Well, as you may remember from <a href="https://g35driver.com/forums/showflat.php?Cat=&Board=13&Number=17090&page=0&vie w=collapsed&sb=5&part=">this forum</a>, I took my car to the track to get a baseline before I started adding mods. We've been waiting for parts forever it seems and I finally added my Stillen exaust the other day. I went to the track last night to get the numbers with just the exaust on it, and here's those slips. I had a performance gain of about .15 sec in the quarter. That's not bad for just changing out the muff.

2003½ Sedan Black on Black
Nav/Premium/Wood

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BTW, I'm car 135.

2003½ Sedan Black on Black
Nav/Premium/Wood

 

haha I was about to say. DAMN 17 seconds in your G, my moms mini van could do better then that. I like the track name (NO PROBLEM RACEWAY) and how they named the sides (coors lite and coca cola)

Nice time, your car is just stock? Did you prep the car in any way?





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What was car 176?

-Jack

Black obsidian / graphite '03 Coupe premium nav

 

From the looks of your Traps Speeds of the stock run vs. the added exhaust run, you didn't really gain any power. The slips showed that you pulled better 60 foots compared to the first run which results in lower E.T. Unless, your exhaust helped you to get off the line, I don't really see any improvement. I think your improved launching skills helped you out more in your times.

As you add more engine mods to the car, the exhaust will be more significant.

 

Are you blind???? He gained .003. That's at least 2 or 3".

Don't mind me I'm just getting more and more jealous that everyone has a car except me.

Were you bracket racing or just doing free runs?


Calvo

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The 17 second car was a Civic. I love blowing the doors off those damn little cars...

That was Friday Night bracket racing. Every Friday, they have the trophy races and a gamblers race. If you put up $10, you can get in the gamblers race and winner takes the pot.

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Nav/Premium/Wood

 

haha dang that guy can't drive. either he had a big system in it, or just didn't know what he was doing.

my 97 stock dx coupe did 15.98. I even go to run my friends 4 door LX and it hit around 16.7s .

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With an optimal reaction time, high thirteens are just ticks away...

INFINITI
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Hey,

a .587 light is pretty damn good for bracket racing. .500 is perfect. I don't see how 9 hundredths of a second will net him a half a second at the end of the strip.

When somebody breaks the 14 sec. barrier with a stock G sedan, I want to see it. I doubt a 6 speed sedan would do much better than 14.3 on a perfect run, and no doubt the auto sedan would do better in bracket racing just because of the consistency.

It would probably take some pretty extensive mods to break 14 seconds. At least a full exhaust system, CAI, and maybe some ECM reconfiguration.

Of course, Nitrous would get it done quicker, but at what cost in the long run?

Forced induction would also do it easily, but not many people are going to do that while their cars are under warranty. At least not people who are financing their cars.

Just my 2¢

 

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With an optimal reaction time, high thirteens are just ticks away...

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Reaction time has nothing to do with ET.

Dave

 

Dude you crazy of course reaction time has to do something with the ET. Your basically saying that if you have a reaction time of 9.0 than a 1.1 the ET is going to be the same I highly doubt that!!!!

 

Reaction time has nothing to do with your ET. I sit at the line in my Talon to get a perfect launch - sometimes for over 3 or 4 seconds. My ET's are always the same as when I cut a .5XX light.

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'02 Maxima Automagic 14.31@97.11
'92 Talon TSI AWD 13.13@102.6

 

otakg35,

You've obviously have never done any real drag racing. The ET clock starts when you trip the light at the starting line. If you wait 5 seconds, then launch, your reaction time will be 5 seconds and you'll then start ET clock (that's how it knows what your reaction time is). I guess you've never seen a non-bracket drag race where the higher ET WINs the race -- this is known as TREEing the opponent. Whoever crosses the finish line first is the winner (Red-lighting excepted, of course). ET and mph don't actually affect the outcome of the race (unless you're bracket racing and you break your dial-in, but that's another story).


djrezin8 ,

I also agree that the .15 second difference in time slip isn't the best indicator of the modifications improving actual performance. I think you'd need several passes under similar track/temperature conditions to make that claim. Now, if you mph had gone up several mph, that would be a better indicator. Higher mph usually means higher horsepower. The differences on your timeslip are very small. I'm not saying that the car didn't pick up any horsepower with the mods, however, 1 timeslip before and 1 timeslip after with differences that slight could be considered a statistical anomoly.

 

look at the time slips above again, they are both from the same night with the new exhaust. i assume before the exhaust was added the car was running .15 higher like a 14.65 or 14.70