Thread: Going to the track for the 1st time any advice?

hey guys ill post the video as soon as i get them i was glad my dad and i had a grudge match my gtp vs his 76 vette with a mildly built 327

for now my best run was a 15.02 with a .578 RT now reaction time counts against your 1/4 mile time correct?? which means the car with a perfect launch can run 14.5s ??

No...reaction has nothing to do with it. They don't start timing it until you actually hit the pedal. You could sit there for 30 seconds it doesn't matter. What was your 60 foot?

For every .1 on the 60' you take off...thats an average of .25 in the 1/4. So...if you would have had a good launch...say...a 2.0 60 foot...the nyou would have been close to that 14.5. But...sounds like the car is knocking just a tad. That's a really low trap speed even for stock. My stock car went 95 with the headlight/air filter out.

alright well if i can get a pulley puller im dropin my pulley and my friend (worked for slp 15 yrs) is going to tune it claimes he can tune it for a 3.4 with no knock so we shall see

Ya a 3.4" with no knock and MODS. DO not drop pulley sizes without reading this...and I bet your friend can NOT tune out a 3.5" or a 3.4" on a bone stock car...that's ignorant.

http://www.grandprixforums.net/safel...car-17482.html

you should get headers anyway, it will only help you

^^^agreed and thats no fun

Originally Posted by xsvtank

ikik i hear it all the time ill see but im doing rockers and headers over the winter anyways lets chill here if i break my **** i break it

Hey man we are just trying to save you some money.... ALOT of money. Chipping a piston or pistons will cost you proably more than your car is worth. I'd wait to drop pulley sizes until after you do the rockers, headers, and proably should go with a downpipe, u-bend delete ect. But thats my $0.02.

Best, Lenny

Well thats like saying...if I light this match next to a gas pump...might die...but I might die.

That's ignorant dude.

Resonator does nothing to help exhaust flow...all it does is make your exhaust sound horrible. You still have 2 out of the 3 restrictive parts of the exhaust...the downpipe and the front manifold. Plus...if your car is knocking...its just gonna go slower in the 1/4 anyways than stock.