Nice to meet you this weekend Sam. Hope you made it home OK and hope to see you next year. And Hopefully my car will be ready.
















And mine, sitting in the car show

 

You getting any better at this Sam? Is every course set-up different or do they follow a certain pattern? Gotta ask... Will you be posting any youtube video clips of this parking lot rodeo for us begineers to see? I enjoy watching your clips. By the way PLATES

 

Sam, lets see the videos.

 

What did you run in the quarter?

 

Either that cone is very good at standing on edge or someone is a cone killer.

San

 

Hi Steve,

It was a pleasure meeting you too! Man, you car looks FANTASTIC! I can't wait to see that beast get a trophy next year, and hopefully we'll get to chat a little more too then!
I made it back home in 9hrs 20 minutes Had an absolute blast in the PA mountains and didn't get pulled over like I did on the way there

I'll post some videos of the runs later on...
Quick summary for the rest of the forum: I put a C6 Z06 rear swaybar on the car and dialled in the alignment a lot more agressively (-1.4 camber up front, -1 camber rear, max front caster, .1 toe front 0 toe rear; appearently before the car was way off alignment and only had about .6 degrees of camber). It was reasonably warm and the G meter registered 1.24 lateral Gs on both directions at the autocross course. The handling was also the most neutral of anything I have ever driven; I can't get over how good the car feels now at the limit! I don't know how my times ended up comparing with the rest of the cars in my class (times aren't posted yet) but I had a passenger for every run and was really just showboating and having a good time; I purposely power slid that corner on every run, and I only hit the cone on my first run

For the drag strip, I installed Lingenfelter Launch Control, but having never dragged the car before, I had no idea where to set it. The first 2 runs blew the tires off at 2500RPM, on the 3rd one I dropped it down to 2300RPM and it kind of hooked a little better (1.9 60'). I posted the fastest time in my class, but the car was pretty slow. On the 4rth run I found out why; the clutch was not holding, and it refused to engage completely, slipping every gear on that run. That also happened to be the final run deciding who would win A class drags. I lost to a Subaru STI running a 12.3
So its back to the drawing board on the drags, but I think I'm pretty close to where I want the car to be handling wise. All in all it was very much worth the 1500 mile round trip

 

sam that sounds like alot of fun. Cant wait to see your video

 

sorry to hear about the clutch, that sucks.. hopefully cartek can help you out with it.. i hear they make a pretty stellar clutch (might be a better option)..

so you lost to a 12.3 second subbie.. does that mean you didn't run 11s?

 

I ran in the high 11s before it gave up and did a 13.4 against the Subaru on the final elimination run.

 

what did you trap?

 

Against the Subie? 114 I think?
On my other runs it was trapping 123 - 124 MPH

 

Hey Sam was that Subaru STi that you raced silver with black wheels?

 

Yup... You know him?
He did decent... 12.33 @ 115.6 was his last run against me.

Kind of funny that I used to have an STI before my Corvette, and ended up losing to an STI.
My old Subie:

 

I think he had you confused with the other black C6 there that was running the STS turbo kit. Was that guy in A too?

 

No, that guy ran "A" last year but this year he had a set of Mickey T drag slicks and was running in Top Gun because of that.

 

Man Pwrlabs, what's the deal with the slipping clutch? Didn't I read you got one of the new Monster clutches somewhere?

My stock clutch was slipping this past winter at the track. I still managed a 11.5 at 129+. Now I've got a Spec 3+ and it's holding great, but the weather is getting pretty hot and humid here in southeast Texas. I ran 11.4 at 129+ with horrible air and a heat soaked supercharger. I'm waiting until next late fall or winter to run at the track again, I'm shooting for some low 11's (or better) and mid 130's then.

 

Glad to see your enjoying that ride

 

Monster clutch owes you an explanation.. that BS.. how can that clutch slip with 600hp..

im trying to figure out what clutch to put in mine ..

what was the DA when you ran 124.. seems a little low..

 

The clutch slipped some in every run. The trap was low because the car was not putting power to the ground.

 

Sorry on the clutch. you spent some downtime on that one?

With all the hype on the MOnster, wonder whats up with that?