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Old Aug 25, 2007 | 09:06 PM
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well i have a stock 96 vert auto what would i have to do to get it in the high to mid 12s
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Old Aug 25, 2007 | 09:12 PM
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Put it on a trailer and tow it behind a 10 second car!

Just kidding....the car should already be running high 12's or low 13's in good air as a stocker (with the A/C turned off). Go with easy stuff first like a free-er flowing air filter, less restrictive exaust system and adjustable fuel pressure regulator (AFPR). Or you could just bolt on a 50 shot of nitro and call it a day.

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3.54 gears/2800 vigilante stall,drag radials and freemods,exhaust.

???? good driver too.
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Gears (3.73s) and a 2800 stall converter will do the job.

Or you could let a real driver do it for you
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Old Aug 25, 2007 | 09:47 PM
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Edge 3000 Stall Converter..... 3.54 Gears..... A little Juice would really get the party going....
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Gears (3.73s) and a 2800 stall converter will do the job.


That is all I had and ran mid 12's
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For me, it took gears (3.33 now), 2600 stall torque convertor, LT headers, and a HotCam kit.
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VETTE 8189...DON'T LISTEN TO THE SPRAY GUYS!

THEY MAY AS WELL BE RICERS!

Do your best na.....you and your car. Nothing else matters!
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Spray isn't real.

It's wannabe only.
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spray=witchcraft.
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Originally Posted by Carpenter
VETTE 8189...DON'T LISTEN TO THE SPRAY GUYS!

THEY MAY AS WELL BE RICERS!

Do your best na.....you and your car. Nothing else matters!
This is obviously sarcasm, correct?
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Originally Posted by Carpenter
Spray isn't real.

It's wannabe only.
Also facitiousness, I hope. It's so hard to tell on the Net...
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Originally Posted by engle1147
Put it on a trailer and tow it behind a 10 second car!

Just kidding....the car should already be running high 12's or low 13's in good air as a stocker (with the A/C turned off). Go with easy stuff first like a free-er flowing air filter, less restrictive exaust system and adjustable fuel pressure regulator (AFPR). Or you could just bolt on a 50 shot of nitro and call it a day.

Explain to us all why exactly you would want an AFPR on a car with a flashable PCM that has an injector constant that can be adjusted to suit injector size? Turning up the fuel pressure DOES NOT make the car more powerful and certainly wont make it move quicker. Waste of money is what it is, he only wants to get into 12s, adjusting fuel pressure is totally unrequired and will just complicate the tuning.
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Originally Posted by SHINOBI-X
3.54 gears/2800 vigilante stall,drag radials and freemods,exhaust.

???? good driver too.



With these mods and maybe a good tune you should be running in the 12's not matter what the weather unless the DA is sky high.
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Originally Posted by Carpenter
spray=witchcraft.
Tell us how you really feel about nitrous
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Old Aug 26, 2007 | 01:18 PM
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Ok, ok.

Spray is fine for some I suppose.........but my personal challenge is to get hp the old school way.

To each his own.

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I don't know what to tell you...I have a 93 with long tubes, 3:73 gears, 3200 stall converter, a Dana 44 and drag radials...I have not been able to get this car under 13.18 yet and that was in cold weather up in Richmond, Va. last Feb...this year I will surpass 1000 runs at the drag strip spread over the last 5 years so I think the driver is OK...

Before I upped the converter stall from 2400 my best was 13.41...maybe I just have one of them turds..lol
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I don't know what to tell you...I have a 93 with long tubes, 3:73 gears, 3200 stall converter, a Dana 44 and drag radials...I have not been able to get this car under 13.18 yet and that was in cold weather up in Richmond, Va. last Feb...this year I will surpass 1000 runs at the drag strip spread over the last 5 years so I think the driver is OK...

Before I upped the converter stall from 2400 my best was 13.41...maybe I just have one of them turds..lol
Did you remove your air filter element and top housing?
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Ok, ok.

Spray is fine for some I suppose.........but my personal challenge is to get hp the old school way.

To each his own.

Uh, nitrous has been around awhile... The best part is that you can build a stout N/A motor and then spray it! I can't believe that you were even remotely serious with those posts...
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