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Originally Posted by CAMS290
Were you stalling it and then dropping into 1st for the take off ????
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The GT actually did:
1.9 launching in Perf mode (14.0 ET/104 mph),
2.0-2.1 in manual mode (14.2 ET/105 mph),
2.1 in regular D mode(14.2 ET/103 mph)
Best 60 ft's were achieved by launching from idle and easing into the accelrator... When slamming the foot down or stalling the car up it would wheelspin for much of the first 300 ft
When driving a modified F6:
Wheelspinning 2.4 in Perf with a 14.0 ET (107.2 mph),
Wheelspinning 2.3 in manual mode with a 13.7 ET (106.7 mph)
Wheelspinning 2.4 in regular D with a lazy 14.7 ET (107.8 mph)
Car was launched from both idle and stalled up to 2200 in all three modes with no difference in sixty foot times.
Maurice is getting 2.0 sixty's launching from 2300 with the stall in 2 then shift back to 1 launch technique (Something a lot of VL Turbo drivers swear by). The result is 12.9 ET's and a whopping 109 mph. What this shows is that the car is actually having to make huge power in the second half of the track, meaning that the first half of the track is an area that has improvement in it. A 2.0 sixty foot is not that special from these cars, realistically they should be capable of easy 1.9's maybe even 1.8's given the amount of torque, weight carried, tyre diameter and gearing. This is not even factoring in the track temp, humidity, relative altitude etc.
If Maurice's car actually got to sixty foot as hard as it is capable of then 12.7's at less mph should be possible.
Next time you are at a competition meet and get the chance to watch Top Alcohol, stand at half track and watch how the Funny Cars behave compared to the dragsters. The funny car carries more weight and will generally be behind the dragster at half track, but from there the funny car will pull away will generally run up to 10 mph more than the dragster on the same ET. Why is this so? Because the dragster gets out the hole quicker than the funny car and doesn't need big power at the other end of the track to run the same ET.