I'm wondering how many Car/Truck guys there are on DP. After some of you chime in I plan on asking a few questions on what you want out of an automotive site. The domain is www.redlightdrag.com So far the site when launched will be about my personal race car, friends, my fathers, it will have latest news on the biggest races (indy 500, lemans...) street racing, power guides, safety/regulations Let me know how many of you there are and go ahead and tell me what you would like out of an automotive racing site.
awesome, I gave it a quick view (i'm at work) i'll have to check it out further later. I'm not planning on a forum, there is far more competition and content is harder to come by as members will be few and far between for quite some time. My 400hp S-10 is fixing to be up and running again, then I'm building a '48 GMC pickup with a LS1 in it. Once the '48 is running I'll be tearing out the 355 I have, making it a 383 stroker roller motor. I plan to supercharge the 383, tub the rear put my ford 9" in. 22" slicks. Should be getting close to 700hp within the next 1.5-2 years. My goal right now is an 11 second quarter, but my long term is 1000hp straight motor on forced induction, no nitrous.
i have an 89 civic hatch with a b18b swap and a 60 trim turbo. i am aiming for around 350 for hp. personally i think thats some impressive power for a 1.8L 4 cyl.
350 in a 1.8l is very nice.. considering it comes stock with probably less than 120. ever taken it on a track?
no, im actually hoping to finish her all up this week and maybe hit the track once this summer. the closest 1/4 is over 2 hours from my house. i have an 1/8th within an hour, but i dont think its as fun.
I would think that a 700HP motor would get you into the 11s easy, as long as you have a decent suspension, some traction and know how to drive it. My 400HP motor has me real close to the 11s (12.20s right now through the mufflers). A bigger cam or a set of aluminum heads would put me around 11.50. {edit} Forgot to add my car sites. ;-) My "vanity" site is www.BurwoodBoysRacing.com. Pretty much just about my car. My latest car site is www.SuperStockHemis.com.
The car with the intercooler and the turbo manifold and ill try and snap a few pics this week of the inside.
I run a few automotive forums http://www.highaltitudeimports.com http://www.automotivearena.com (three others that are undergoing updates) For a car I drive a 2005 C6 Corvette. No mods yet, but next month the APS twin turbo's go on
Here's my ride... This is from Englishtown last weekend: Any of you guys with automotive sites interested in doing a link exchange?
lets see if this pic shows up got a bunch of other pics here http://www.highaltitudeimports.com/gallery/showgallery.php/cat/500/ppuser/2
well I plan to run 11's at 5800 ft. elevation can do some terrible things to a cars power. So where I'm at now in oklahoma I'm sure a 2800 lb 700hp s-10 will get me below 11's, but in Denver Colorado at a higher elevation will require more.
are you on highaltitudeimports.com? We all race up at bandimere which i'm sure is where you go. I drove a Turbocharged 99 Civic SI up there for a couple years, then had a 2002 GTI 1.8T (as my screen name suggests)
At 0 feet elevation you'd only need 325 RWHP to run an 11.99. With 700 HP at the flywheel you'd run a 9.74 at 0 feet. NHRA's correction tables for Denver (5800 feet) say to multiply the ET by 1.0633, so you'd wind up with a 10.35. Still not bad!
The correction charts don't work for turbocharged cars though since the wastegate is able to make up for some of the atmospheric pressure differences. An N/A car loses about a second and a half up here, but a turbocharged car FAR less. (i've made over 100 passes up here). My GTI for example was running almost identical times to the sea level guys with similar mods. As long as the turbo is inside its efficiency island you are good up here. (superchargers lose as much as N/A cars since they are driven off the engine here)
Right, and he was talking about running 11.99 with 700 HP from a supercharged car. Those turbo cars always bug me out, I hate racing them. I think I've got them covered until about half track when they suddenly appear next to me sounding like a vacuum cleaner... I watched a turbo truck last week that looked like it was on a 15 second pass, then around half track it took off and wound up deep in the 9s. Crazy! ;-)
lol, sorry I didn't read the part about the car in question being supercharged. Valid point then Small displacement turbo cars are the hardest to gauge. I remember racing a supra a couple months back with a HUGE T78 single turbo. I was killing him up toward the top of second gear, then he took off like a jet . Up here a turbo is the only way to go. I've kicked around the idea of supercharging my car for a few months, but there isn't much of a price difference, and the turbo's give you such an advantage at elevation.
nah' man I'm talkin about running a low 11 with a 700hp s10. The other guy wants a 11.99.. I'm not sure of your automotive background but once you get into the mid 11's it gets very hard to get better. Getting to an 11/12 is easy, it's getting from a low 11 to a low 10 that gets hard. A guy I know has a 527 HP WS6 firebird that runs mid 12's at Bandimere and can run in the 10's at sea level. Every vehicle is different, don't buy too much into those conversion and guestulators.. They'll just dissapoint you in the end. Also why do you say those times? I mean you must have guessed.. there's no way of telling until I run it. Torque is what matters, what transmission i'm using, what rear end, my suspension setup, the overall weight, my weight distribution, there are hundreds of factors so guessing just won't really do it. I plan to run in the 10's in OK and low 11.0-11.3 in Bandimere. I've seen brand new Z06 corvettes only turn down a mid-14 at Bandimere constantly. It's hard to run there.. it's a tough track.