Track tips? A6
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Safety Car
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Track tips? A6
What would be some tips for the drag strip as far as:
Tire PSI:
Brake stall or not:
Burnout yes or no or small one to clean them off:
TC full on, part on, or all off:
Leave in D or S:
Thanks.
oh and the mods are Intake, catback, tune, re-11's, and 3.42s
Tire PSI:
Brake stall or not:
Burnout yes or no or small one to clean them off:
TC full on, part on, or all off:
Leave in D or S:
Thanks.
oh and the mods are Intake, catback, tune, re-11's, and 3.42s
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A number of us have posted plenty of tips for drag racing with the A6, please do a search.
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If you are on stock tires, go around the water box. Make sure you are straight when you go to the line. You might want to turn everything off TCC etc.....If you can, go to the track without floor mats, wiper washer fluid etc..
Launch off idle (In S)..
I ran an 11.7@121 with an intake and a tune (in good air), by following these tips. - LS3
Good Luck
Launch off idle (In S)..
I ran an 11.7@121 with an intake and a tune (in good air), by following these tips. - LS3
Good Luck
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If you are on stock tires, go around the water box. Make sure you are straight when you go to the line. You might want to turn everything off TCC etc.....If you can, go to the track without floor mats, wiper washer fluid etc..
Launch off idle (In S)..
I ran an 11.7@121 with an intake and a tune (in good air), by following these tips. - LS3
Good Luck
Launch off idle (In S)..
I ran an 11.7@121 with an intake and a tune (in good air), by following these tips. - LS3
Good Luck
any tips on tire psi?
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There are quite a few bone stock cars running 12's and a few in the 11's, so your 13.0 doesn't say much regarding power or conditions.
Without any more info, tips on tire pressure would be somewhere between 20 and 40 psi.
BTW, there are at least 2 cars in the 10's with those "junk 2.56 gears".
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Oh good catch. Its coupe ls2 a6 with blackwing intake, corsa catback, 3.42s, RE-11s, and dyno tuned at TPS made 355/355 before the tune it was 345whp if I remember correctly. Runs were done at infineon in Nov about 1.5yrs ago on the runflats at stock tire psi in S.
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Oh good catch. Its coupe ls2 a6 with blackwing intake, corsa catback, 3.42s, RE-11s, and dyno tuned at TPS made 355/355 before the tune it was 345whp if I remember correctly. Runs were done at infineon in Nov about 1.5yrs ago on the runflats at stock tire psi in S.
I'll also have a second HP Tuners with me so we can log some of your passes if you'd like.
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I was going to go in like 2weeks to infineon since its closer and usually have better prep. But if you come id be open to all opinions and scanning the runs on hptuners. The tune has been adjusted since the gear swap. I'm hoping for 12.6 which should be doable with the added gears, dyno tune, and tires
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Melting Slicks
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I was going to go in like 2weeks to infineon since its closer and usually have better prep. But if you come id be open to all opinions and scanning the runs on hptuners. The tune has been adjusted since the gear swap. I'm hoping for 12.6 which should be doable with the added gears, dyno tune, and tires
I got my buddy running 11.7 in his 2009 and his only mods were drag radials, headers and 1.8 Yella Terra rockers and his converter was stock along with his gears (2.56) so I wouldn't be surprised if I could get you into the 11's.
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Just turn off Traction Control (1 push on the button) and you retain the safety help of Active Handling. AH won't intervene unless you start geting tail happy.
If you do suddenly lose traction because of a bad section on the track, get off the power immediately. I've seen guys try to save a run that was already ruined, and it got very expensive.
Enjoy!
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I also prefer running at Infineon because of the track prep but I've got two very important bracket races coming up this weekend and since I'm going to be testing out a Lingenfelter Launch Control, I'm gonna run at Sacramento since you can keep making passes even after you lose. That's the other reason you might want to drive out to Sacramento as it effectively becomes a low cost Test & Tune session since you usually only get 2-3 passes before the eliminations start at Infineon.
I got my buddy running 11.7 in his 2009 and his only mods were drag radials, headers and 1.8 Yella Terra rockers and his converter was stock along with his gears (2.56) so I wouldn't be surprised if I could get you into the 11's.
I got my buddy running 11.7 in his 2009 and his only mods were drag radials, headers and 1.8 Yella Terra rockers and his converter was stock along with his gears (2.56) so I wouldn't be surprised if I could get you into the 11's.
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Turning off AH normally won't help your times, but makes it easier to smack the wall if you hit a patch of oil on the track.
Just turn off Traction Control (1 push on the button) and you retain the safety help of Active Handling. AH won't intervene unless you start geting tail happy.
If you do suddenly lose traction because of a bad section on the track, get off the power immediately. I've seen guys try to save a run that was already ruined, and it got very expensive.
Enjoy!
Just turn off Traction Control (1 push on the button) and you retain the safety help of Active Handling. AH won't intervene unless you start geting tail happy.
If you do suddenly lose traction because of a bad section on the track, get off the power immediately. I've seen guys try to save a run that was already ruined, and it got very expensive.
Enjoy!
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You really need to take Subfloor up on his offer to help you. He's one of the best and has great advice too. You'll learn more in one session with him, than in a year by yourself.
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If you can swing by Brentwood the weekend before you go I've got a set of well worn but useable BFG 18" drag radials I can lend you for the night. They don't have a ton of tread left but they'll definitely hook better than your street tires not to mention being safer too. If you're interested, what I'd recommend is picking them up from me but not mounting them until we get to the track as I have a jack and everything else you'll need to do it there.
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I've only ever run my car once at the track with street tires so I'm not an authority on that but I believe taking them down to 25psi will help because anything less and you'll get a warning message on the DIC. As others have stated you shouldn't do a burnout either as that'll only decrease your traction.
If you can swing by Brentwood the weekend before you go I've got a set of well worn but useable BFG 18" drag radials I can lend you for the night. They don't have a ton of tread left but they'll definitely hook better than your street tires not to mention being safer too. If you're interested, what I'd recommend is picking them up from me but not mounting them until we get to the track as I have a jack and everything else you'll need to do it there.
If you can swing by Brentwood the weekend before you go I've got a set of well worn but useable BFG 18" drag radials I can lend you for the night. They don't have a ton of tread left but they'll definitely hook better than your street tires not to mention being safer too. If you're interested, what I'd recommend is picking them up from me but not mounting them until we get to the track as I have a jack and everything else you'll need to do it there.
It had a wideband all hooked up and used when TPS Motorsports dyno tuned it
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