Considering it was my first time down the track in a stick car I was pretty happy. The one thing you have to get used to is when your staging, the car sometimes rolls back and turns off a pair of the bulbs, thus throwing off your concentration a bit. I say this because my reaction time wasn't as good as it used to be, I cut a .117 for the best of day where a .000 is perfect and I even red lighted one time too, -.010. The temp was about 65 once I got there, but by the end of the day, it dropped some, the clouds came in along with some wind. My 60 times weren't that good IMO, anywhere from 2.1's to 2.4's when I dumped the clutch at 3,500 rpm. I got my best passes when I dumped it at 2,000 rpm and the 60's showed in the 2.1's. My only mod is the Magnaflow muffler, so I can't complain, although I thought the mph would be a bit better. In this car its all about the gearing. I had a mid 90's Mustang GT next to me and was runnin' 14.3-14.4's all day, but only trapped 95 or so where I was runnin' 14.8-15.1's most of the time. For the record, I ran 14.8 twice, 14.9 twice and a couple runs 15.0-15.1 and the couple times it was higher was because I launched it too hard and another time when I had a passenger in the car with me. My car is a lease so I'm not going to put any more money into for mods, but if I were keeping it, I'd get the Absolute chip, K&N's or custom intake and for sure get true duals to get it down into the mid 14's.

 

That sounds like it was fun! Where'd you go? Milan?
We raced our new Top Sportsman car last weekend at IRP. First race for the new GTO. http://www.dragracecentral.com/DRCPh...r=100#indextop O.K., it's not the Crossfire, but mines an autostick roadster and I don't think it would be very fast in comparison. We runner-upped! http://www.dragracecentral.com/DRCSt...r=100#indextop Qualified with a 7.11 at 193.

 

DARN! Now that's fast. I've never seen that style "mailbox" sticking out of the hood. As far as the track goes, I went to Ubly as I really like it there. Keep us posted on the season and I'm surprised you don't have a matching "street" car to match the racer!

 

Nice run, it is cool to see more people running the XF at the track now. I will have a time this time next week. I would be happy with a high 14.

 

Aeroblue,
OK, we've been to Ubly, but not with the really fast cars. We took the daughter there with her street Grand Prix a few years ago to let her get the hang of staging. We were there in the Mid '70's too with a '69 GTO (guess that's telling our age). I remember we borrowed some slicks from someone at the track and ended up driving home to Royal Oak at the time with them on, and it rained!! Man was THAT fun!

 

MI Roadster... you could run a half mile and still beat a Crossfire in the 1/4.

Fastest car I have seen in person is a Buick GN run 8.20 - it had a few mods.

 

Mine is an auto. I ran five times one night all 15.1X.
I really want to get into the 14's.

 

What is and where do you get Absolute chip?
How did you debadge?
I have 2005 AeroBlue Crossfire Coupe with K&N air filters, Borla Muffler and Startech manual shifter.