About .2 to .3 improvement
Do you want to sell your old tires!?!?!?
Mark "Flyboy" Kuzia
99 Dakota Sport 5.2L, 5-speed, 3.92-SG
14.896 @ 90.57 mph (2.072 60 ft)
flyboy01@worldnet.att.net
http://home.att.net/~flyboy01/
-----Original Message-----
From: Bob Tom <tigers@bserv.com>
To: dakota-truck@buffnet.net <dakota-truck@buffnet.net>
Date: Friday, October 08, 1999 8:05 AM
Subject: Re: DML: Broke into the 14's for the first time!
|At 10:39 PM 10/7/99 -0400, you wrote:
|> <SNIP>
|>I am currently trying to get a set of taller tires to try and get my mph
|>back to 92 to 93 mph range. I have been in the 90 mph range since I
|>installed the 295/50R15's. Right now I'm crossing the finnish line over
the
|>redline. <SNIP> I did manage to get the best 60 ft time ever, 2.07.
|>Mark "Flyboy" Kuzia
|
|Congrats, Mark! Any idea how much the Hypertech cut your ETs in
uncorrected
|times and what was the weather like when you ran?
|
|I'm sure that you know that, by going to taller tires on the rear, you may
|also
|increase your ETs. The DML tire calculator says that, with your 295/50s,
your
|effective gear ratio is 4.12. Boy, those must be wide tires. I gather
you're
|running a different size up front.
|
|I have the opposite problem. With the 3.55SG, auto. and 28" drag radials,
|I'm going through the traps at a tick over 4000 rpm but my peak HP is
|around 4800 rpm
|with a redline at about 5600 rpm. I'll be switching to 26" drag radials
next
|week and hope it'll give me more track to break into the 14s. I'm pretty
sure
|that I can do 15.1s (a brisk headwind kept my pb to 15.234). With the 28",
|my effective gear ratio is about 3.50 ... with the 26", it'll be about
3.80.
|Hoping it'll be enough so that I can reach my goal.
|
|Congrats again!
|
|Bob, Burlington, Ontario
|'97 FR CC Sport, 5.2L, 3.55 SG, auto., 15.234 @ 87.26
|
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