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Well I took the Bullitt to the Orlando tonight. Needless to say I am very disappointed. I have had fast cars and done a lot of street racing in the past, but never been down an actual drag strip (Don't ask me why). It was typical Florida weather, about 85, humid and the track was like ice. But after reading JB Vobra's post, there is no excuse for this.
I pulled the car in after the 45 mile trek to the strip and made the pass soon after. I surprised myself cutting a .617 light. 60' was 2.31. My dumbass shortshifted 2nd and proceeded to light them up. 1/8 mile was 9.72 (laugh away) 1/4 mile 14.92 @94.01 (I let off before the traps :sad: ) Figured it couldn't get much worse.
But it did. Second and last run of the evening, the car had about 30 minutes to cool off. Got ready to do a little tire cleaning in the burnout box and had to wait for them to clean a little fluid off the track. I shut the car down while waiting. Cranked it back up, went to powerbrake a little and the car grabbed and felt like it was hooking. Got to the line, redlighted (.470) 60' was 2.40 spun but stopped, felt like the car was down on power, shortshift again. Ran through at a identical 14.92 @ 95.9, at which time I looked down to see the traction control was on
They had already closed the staging lanes so I didn't get to run again. Probably a good thing.
It wasn't pretty. A fellow Mustang owner came up to me asking about it. I was so embarrassed. I told him about the 14.92 and he says "thats not bad, my Cobra just ran 15.0's so I parked it". A GT owner told me the best he could muster was a 14.95 all night. Apparently the track was **** tonight. But there is no excuse for this.
I will try it again, but can't imagine being able to get the Goodyears to ever hook.
I pulled the car in after the 45 mile trek to the strip and made the pass soon after. I surprised myself cutting a .617 light. 60' was 2.31. My dumbass shortshifted 2nd and proceeded to light them up. 1/8 mile was 9.72 (laugh away) 1/4 mile 14.92 @94.01 (I let off before the traps :sad: ) Figured it couldn't get much worse.
But it did. Second and last run of the evening, the car had about 30 minutes to cool off. Got ready to do a little tire cleaning in the burnout box and had to wait for them to clean a little fluid off the track. I shut the car down while waiting. Cranked it back up, went to powerbrake a little and the car grabbed and felt like it was hooking. Got to the line, redlighted (.470) 60' was 2.40 spun but stopped, felt like the car was down on power, shortshift again. Ran through at a identical 14.92 @ 95.9, at which time I looked down to see the traction control was on
It wasn't pretty. A fellow Mustang owner came up to me asking about it. I was so embarrassed. I told him about the 14.92 and he says "thats not bad, my Cobra just ran 15.0's so I parked it". A GT owner told me the best he could muster was a 14.95 all night. Apparently the track was **** tonight. But there is no excuse for this.
I will try it again, but can't imagine being able to get the Goodyears to ever hook.