Best run was a 17.7 >>

I did beat a riced out lancer than ran an 18.8

Lost in the second round to a trans am

It was the types of racing where you use your dial in.

I'm really dissapointed, I thought it would atleast be a little faster

I forgot to add I did get a .088 reaction time which I am told is pretty good

It's a decent R/T, nothing great. I had a .44 R/T

Man, thats sad.. I would like to know what a st man would run.. Im guessing the same.. darn

manual st with 17's, short ram, my heavy sub box, and mad luggage

I'm going again to see what the car runs gutted......

DEF

This post has been edited by defgeph: Jul 17, 2004 - 11:53 AM

-Digndoug+Jul 17, 2004 - 10:09 AM

17 sec in a GT?.. i ran 16.6 @89mph when i had my GT...

I ran 16.9 in my GT. 4,400rpm launches ownz j00.

-SlowCelica94+Jul 17, 2004 - 11:05 AM

to you people in the 16's with your GT, was your car stock?

Its hard to believe a manual is almost an entire second faster than an automatic >>

-Andason+Jul 17, 2004 - 5:42 PM

um, only mods were as listed in my info. My rear struts are blown too, which can't help.

Never underestimate...

did you spray?

probbly not kwanza's car was fully engine built.

I ran 16s with intake and 2.5 straight pipe...trd wires..hahahha..
i dunno..running 16s was kinda embarassing

Kwanza does have probably the best non-swap/spray timeslip on the site. I'd assume that he's gotten better than that too, seeing as that slip has a 1.259 R/T.. mucho room for improvement. So it's safe to say he's in the 15's.

-Brian

-Ryu3x16+Jul 17, 2004 - 11:26 PM

so is there somethign wrong with my car?

i mean coomer said he got a 17.7 in an ST manual, does tranny make that much difference?

-CelicaSTX02+Jul 18, 2004 - 3:43 AM

r/t doesnt count in the 1/4 time. And as far as I know, kwanza's engine isnt built. His mods are listed in his info. Pretty much, he's just a genius who knows how to GET R DONE!

GIT R DONE! Larry the Cable Guy is a funny guy! Man I wanna take my car to the local track now. Just to see what my baby can do.

This post has been edited by canyonking: Jul 18, 2004 - 4:33 PM

No I didn't spray. The engine was refreshed a bit back in april or may (head cleaned up, minor gasket-match job, cleaned internals, injectors, fuel system... etc)... I forget exactly when, but it was during a headgasket job, which turned into a minor re-build (to fix a slight knock)... I was running pretty clean. My SAFC was also tuned on a smog machine (funny... but worked ok...) and my car is/was running fairly good (got some pinging at idle now). Motor is stock... only with bolt-ons and tuning. The tuning is what makes the big differences in this case.

As for the runs... 16 flat was the best I've ever run. I ran 3 or 4 times that day, and put it anywhere between 16.5 and 16.1... 16.0 was the first run I ran. Also, I was running slicks on some 15 inch Rotas in the front, and some ghetto 15 inch ADRs in the rear. I tested launches anywhere from 3500 rpms to 5000 rpms... The back of my car was stripped down, and my passenger seat was removed. I didn't weigh in that day, but I'd guesstimate around 2500 or so with me in the car. I weigh about 160-165 btw.

Finally... SlowCelica is correct about the r/t... The Reaction time measures your ability to race-launch your car and makes little difference towards your 1/4 mile time. The reason I had a bad reaction... the guy next to me was HELLA LOUD I couldn't hear shiat. I usually have fairly good reaction times (around .500 to .600... Sac raceway is on a .500 system)... the 60' time is what most accurately measures how good of traction you get off the line, and that is what makes the good runs. That is the reason why AWD cars can run such quick times. In my case... 1.8 60' was something I woulda never thought possible in a FF car... but there it is. My celica is now pretty much retired from the performance scene...

Man 16, thats pretty nice.. now does any one have some slips with any swaped engines??? like the 3s-ge, gte or 4age?? Thats what i would like to see

1.8 60" time? Wow. Amazing!

Slicks tho, I'm wondering what you'd run on street tires

I think celica3sgte posted a 14.2 with a stock 3sgte and traction problems.

This post has been edited by jgreening: Jul 18, 2004 - 6:38 PM

-SlowCelica94+Jul 18, 2004 - 11:29 PM

Best I've gotten so far was the week I bought my car I took it to the track. 17.7 bone stock no weight reductions and its a manual ST I guess thats pretty good for the ST then. Now I have 2.5 in piping to my muffler an air fuel chip and an intake so it may be quicker now. But also My mechanic said I am loosing mad compression so I dunno I need to get back out to the track. My best reaction time is .0251 by the way. on stock 14"s I dont know what my 17"s would do.

Matt

slow celica was that w/ or w/out the nitrous (im hopin w/ out)

w/o