.7's and in the cooler weather last wednesday went a 12.48.

Other mods include a GM hot cam, 4:10 gears, BFG 315 DR's and a heavy duty radiator with a 160 thermo. Most everything else on the car is stock including the stock exhaust manifolds (it does have Borla mufflers though).

We converted the car primarily because we use it as a drag car, and unfortunately my Dad had a helluva a time driving the 6M consistently (he's not the only one). Plus I got tired of changing worn out clutches every three months ;) .

So if consistentcy was the goal, then the car has far exceeded our expectations. Check out the data below. My Dad took 2nd place in the GM Hi Tech performance race in the AM session on July 14th. He handed the keys to me for the PM session of the Cartek Corvette Challenge, were I lost to REDGAR in the semi's. As John Mackey says, converting to an A4 was "the best thing you could ever do!"

The most amazing thing has been the improvement in the 60' time. With the 6M, an average day would yeild 60' that were anywhere from 1.85 to 2.00. We considered a 1.80 to be VERY good. The A4 rarely has a 60' greater than 1.80.

We will be looking for very low 12's once the weather turns cool. And who knows, maybe next we'll port the heads!



Note: bold entries in the table above are new personal records.

Mr Mojo

Great job racing and excellent job on the conversion. :cheers:

BLISS

Eric, great to see your mods brought up the car to Z06 E/T's. However, the fun it all I bet is priceless. Awesome job on the progress tracking, and hope to speak more next time @ track. Wait until Fall .... you may be looking at a very low 12 or high 11 :D

pkmoose

with the auto I bet your dad has no problems with a burnout either :)
those 60' times look great :yesnod:
Congrats on yesterday :cheers:

mackeyred96

Super job.
I couldn't tell you how happy I was for Bill when I found out he had made it to the finals.
I think in a short amount of time he will be one to watch.
Congrats Bill and Eric.

Eric Fischer

Thanks all for the compliments.

We would love to hit the 11's or low 12's in the fall. I think it may top out around a 12.1x though, but who knows.

And yes Pat, burnouts are quite a bit easier for my Dad now.

I forgot to mention that the converter is a Precision Industries Vigilante, 3000 stall.

Also some people have asked for some "before" data.

Here's some data from last year. The car was in the same configuration except with the 6M and with a single mass flywheel. I picked a day that had similar weather conditions to this past Saturday.

REDGAR

Eric I have some pictures i took of the car I going to put up soon including your Dad's finals run in the R1 class. Maybe tonight.

By the way, in like the note in row 18 ;)

Eric Fischer

Double post


[Modified by Eric Fischer, 5:27 PM 7/16/2002]

Tony.96LT4

Eric & Bill:Great job on a really fine looking car. I noticed at the 3rd Challenge how your car just squatted and shot out of the hole! Then I found out why. Really fine job of wrench turning. As a fellow LT4 owner I'll be keeping an eye on your progress. :cheers: :cheers: