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Old Mar 29, 2006 | 11:18 PM
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How do I calculate my potential ET from my MPH?
First time at the track with this car My best was 13.423 @ 106.26. 60 ft was a shameful 2.206. I had some trouble hooking up my Falkens.
I was just wondering what the potential would be with a set of drag radials that I could actually hook up?
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Roy
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Old Mar 30, 2006 | 02:23 AM
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personal averages are around 2.0 on good street tires ( g-force, pirelli rossos) but im guessing people with drag radials are much better at 1.7 ish? basically just minus the difference and you'll get a general idea. if youre having traction issues dr's may increase your mph but usually they decrease slightly.. if anything due to taller size etc.
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Old Mar 30, 2006 | 02:39 AM
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You will break into the 12s if you get that 60' under 2 seconds.
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Old Mar 30, 2006 | 10:35 AM
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go here:
http://performancetrends.com/download.htm#dra

This is pretty awesome. You can input your track data, and HP/torque curves will be generated for your car. You can then try any and all combinations of clutch, tires, shift points watever with predicted performace. Nice tool.

Drag Racing Analyzer v3.2 (Windows 95/98/Me/XP/2000/NT)
Computer software to predict your car's (or most any vehicle's) 1/4 mile, 1/8 mile and even top speed (Bonneville) performance. Some of its many features include numerous built in examples of transmission/body styles/converters/complete vehicles, ability to add your own examples, graphs, history log of last 25 runs you've made, "Match Vehicle Performance" option where you enter your vehicle's 60 ft time, MPH, stall RPM, finish RPM and Gear # and the program adjusts critical specs to match your performance separate Dial In and Throttle Stop prediction screens, and much more
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