Nice !

 

Elevation really isn't the factor. Fontana is at about 1,500' which isn't huge. If you went by the NHRA correction factors, 1,500' you'd take your ET time 0.9835. The DA conditions (which included elevation) was 1,800' so your 14.06@99.8 would have corrected to a 13.77@101.9mph. For your mods, that's probably a little slow considering. 105mph for a Rev-up with an exhaust and test pipes sounds a bit fast to me, but it was Sacramento where Celica GTS' with intakes have reportedly gone 14.3s@99mph Different tracks, different times. It's frustrating for everyone.

 

Saw that and I would have done the same. There's no point in going WOT if the launch is completely blown. It's not worth it.

 

I think the DA for my 13.147@107 yesterday was around -900 to -1k. The temp was 38 with 55 humidity the B pressure I don't know probably 29 or 30.

 

They don't check a damn thing on mine! Probably because it looks like a rental car.

Also, good job to everyone. If you were running on the east coast, times would've been a little quicker.

 

they look at them when you pull up and when they put on your number, but still it only takes 5min and that's from filling out the tech card.

I used to live in socal and it takes you 1-2 hrs to get through tech depending where you are in line of 400 cars.

 

I've seen some fast numbers up in Sacramento, but it's hit or miss sometimes. On some occasions, there will be a strong head wind or it may rain. I was up there during Thanksgiving, but it got rained out. I have a relative in the Military who was stationed in DC and now lives in NorCal. He says Sacramento is slow compared to Cecil by a few tenths on average. He knows for a fact there is no possible way for him to match his times from Cecil at Sacramento. There is also another track up north which is Infineon Raceway about 80 miles away with less than 100 ft elevation. Nowhere near as fast as Sacramento. Times would be similar to Fontana.

We'll see what I do when I get to Sacramento next month. They have a Test N Tune New years eve and and full drag day the next day. I should get about 5x the runs as I would in Fontana up there.

With my 13.8/13.9@105, I'm hoping for better times this year. In addition to the exhaust and test pipes, I've added the MREV2, spacer, and Osiris along with drag radials. Hopefully those combined mods would get me better times at Sacramento.

Maybe early in the new year, I'll get ART pipes along with a retune. Hopefully that will get me to 13's at Fontana with a mediocre 2.1 60ft.

If I have extra cash, I'll get a Motordyne exhaust, but my cheap knowck-off exhaust is doing very will so far. Other plans would be for headers and a 3.7 diff or 4.11 gears, JWT Flywheel and clutch. I just want to hit 13's at Fontana consistently with the least amount of mods possible on pump gas.

Looking at my last time slip from yesterday, I'm pretty sure I could have gotten into the 13's with a 2.0 60ft. I really don't need more mods for 13's, just a better 60. Next time I'll keep my drag radials on or have better street tires. I was running on Nankang NS-2's. I took the DR's off because they felt very twitchy after 60 mph and the back end wanted to come out after 80mph. When I checked the tire pressure, they were only at 15 -17 PSI after the run. Didn't bring my air compressor. So I was stuck running on Nankangs. The Altima guy ended up using it and was fine with low pressure.

So far I'm pretty impressed with the REVUP at Fontana with such minimal mods. I never expected to run a 14.0 with the stock 3.5 gears. Other than the stock 370Z, I had the least amount of mods out of everyone out of our group.

Once again, big thanks to Mike for helping out yesterday with everything. Made everything smooth.

Silencer, if you ever want to come down to SD again, let me know. The track here is pretty fun.

Mark, try to make it down to too. I'll be taking off to go overseas for a few months at the end of Jan.

 

Thanks for taking the video! I look like such a noob going back and forth at the staging light haha, but had lots of fun.

I'd definitely be down to join you guys in SD, just let me know when.

 

Prop to someone from LA comming down to SD for a performance event!

Next race date is on the 17th. Races start at 6pm to midnight. Be prepared to run your car. You'll get about more runs than you can shake a stick at. Just make sure you have enough gas if you plan to run that much. A 1/4 tank goes fast at this track.

Let me know!

 

its crazy that inspections take that long. even on the full days at Infineon inspections were only maybe 30 mins if you got lined up early when the crazy hot rods are getting inspected too . if you get there late (during warmups) inspections only take a few minutes. they do seem to check over everything though.

 

It was a very weird day as far as the times went. I basically was trapping only 1mph higher than my G before TPs and retune (never ran after TP and retune). I was extremely disappointed in my Z with the trap speed which was only 100mph. I really do not care about the ET as much because that is all skill but trap speed is truly how fast your car is. The track day proved that a Bolt on G35 is as fast as the 370Z. A car that is rated "350hp" and weighing 3300-3400 lb should be faster than that. I do however think my Z is one of those "slow" factory cars unlike my G which was freakishly fast from day one... There has been a auto 370Z (which is i know faster than 6MT) in that same track that has trapped 107 bone stock... I know auto is faster than 6MT but there is no way it traps 7 more MPH.....

I am going to dyno my car very soon at the same place where i have all my G35 dynos and make a comparison in the power...

Other than that it was good meeting you all!

 

To be perfectly honest with you, I wouldn't be so bummed about those trap speeds. As you know, there wasn't another 370Z there to compare track times with. I have driven a local member's bone stock Nismo 370Z at the track and know it definitely traps faster. There is no way my bolt-on G is as fast as a VQ37HR. Like I was telling you guys, I took a loaner 7AT G37 and it did 8.7@82 all day which is way faster than my G. I've seen stock 6MT 370Z's do faster than that bone stock. We had a few 370Z's go at it at our local track and the 6MT's had overall faster times, but the 7AT's were WAY more consistent. I know they all had at least 30 runs at a minimum.

That reminds me. When you get your Z dynoed, why don't we just set up a dyno day!

 

I know what you mean, it just doesn't add up when i compare it to you and mikes trap speeds. I know i shift pretty decent considering I have had lots of runs with my G which was prown to mis-shifts... My 60ft was 2.1x which is pretty good for the Z considering it has over 500lb/inch spirng rate in the back.. We will see how it goes on the dyno. It will be insteresting to compare to other HRs and modded DEs that he has saved on the file including my old G...

 

Nice meeting you too

 

damn that's crazy. Did you run at MIR? At Atco Raceway (NJ) they rarely check your car unless it's running in the 12's or lower.