New best 1/4 mile ET and MPH
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New best 1/4 mile ET and MPH
Saturday was a full day of drag racing in New Jersey. Vette magazine all corvette show in the morning and ECSC corvette challenge in the afternoon. I guess I got all fired up for the first round of eliminations in the morning and broke out bigtime! But the timeslip is practically a freak compared to my others - 13.694 @ 105.05 mph :eek: My previous fastest mph was 103.9.
I guess i need to mention... but I am sure it happened too late to make a difference.... right before the finish line I blew my exhaust pipe right off the muffler!! :eek: i mean, the passengerside rear exhaust seperated from the inlet side of the muffler...(Flowmaster 50) Must be a lot of back pressure. But I can't believe the extra horsepower from an uncapped exhaust (one side only) made that big a difference.... it happened really late (or I would have shut down, it sounded pretty strange and I didnt know what happened)
I got into the 13s a couple more times, 13.937 @ 103.59, but a few 14.2s and 14.5s also. I am very inconsistent and suck at bracket racing. Track got really slick as the day went on. :) MJ
I guess i need to mention... but I am sure it happened too late to make a difference.... right before the finish line I blew my exhaust pipe right off the muffler!! :eek: i mean, the passengerside rear exhaust seperated from the inlet side of the muffler...(Flowmaster 50) Must be a lot of back pressure. But I can't believe the extra horsepower from an uncapped exhaust (one side only) made that big a difference.... it happened really late (or I would have shut down, it sounded pretty strange and I didnt know what happened)
I got into the 13s a couple more times, 13.937 @ 103.59, but a few 14.2s and 14.5s also. I am very inconsistent and suck at bracket racing. Track got really slick as the day went on. :) MJ
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Re: New best 1/4 mile ET and MPH (SuperFast80)
Damn! I'm impressed :cheers:
looks like we'll have to line up if I can ever get mine back on the road :yesnod:
looks like we'll have to line up if I can ever get mine back on the road :yesnod:
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Re: New best 1/4 mile ET and MPH (ED DINAPOLI)
Mark,
Great improvement. Congrats. I'll bet you had the sh$t scared out of you when the muffler blew. :eek:
Ed
Great improvement. Congrats. I'll bet you had the sh$t scared out of you when the muffler blew. :eek:
Ed
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Re: New best 1/4 mile ET and MPH (MNJack)
Geez Mark, you're making all us stock L36 owners look bad! 13.6 with one muffler! Maybe if you add a set of exhaust cut-outs you'll be in the 12s? :eek:
What did you use to fix the exhaust, another soup can? :lolg:
What did you use to fix the exhaust, another soup can? :lolg: