New Best 1/4 mile

Installed some new parts on Keira so it was time to see the difference. I installed a TPI air foil which I didn't expect anything from and March under drive pulleys which made the engine feel a lot more responsive with better mid range.

I didn't improve as much as expected but consider my run had an average 60' and not the best trap speed with shitty gas, a 13.602 is a definite sign of improvement.

 

This car has some serious rubber!

And I started mocking up flares on Megan

New Best Time

Supposedly the L98 c4 is plagued with false knocks so at some point GM produced a replacement Knock Module that was less sensitive. Through some cross referencing online I found a new knock module for $30 from rockauto. Install took 30 seconds and then I decided to perform a very scientific test known as "seat-of-the-pants." In all honesty I thought it made the car worse. However my car consistently managed 100mph trap speeds at the track with shitty launches. Temps were slightly cooler then my other runs but its safe to say it didn't hurt the performance of the car.

My first launch being my only good one and best to date resulted in a new best time 13.675. Woot!

 

This car is awesome!!!! The aero body looked extremely well designed, nicely tight and compact too. Center lock wheels FTW. However I don't understand why this guy just sat in the pits tightening the odd bolts here and there and not even attempting to drive the car.

These guys just spent the evening hiding but there was plenty of nice cars on the track to provide apple action.

New 1/4 Mile Time

Set a new best 1/4 mile time this past Friday and new best mph. 13.8s and on a separate run a top speed of 101mph . New mods were light weight battery (-27lbs) and Z51 front lip.

FYI car in the left lane was a Jeep SRT8... damn!

At the end of this week I'm going to order a number of parts that most people probably wouldn't consider a performance mod. Hopefully we get some good results!

Ferrari's at Cayuga

Headed to TMP, Cayuga last week to get some more drag times with Kira.I didn't do to well as I never managed to hook up at the launch but did have some respectable trap speeds.

So I gave up for the day and decided to watch the cars on the circuit. 

Wow.... there was some terrific action going on and some awesome cars!

  

The Miata in the pic above was just barely hanging on with the Ferrari which is still very impressive.

 

This Evo was quickly in the 430's rear view just past this corner

Quarter Mile Baseline

I headed down to Toronto Motorsports Park this Friday and baseline'd Keira (85 vette). I'm happy with the results considering I did nothing to optimize the car for drag and didn't really do any fancy launches.

Best time and mph 13.913 @ 98.47mph

Mod List
-lowered all around
-slp cold air intake
-hedmen long tube headers
-egr delete pulley
-maf screen removal
-spare tire delete
-2.5" true duel ghetto exhaust with cats and borla mufflers. (no mandrel bends)
-17x9.5 295s front and 17x9.5 285s rear