Went out with some of the other 6 speeders today to Lonestar Motorsports Park. We ran the 60-130mph event in pretty ideal weather - 75-78F, low humidity, cloudless sky. My previous recorded best was 8.4 seconds in 90F weather and a slipping clutch. Today the run was with the new AWE stage II Sachs clutch, AWE exhaust, AWE/GIAC ecu "Race" program, BMC airfilter, PES ltw 19" wheels with MPSC tires, 99 octane blended fuel at 2/3 tank. Only driver no passenger, no weight reduction tricks otherwise, and stock VTG turbos, manifolds, intercoolers.

I drove straight to the event and ran 3 runs over 30 minutes and managed a 7.9s pass on my first run (2nd, 3rd, 4th gears thru 60-130), then tried a 1 shift pass (3rd, 4th gears) and managed a 7.7s pass. Very pleased with the results!


Here is the 1 shift run:






Now the 2-shift run







Notice I am not powershifting at all. As a matter of fact,at 300ms my shifts just suck!!

 

Nice job!

 

Thanks Sean, still waaaay behind the sick power you guys are squeezing out of the 996's. Congrats on the 6.69s!!

 

Excellent results! Congrats! Most interesting was the time difference inbetween 3 <> 2 shifting method. I managed to do all tryouts with 2nd, 3rd, 4th gears on my recent Alastaro experiment. I guess the time difference would've been around 0,1-0,2 seconds with one shifting less?

For some reason I didn't see the images? Anybody else having same problem? Browser is waiting for autocarfans.com but nothing visual appears.

And yes, there's still some major gap to the top-of-the-line 996 variants. Autsch!

-ESu

 

Thanks ESu. Yes, your time would be even more impressive if you did a 1 shift run!

 

Yes but your time is REALLY impressive for a new car w/ only a flash and exhaust. You have to swap out the turbos on the 996TT to get to where you are on stock turbos.

 

Nice! And, 300 msec ain't that bad...

 

Jean, you represented well my friend! Don't worry though, I too GRANNY shifted on my 4.72 and 4.75 runs...
Peter

 

Peter that was a lot of fun yesterday, the last time I was on a drag strip I was driving my '55 Chevy! I was definitely the king of granny shifting yesterday

 

Hahhahaha, Doug, it was nice to meet you! I hope you can make it to the next event in November... Your car is an absolute dream of mine and I enjoyed seeing her rip down the track.
Peter