First trip to the track with the 5.0
 

Went to the track with no cats, no mufflers, stock tune, and 1/4 tank of fuel. Tires were around 40 psi. About 20 mph headwind I think. I'm car #38, left lane all 3 runs

Overall track prep was ok but not great(by the 9th pass overall, the tires weren't sticking and popping like they normally do). And the track workers had no clue wtf they were doing lol

First pass was against my buddy's ecoboost f150 super crew 2wd. He tried launching at 1500 rpm but with the torque he's making after intake, tune, and exhaust he just spun. My best pass
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Second pass
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Then I had to wait like an hour and a half just to get a run cause the workers kept letting the motorcycles and slick tire cars go instead of street tire cars. Finally the owner got pissed off and made the street tire cars run, but when I was 3rd in line they stopped cause of a few sprinkles of rain. Then when I was about to go they paused again for a couple more sprinkles. So by then the track prep was crappy and my tires were pretty cold
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Normally I'm able to do around 15 passes but not today. Some honorable mentions were a LP570-4 superleggara gallardo running 11s(plate said busakiller, lololol) and a nissan GTR which ended up wrecking after I had left. Also had my salesman talking shit to me about being slow(he races sports bikes there and is building a 89 chevy truck with lsx and turbo)

Saw Brent's car out there but didn't get to talk to him. Sorry about that!

Need a tune for not having cats.

Yeah I know. Just can't decide which handheld I wanna go with

So your times got slower each time with the same mph it looks like. Manual transmission right?

-Alex

Auto trans. First 2 runs were in drive, last run I put it in sport mode but let it shft itself

Ah gotcha. What does sport mode alter?

-Alex

I think higher shift points and takes longer to downshift, but not exactly sure

So you were out at little river with Brent then? He told us on Facebook about the GTR tagging both guard rails after his brakes locked up.

Yeah saw him out there. Never had a chance to say hi though

Sucks for the gtr.

Awesome numbers on an auto transmission. Typically I would start the shift from 1st gear and move on up as opposed to start from D but I will like to see how both methods could produce different times.

It doesnt seem that not having a tune for cats is hurting the car.

I agree. Running the car untuned removing the cats is a bad idea.

What other 1/4 mile tracks in TX have you raced on? I ask because I've been to about all of them, and LR consistently has the best starting line of them all. The starter there, Tommy, is regularly hired to work big events at other tracks, or to come in and fix problem tracks.

I know that Tommy gets hired for other events and stuff, I'm not a noob to that track. But I know last spring I could go out there and for the first 10-15 overall passes, I could hear my tires sticking to the track then the prep popping when I would roll up to the line

I've also had other nights when my trucks would spin like crazy off the line