Thread: Ran my Ve'd NX last night. **Update 10/19/08 13.375**

13.3 on slicks or still on the drag radials? A 1.9 short time is nice especially if it was on radials.

He was on drag radials.

There was also a headwind of about 15mph, even more later in the day - the flag on the tower was straight out.
I'm sure the trap speed would have been higher without the wind.

Damn a 1.9 short time on radials in nice. track must be prepped good.

I must agree. 1.9 on radials is crazy, almost hard to believe lol. Good job!

Ya, I'm running 205/50-14 drag radials on NX wheels. I actually pulled a 1.880 60' on one of my runs.

The best 60' I had last time was a 2.0. I noticed in my vids that my rear squatted pretty good on my launches so I bought some 2.5" spring spacers for my rear springs. They were a little too tall to fit in between my coils so I cut them down a bit with my air saw just enough so they would squeeze in while the rear of the car was in the air. That is the only thing I did different. I'm thinking that they helped a lot, idk.

Are you using an aftermarket LSD?

Yeah your rear was dipping way to much. 1.9 60ft's arent really hard with an N/A SR20, drag radials and some practice. Rev up dump clutch and go...just dont rev it to high cause even DR's will spin on just a DE dumped to high.

hell thats how i launched on slicks when my car was turbod the only difference i see thats going to make it challenging to launch on the VE on slicks is the fact im not going to have a rev limiter, on the turbo running the 22X8X15 m/t's @10psi air pressure i would stage, rev to like 4k feather the clutch out to preload the drivtrain, once the tree went down i would punch the gas to the floor and quickly feather/dump the clutch while launching on the rev limiter, this equated to a 1.81 60ft my first try, i heated up the slicks better still not great and pulled a 1.71 60ft the next launch same method.

I guess what im gonna have to do is just rev up to 7500-8k, preload, and just partial throttle launch at that, well sort of, punch it right as i dump the clutch, or i could rev it to 4k, preload and try again as the tree falls just punch the gas and time the dump as the revs jump to 8k that would make for a climbing rev full throttle launch. I will have to play with it, but either way a 1.7 60ft will easily be had. Ive pretty much got the hang of the slicks.

Oh and btw the suspension makes a hell of a difference too. your first vids the back did squat way too much, all this does is cause weight transfer to the back and you dont want that at all. I have GC coilover and i love them. the back doesnt dip down at all. if you watch my old vids on slicks of me launching you will see this. even my 1.7 60ft the back end didnt dip at all. Keeps all the weight, what little there is on the front tires. Good job man, those are good 60ft times on drag radials, average person usually pulls 2.0 so either the track is very well prepped which im assuming so and your have it down

^His launch is sick. Looks like he has a lot of practice.



^Wow..........Just watched all the VIDS. The car moves! Gotta love the VE.

straight nasty launching and react times dude!!