BIR update 7/16/14:
Best passes:
About 17 passes in 3 hrs:
So the night started with only 1/8 mile passes, I honestly thought it was going to get a low 11, maybe a 10.99
The first pass was a 7.325@95.86 with a 1.67 60', sadly I forgot to log it.
I'm still launching the car as usual, but with the aid of the vacuum pump, its a lot easier to hold back.
2nd pass I try the right lane, 7.386@88 with a 1.70 60'. I didn't go back in time, but I'm not 100% sure where the 1/8th mile marker is.
3rd, I go back to the left lane where I try to stay the rest of the night. It just feels comfortable.
60' - 1.70
1/8th - 7.36
mph - 96.63
So about pass 4-5 something like that, Nick suggests I try to run the tree and really use this vacuum pump.
So this time I just turn on the pump, footbrake the car at the 1st staging light, get RPMs up then bump forward to the second light, then build boost and bam!
R/T of .267
I wasn't expecting that, neither was the big loud muscle car thing next to me, it was hilarious because he was looking over at me like WTF and I was looking at him like WTF I'm outtie!
Basically this is how I feel about it, replace the words in this description to:
When you get to drag race an auto DSM and you find it has a vacuum pump.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LpZEUPoMYok&hd=1
Ok so pass number 8-9 i guess I go for it.
60' - 1.65
1/8 - 7.30
1/8 mph - 96.00
1/4 - 11.400
1/4 mph - 118.79
Get the slip and I'm sure that's a new PB et for me, but I was hoping for another 5 mph and a low 11.3 or 11.2
OH well, night isn't over and it's the first time with the car at the track in 2 years, party on!
Next pass
60' - 1.741
1/8 - 7.361
1/8 mph - 96.69
1/4 - 11.422
1/4 mph - 120
PB passes:
60' - 1.655
1/8 - 7.270
1/8 mph - 96.74
1/4 - 11.333
1/4 - 119.94
followed by:
60' - 1.715
1/8 - 7.326
1/8 mph - 96.74
1/4 - 11.393
1/4 mph - 119.77
Rest of the night is a good time just running the cars, ran a bunch against Andre which was awesome I think apart from a turbo 5.3L than was in the 140mph trap area not sure on ET, we were the quickest there.
I run a few more 11.4 to 11.8s, one run I launch and the car is out of gas it cuts out, which was funny to me because I thought about it about 3-4 runs earlier.
If this isn't a clue, my gas gauge doesn't work the best and I haven't driven the car enough to care or worry about it.
I'm fully addicted to drag racing, maybe even more than before. I'd really like to get some cams in, but that's a decent amount of coin that I don't have right now and time.
Vids to come. (If I don't fail horribly, which I did with one of the cameras I was turning it off at the start of each pass and turning it on in the return lane. hahaha)