Put the New Skinnies & DR's to Work (Media Heavy)

[WatchThis]

So I took my car to the track last night to see what I could do with her. I was only able to make a few passes but I'm pretty happy with the car as it sits. Got the chance to run a Cobra and a C6 (i'm pretty sure anyway) and then a bye run right before they closed it down. I got a video of each run both on my GoPro and from my wife who was at the fence on the starting line along with some pictures as well. Anyway, here's the eye candy

First run was this Cobra... (forgive the wife, she turned her phone sideways without thinking about it)

https://youtu.be/NUMQwLMekZs

GoPro of the run:

https://youtu.be/zeaMUsnFQ00

And the Timeslip:



The next run was me and the Vette. It was obvious the guy was trying to figure out his setup because he seemed to be having a hard time all night.

https://youtu.be/XfA5EWFiuzY

GoPro:

https://youtu.be/VVNQMPe5AZc

And the Timeslip:



And then the last run of the night was a bye run right before they closed:

https://youtu.be/6BEyDXAyxag

GoPro:

https://youtu.be/734RrJKGS58

Timeslip:





Obviously those sixty foots need to come down considering I've got 325 M&H's on the rear but it seemed like the main problem is the fact that I can't get my brakes to hold the car if I bring the rpm's up any higher than ~1500ish. If I could launch from higher in the rpm range then I'm sure those short times would come down and I could get this thing in the high 10's. The obvious fix for that would be what, a converter and a 2-step? I'd like to get her consistently in the 10's as it sits right now but realistically, this was my first real test and tune with the car anyway so I'm alright with it. Here are a few more pics, just because

[nightmaro10]

There is so so much more in your car! Can't wait to see what she does if you hook and get some cooler weather!! Great job man!

[2010reddevil]

Yeah man, you need a converter bad. With that stock converter being so tight, you're overpowering the front tires ability to hold you still. Otherwise, just load up the drivetrain enough to get the slack out and hammer it out of the hole. I had the same issues with my 3V and stock converter.

[Unreal]

Converter will easily drop 1/2 second off that time. Should be a solid mid 10 second car with converter and some work on that 60'.

[Ron_Robinson1]

That track is pretty sweet, no helmet needed in the 11s.

Solid car my friend.

[FKNGRSY]

No helmet? If I ran sub 11.50 here I would get booted. No cage no sub 11.50.

Car looks great, gonna order my welds here asap.

[Bad70supreme]

Very nice, what mods?

[bhillakaiceberg]

Awesome work! What mods you got?

[10aSSee D]

Nice runs!! For sure a 10 second car.

[AITI]

Originally Posted by 2010reddevil

Yeah man, you need a converter bad. With that stock converter being so tight, you're overpowering the front tires ability to hold you still. Otherwise, just load up the drivetrain enough to get the slack out and hammer it out of the hole. I had the same issues with my 3V and stock converter.

I agree. 10 sec car easy with the right stall converter.

[WatchThis]

Originally Posted by nightmaro10

There is so so much more in your car! Can't wait to see what she does if you hook and get some cooler weather!! Great job man!

Thanks man, yeah in cooler weather this thing would be a beast. It was in the upper 80's, low 90's but it was pretty humid so the air was pretty thick.

Originally Posted by 2010reddevil

Yeah man, you need a converter bad. With that stock converter being so tight, you're overpowering the front tires ability to hold you still. Otherwise, just load up the drivetrain enough to get the slack out and hammer it out of the hole. I had the same issues with my 3V and stock converter.

Yeah the fact that I could bring the rpm' up to launch was the only thing really holding me back. I knew the stock converter was pretty tight but I didn't think it would be THAT bad.

Originally Posted by Unreal

Converter will easily drop 1/2 second off that time. Should be a solid mid 10 second car with converter and some work on that 60'.

Ya think so bro? If I could get this thing in the mid to low 10's I'd be extremely happy for sure.

Originally Posted by Ron_Robinson1

That track is pretty sweet, no helmet needed in the 11s.

Solid car my friend.

Thanks man, yeah there weren't very many guys out there with helmets and even the bikes that were out there were flying but had on jeans and Jordan's. I don't think anyone that was there was expecting my car to do much because it sounds stock as a rock until I get on it and you hear the turbos spool up

Originally Posted by FKNGRSY

No helmet? If I ran sub 11.50 here I would get booted. No cage no sub 11.50.

Car looks great, gonna order my welds here asap.

Yeah I was surprised, idk if they're normally that laid back or what but I'm definitely getting a helmet and I feel like if I start dipping into the 10's they'll probably want me to have a cage too.

Originally Posted by Bad70supreme

Very nice, what mods?

Originally Posted by bhillakaiceberg

Awesome work! What mods you got?

Thanks guys, the car has AGP twins, Alky meth, Welds with skinnys and DR's and a maganflow catback.

Originally Posted by 10aSSee D

Nice runs!! For sure a 10 second car.

Thanks bro, 10's would be awesome

Originally Posted by AITI

I agree. 10 sec car easy with the right stall converter.

You guys are tempting me HARD to throw a converter on it and head back out there. I'm just not sur how strong this stock 6L80 is and I feel like a converter will only add stress and shorten the life of my transmission that I'm already nervous about. But an easy 10 second car is very very tempting

[Cool AirZ28]

Sweet setup. Car runs strong. I agree with everything that has been said. Converter and you ate mid tens all day

[Unreal]

Throw a nice circle D in there and enjoy 10.5s all day long. I dropped .6 seconds in my slow ass wife mustang with just a converter. 60's went from 2.0s to 1.61-1.62.

[WatchThis]

Originally Posted by Cool AirZ28

Sweet setup. Car runs strong. I agree with everything that has been said. Converter and you ate mid tens all day

Thank ya sir, I appreciate it. I wanted to keep it nice and simple and street able. Something I can take the wife to the movies in on Friday night and go run strong at the local 1/4 on Saturday. Mid tens would be frickin sweet and would probably surprise a lot of people around here just by looking at and hearing the car

Originally Posted by Unreal

Throw a nice circle D in there and enjoy 10.5s all day long. I dropped .6 seconds in my slow ass wife mustang with just a converter. 60's went from 2.0s to 1.61-1.62.

I'm not very familiar with converters so it's something I'd definitely have to research a bit. The shop that has done the work on my car thus far mentioned putting a converter in the car but I didn't know that it would be quite THAT effective on the car so I never put much thought to it. Which then again I didn't know the car couldn't hold at 1500 rpm either until this past Friday night. But damn, it's hard to argue with results like that, over a half a second off the ET putting the car in mid tens would be awesome. Then again idk how my local track would feel about a car running 10.5's probably 132ish mph without a cage in it.

Another thing I'm not sure about is how my transmission would feel about it. From what Ive found out, this 6L80 is good to 650rwhp which I'm already not too far from. I feel like adding a 3200ish stall converter would put added stress on the already weak link in my equation and I don't wanna push this car to the point of breaking shit. I also want to keep the car very street able. I think it's just more of the unknown from my perspective and the fact that I don't know much about a converter or what the negative effects would be. If I could slap a Circle D in this thing and run 10.5's all day long without any ill side effects then it'd be a done deal, I just feel like that sounds a little too good to be true. But I don't have much experience here so I'm still learning everything as I go, I'm just trying to learn the easy way rather than the harder, more expensive, breaking shit way