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I would keep the fuel above 1/4. Somewhere around 3/8 to below a half would be safe. I made a few runs just at the 1/4 mark and had a cel for low fuel pressure. Dealer said either fuel pump, regulator or low fuel level. I have made numerous runs since then with more fuel and no cel recurrence. Are you going to Kingdon on Sunday?
I would keep the fuel above 1/4. Somewhere around 3/8 to below a half would be safe. I made a few runs just at the 1/4 mark and had a cel for low fuel pressure. Dealer said either fuel pump, regulator or low fuel level. I have made numerous runs since then with more fuel and no cel recurrence. Are you going to Kingdon on Sunday?
If he and you are both going to the same track Sunday I'm sure you will have him putting down some numbers!
Last edited by C7/Z06 Man; 09-07-2017 at 06:53 PM.
If he and you are both going to the same track Sunday I'm sure you will have him putting down some numbers!
Thanks . The annual Vette Magic race which has been run in Sacramento for 15 years moved this year to Kingdon raceway (actually an airstrip). Just pulled the motor of my bracket car last night for a freshenup. Haven't decided whether or not to bring the Z on Sunday. How is your beast doing?
I would keep the fuel above 1/4. Somewhere around 3/8 to below a half would be safe. I made a few runs just at the 1/4 mark and had a cel for low fuel pressure. Dealer said either fuel pump, regulator or low fuel level. I have made numerous runs since then with more fuel and no cel recurrence. Are you going to Kingdon on Sunday?
Thank you for the heads up Willie. I'll go get more fuel later tonight since I get off work tomorrow at 5pm and heading there afterwards. I'll be at the Test N Tune at Sacramento Raceway tomorrow and come and watch the kingdon event on Sunday. Looking at some pictures of the kingdon drag strip it doesn't look too safe or even.
Just getting back into bracket racing after 2 years.
Originally Posted by 383vett
Thanks . The annual Vette Magic race which has been run in Sacramento for 15 years moved this year to Kingdon raceway (actually an airstrip). Just pulled the motor of my bracket car last night for a freshenup. Haven't decided whether or not to bring the Z on Sunday. How is your beast doing?
Bring the Z, Just for the hell of it. I would.
Don't know if you seen my 'BMS' bracket racing post a few days back where I went to my local track running the "BMS" air filter that now only has 'one' class i.e. foot brake, electronics, dragsters, and everything in between.
I was the only real street car entered. First round I cut a perfect .000 light (first with this car/luck as you know) and put an electronic car away, then got the bye run, then in the third round raced the same car again (bought back) that I put out in the first round; well I cut a better light then him by .05 so the race should of been mine "BUT" due to the car's electronics I ran 2 tenths slower which even if I did cut a perfect light would not of helped. Went to the tower, collected some money and went home "only" a little poorer.
Beast Report: The Z06 most likely has not lost a step, will see when it gets colder. Hell there maybe a little something lower than a 10.4 in there running the stock tune and a less restrictive air intake, either the aftermarket BMS filter or my trusty AFE CAI.
Last edited by C7/Z06 Man; 09-14-2017 at 03:46 PM.
Would love to hear your burnout procedure and launch procedure. Anything would help since it's going to be my first time out with this car.
**i am copying this from a previous post several months ago, I hope this helps you, as well as others**
Some of this may be more detail than needed, but maybe it will help someone else too:
(These instructions are based on my experience, some may disagree on some of the details)
1. Make sure your car is fully cooled down, get there an hour early and open your hood and let it cool. Make sure your coolant is 150 +/- before starting your burnout and you should be good.
2. Use 32 oz of torco accelerator or boostane with each 10g of 91/93 unleaded, the car needs higher octane to avoid Knock Retard. You can also mix 50/50 unleaded race gas with 93 unleaded to accomplish the same thing. Try to time it so that your car is around 7/16 or 3/8 of a tank when you arrive to the track.
3. Turn off your Traction Control by hitting the button in the middle of the mode selector on your console, the light on the dash should indiate T/C off. DO NOT turn any other nannies off, especially stabilitrac, this helps your car to keep you from kissing the wall, should one of your tires lose traction part way down the track.
4. Simple burnout procedure:
Pull your shifter wall the way back toward the rear bumper to put the car into manual mode for the burnout, hold the brake moderately and begin your burnout after you have been positioned by the track guy. Run the RPM's up to 5000-5500 and hold it there for 4-5 seconds, then hit your "+ paddle" to shift to 2nd and bring the rpms back up to 5000-5500 rpms for another 4-5 seconds, then let off the gas and allow your car to begin rolling forward until the rear tires chirp. After your burnout put your car back into drive, you will be allowing the car to do the shifting during the actual 1/4 mile pass.
5. If you have drag radials and traction is not a problem, i would run in Track mode. If traction is an issue, i would run it in tour mode.
Again, make sure the t/c is still off, and all other nannies are NOT turned off. I WOULD NOT recommend that you use launch control, this will slow you down.
6. stage the car by illuminating both yellow staging lights and wait for the other car to stage as well.
7. Launch the car from IDLE, DO NOT do a brake stand/power brake, or whatever you call it. Hold the brake down firmly and place your car on the accelerator but do not push down..
8. look directly at the 3rd yellow (the last light before the green), as soon as you see it begin to flash, stomp the accelerator to the floor and let off the brake at the exact same time.
9. Hold on and steer straight, if the car begins to break loose or goes sideways, immediately get out of the accelerator and steer to correct and get straight again.
Assuming you have an A8, you should easily attain your 10 second timeslip.
Out of about 55 passes that I have made in my car so far, I only have 2 that were slower than a 10 second slip, the first two passes, where I "made mistakes" on both runs. LOL
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Originally Posted by ACS55
**i am copying this from a previous post several months ago, I hope this helps you, as well as others**
Some of this may be more detail than needed, but maybe it will help someone else too:
(These instructions are based on my experience, some may disagree on some of the details)
1. Make sure your car is fully cooled down, get there an hour early and open your hood and let it cool. Make sure your coolant is 150 +/- before starting your burnout and you should be good.
2. Use 32 oz of torco accelerator or boostane with each 10g of 91/93 unleaded, the car needs higher octane to avoid Knock Retard. You can also mix 50/50 unleaded race gas with 93 unleaded to accomplish the same thing. Try to time it so that your car is around 7/16 or 3/8 of a tank when you arrive to the track.
3. Turn off your Traction Control by hitting the button in the middle of the mode selector on your console, the light on the dash should indiate T/C off. DO NOT turn any other nannies off, especially stabilitrac, this helps your car to keep you from kissing the wall, should one of your tires lose traction part way down the track.
4. Simple burnout procedure:
Pull your shifter wall the way back toward the rear bumper to put the car into manual mode for the burnout, hold the brake moderately and begin your burnout after you have been positioned by the track guy. Run the RPM's up to 5000-5500 and hold it there for 4-5 seconds, then hit your "+ paddle" to shift to 2nd and bring the rpms back up to 5000-5500 rpms for another 4-5 seconds, then let off the gas and allow your car to begin rolling forward until the rear tires chirp. After your burnout put your car back into drive, you will be allowing the car to do the shifting during the actual 1/4 mile pass.
5. If you have drag radials and traction is not a problem, i would run in Track mode. If traction is an issue, i would run it in tour mode.
Again, make sure the t/c is still off, and all other nannies are NOT turned off. I WOULD NOT recommend that you use launch control, this will slow you down.
6. stage the car by illuminating both yellow staging lights and wait for the other car to stage as well.
7. Launch the car from IDLE, DO NOT do a brake stand/power brake, or whatever you call it. Hold the brake down firmly and place your car on the accelerator but do not push down..
8. look directly at the 3rd yellow (the last light before the green), as soon as you see it begin to flash, stomp the accelerator to the floor and let off the brake at the exact same time.
9. Hold on and steer straight, if the car begins to break loose or goes sideways, immediately get out of the accelerator and steer to correct and get straight again.
Assuming you have an A8, you should easily attain your 10 second timeslip.
Out of about 55 passes that I have made in my car so far, I only have 2 that were slower than a 10 second slip, the first two passes, where I "made mistakes" on both runs. LOL
Good luck!!
At the risk of starting a heated debate, I disagree with about half of the listed steps and here's why:
1. Letting it cool down like that is only gonna be helpful with the very first pass and since the car will run quicker as the temperature outside drops towards the end of Test & Tune (in the case of Sacramento that's 10:00 PM), I consider this a needless step.
2. If the car doesn't get any KR then adding an octane booster really isn't going to help much so I wouldn't go overboard with this.
3. While it's fine to make the pass with just the TC turned off, doing a burnout this way is another story (more on this below).
4. I've found several different things regarding the burnout process. The first is that with my car I've only been able to do a proper burnout by pressing and holding the center button until you see two lights appear on the dash indicating the traction control and active handling have been turned off. If you try doing a burnout with just the traction control off, if the car gets even a little sideways in the burnout box the engine cuts power. Doing a burnout for 8-10 seconds is absolutely not needed because these cars simply don't launch that hard. Heck, even in my 2007 race car that cuts 1.3 60ft times I usually only do one for 6-7 seconds. I let my father who was visiting from Canada last week race my Z06 and despite only doing a very small burnout the car hooked just fine. You also will be fine just leaving it in Drive too during the burnout.
5. I've found there's absolutely no difference when running the car in Tour, Sport or Track mode.
7. I've tried launching it several different ways and getting on the converter does help as I run the fastest ET, best 60ft and best reaction times leaving at around 1800RPM.
What are the sizes of the tires and wheels? how much did they cost?
18x10.5 for the 2 rear RACE STAR wheels. I picked these up from TonySS who is a vendor on here. I picked these up when RACE STAR was having their sale.
315/30/18 Hoosier drag radial DR2 - copy and paste and google it. I don't remember the price.
09-07-2017, 02:55 PM
Heading to the drag strip tomorrow, what to expect?
Good Luck! Keep us posted.
Bring the Z, Just for the hell of it. I would. 
so the race should of been mine "BUT" due to the car's electronics I ran 2 tenths slower 
which even if I did cut a perfect light would not of helped. Went to the tower, collected some money and went home "only" a little poorer. 
