Jayme

Very excited/nervous about taking my 2011 M6 Coupe to the track friday! The DA should be WELL into the negative as we will have smiliar conditions tomorrow and its -1893 right now. Track is Royal Purple Raceway in Baytown, TX. Similar mods on my 2009 Coupe A6 went 11.98 @ 119.98mph last year in -200 conditions. I went ahead and did the Ranger clutch care procedure (it will be the 4th time in the last year) just for precautionary measures. The car is still on the factory Goodyear Run Flats. I'm a pretty avid racer with 1000's of passes in my previous cars, never raced a C6 M6 with RunFlats on a cold track though, Any last minute tips? I plan on getting the front tires to 40 psi and rear to 25psi hot and icing the intake manifold down between passes. Thanks for reading guys!

Mods are:
Corsa Sport Exhaust
Halltech MF103
Granatelli 0 ohm Wires
VMAX CNC TB
Vararam Power Wedge
SLP 160* Thermostat
Diablo Predator
MGW Shifter.

HOXXOH

Major DA envy here. Hope you do well.

Icing down the IM is futile. Even if you have removed the insulated cover, the manifold itself is still plastic that has nearly no heat transfer properties.

If the attendance is small and you can hot lap, it'll raise the oil temps and tire temps, while eliminating some of the heat soak from not moving.

Jayme

Thanks for your help HOXXOH!

Seadawg

Yea, the only other advice above HOXXOH is to skip the water box and heat them up with a short burnout dry, for a little extra traction. You will have to learn your particular throttle feather technique for that day too, because you are going to spin

Jayme

We shall see!! :-)

615C6

Still getting use to my 05 LS2 M6 on the track with stock tires. I cant seem to get my 60ft down. Even launching at 1.2-1.5k RPM. Have fun and hope you do well! 12.90 was my best with a trap of 117 mph.

Joe_G

Too bad you can't borrow some drag radials, racing on street tires is like ice skating in sneakers...you can do it but it's not much fun.

My only advice is if you get any wheel hop at all, and you very well might with street tires, LET OUT. The #1 cause of broken rears is wheel hop.

This from a guy that has 497 launches like the one in my sig under his belt...only one broken rear, on pass 301. I never get wheel hop...but I never race on street tires either.

starchedup

What's the trick to doing a good burn out like that? You use a line lock to just break the front wheels or you have that special technique to how to clutch/ gas it? Never understood how people do that and not smoke their clutch

Joe_G

I have a line lock, but I can do it all day long without one, you just need to learn the technique. The line lock saves on the rear clutches and is a good cheap mod if you drag race often.

This website is a GREAT resource for all M6 drag racers on this and many other great topics.

www.rangeracceleration.com

starchedup

Thanks