Its been a while since I posted in here. I went to one of the first test and tunes of the year at Cecil County, MD today with some friends. It was perfect weather out today, and surprisingly there were maybe only about 30 cars or so that ran all day. And for the most part, literally no wait in the lanes. Needless to say, I wanted to take advantage of it and ended up making 31 passes today (no, that is not a typo).

First off, background on the car at the track. I bought the car in April 2008 and ran the car 2 weeks after purchase and went 14.05 @ 102.3mph on a 2.17 60ft 100% bone stock, to the tires. Some people were impressed with that, as was I after seeing what a lot of people run. but I definitely wanted to get a 13 out of it in stock form, or at least with as little mods as possible. Also my own rules with the car are no stripping of interior etc. Only remove the spare and run on street tires at normal full pressure.

Here is the original thread with my stock times from 2008:
https://g35driver.com/forums/drag/21...s-tonight.html

I have since installed a Popcharger/Ztube and an HR y-pipe. No plenum, spacer or anything else. I also currently have 17" base 350Z wheels with Blizzaks on all four corners. Car put down 250whp/223wtq in current form.

First pass of the day after not running it at Cecil for 2 years was a 14.13 @ 101.5, so that wasn't too far off my personal best stock time to start the day. After many frustrating ups and downs in times throughout the day, I finally cracked off three 13 sec passes in my last three passes of the day. I was cutting it REALLY close with when they were going to shut down the staging lanes at 4pm, but I got one and then wanted to at least get one or two more to back it up.

FINAL RESULTS (the 13s):
13.85 @ 102.8mph - 2.16 60ft
13.95 @ 102.7mph - 2.21 60ft
13.79 @ 103.5mph - 2.15 60ft





This is the car as it ran at the track with 17's and Blizzaks all around lol.

 

Great times!

I heard Cecil is a very "fast" track. What were the DA's?

 

DA for the last run looks to be -40.

 

Nice!

Is this you?

 

Nope, I don't even know what track that is at. This is my car when it was bone stock though...

 

What was car #303? Another G or Z?

 

Nope, I was the only G/Z there. That was an STi.

 

sweet, im headed to capitol next weekend. cant wait

 

Cecil is fast, but probably not as much so as Sac Speedway from what I have seen.

 

I think I will go to cecil next weekend. I got my best times there when I hot lapped.

The best I got today at crapitol was 13.84@101.

I will bring my DRs for sure this time didn't feel like changing them out today.

Nice times do you plan on going again anytime soon? I ran my pb of 13.2 at cecil.

 

AJ pulled a 13.3 today.......that 15mph headwind really seemed to be hurting everyone......along with it getting near 60 today. Best I have ever pulled at Crapital was a 13.17.

 

When I had my Z28, I discovered that LS1's LOVED to be hotlapped at the track and on the dyno. Then after making 31 passes in the G yesterday, I have to say the same thing about the VQ35. My last 6 passes were at 3:33pm,3:36pm, 3:41pm, 3:45pm, 3:50pm, 3:53pm... and it only got faster as it went. Those last 3 were the 13 sec passes I scanned and posted up lol.

I might run again once I buy some new summer tires so I can put the 19's back on and get some more passes in before the end of April while its still somewhat cool out. Either way, I'll probably be down a few times in the spring and summer to hang out and watch friends running.

 

Damn, must have been empty.....even capital wasn't as crowded as I was expecting.

Derek, what was your best 60' today? No one was hooking up at all.

 

There were probably 30 or so cars running, but never more than maybe 8-10 cars in the staging lanes at any given time. And for the most part, even less than that. At the end of the day, me and some dude in a black STi were the only ones still running and just kept rolling up together right to the starting line without any waiting.

 

That's how I like it. No waiting. That's the reason I go to Sacramento Raceway when I visit family. It's about a 500 mile trip.

Test N Tune's are better than regular grudge nights for me.