Today I met up with Nick (SLK55), John (NA Crossfire), and Steve (SLK32) for some 1/4 mile fun.

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With a single NW, 181, Eurocharged tune, and SL55 fuel pump I ran five 12.0's. I've never ran so consintently in the decade I've been drag racing, so I was very surprised to say the least. Literally five runs were within .069 of each other. My reaction times weren't too shabby either.

RT----------60'----------330'----------1/8----------MPH-------1/4----------MPH

0.184------1.825------5.073--------7.763-------91.71------12.002------114.86
-0.051------1.801------5.071--------7.776-------91.55------12.019------114.59
0.093------1.814------5.084--------7.784-------91.46------12.033------114.60
0.149------1.833------5.106--------7.802-------92.17------12.058------116.82
0.144------1.860------5.105--------7.809-------91.37------12.071------114.21

I'm still running high 10's low 11's A/F even after a revision. Hopefully I can get a retune before next weekend.

By the way, the temps were in the 60's and I suspect the DA was around 1,200'. I'll check later and update the thread.


Steve had a personal best of 12.15. John was running consistent 14.8/9's in his NA Crossfire as a baseline for the turbo build. Nick surprised us all with a 12.8. Yes, a stock SLK55 ran a 12.8. With slicks that thing has a mid 12 in it.

I didn't get any video of myself, but I got some of the guys.

2011-11-05_11-45-24_784.3gp - YouTube Victory for Steve
2011 11 05 11 49 11 929 - YouTube Steve solo run
2011 11 05 12 10 23 771 - YouTube Steve solo run
2011 11 05 12 13 33 375 - YouTube Steve slaughtering a VW
2011 11 05 12 19 25 154 - YouTube Nick 12.98 against John
2011 11 05 12 24 42 351 - YouTube Nick and John
2011 11 05 12 25 58 214 - YouTube Zach in Jeep SRT8
2011 11 05 13 26 35 789 - YouTube Steve victory
2011 11 05 13 38 34 586 - YouTube Steve getting served

 

Wow, that 116.82 MPH is very impressive! Congrats! I'll probably hit the track next Friday to see what I can do. Looking forward to Dec. 4th when AMX Jim with his SC V8 comes to Orlando and races with a few of us other members.

 

Looks like alot of fun.


Audio on (Steve gets served)..... "Never trust a truck driver or a carnie"..........lol

 

It's getting there, but unless I can get the A/F under control along with some negative DA, it's just not going to happen this year.

That sounds like a lot of fun. That's the kind of upgrade we all need.

 

Sometimes I get a little opinionated. My favorite part was when I said, "I don't like Steve". LMAO

 

SRT-6 at Dragstrip - YouTube Anthony's run
Anthony's parking - YouTube Anthony's parking ?

 

Thanks for uploading, Nick.

I'm an excellent parker.

 

Total blast today!!!

Clearly, I learned that I'm most at home with trail-braking, apexes, and kerbstones... The 6MT is simply not geared for 1/4 mile.

Nonetheless, got some great research/baseline to go off of for the turbo build coming up.


From there, it was basically lather, rinse, repeat.

14.837 @ 96.24
14.963 @ 94.32
14.872 @ 94.87
15.149 @ 95.88 (left TCS on... d'oh)
14.930 @ 94.46

My mods are in the sig... ran today at full street weight with 3/4 tank of gas, 30psi in the rear tires. All runs were done with a 3,500 RPM launch. Run #2 was my best R/T of .031 (!!!), run #3 was a 4,000 RPM launch and saw no improvement.

So, it's a solid 14.9 car, very repeatable. Having to shift at the 60' mark didn't help things... Traction was no issue (no power) so the 60' is as good as it gets with my current power level. Heat soak definitely affects the N/A cars as well, as I was down 2mph from the first run for the rest of the day.

Very impressed with the SLK55, it did the deed.

Anthony and Steve impressed as always. Anthony definitely gets the award for Mr. Consistent

As we learned today, the turbo project can't come a moment too soon.

 

when the camaro launched at about 4000 rpm i knew it was over for me!! best pass was 12.15 @ 114 but if you get some spin i can get a 12.2 @ 120 mph!! it was a solo run but man i was haulin the mail!

 

Here's a few more photos from the Cherokee SRT8 forum.

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Nick's SLK55 in action. Here's the link to buy it, Nick: PhotoReflect - Indie Images - Beech Bend Saturday November 5,2011

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