SpeedFactory '09 Vitara D16 build - Page 10

Mr. Kit · 07-09-2009, 09:39 PM

Originally Posted by Big Tuna

Make some passes

x2

JFK78 · 07-10-2009, 12:44 AM

Well, we've been doing what we can to get ready to hit the track since I got talked to for not having my NHRA competition license last year.

This week we got the cage certified, I completed my physical, and bought the required upgraded SFI-5 driving suit and gloves. This stuff is majorly expensive guys! $200 to get the cage cert'd, $75 for the physical, $100 for the NHRA competition license, $130 for the NHRA membership, and $500-1800 for the suit, gloves, and neck collar depending on what you get.

You gotta pay big to play big, and it sucks!

There is a chance that we may get to the track tomorrow evening to do my licensing passes, if we can handle the workload at the shop fast enough. We'll see how it goes, no promises though.

Evans Performance · 07-10-2009, 09:09 AM

thats good stuff. what time/speed is all of that required?

Big Tuna · 07-10-2009, 09:16 AM

Originally Posted by JFK78

This week we got the cage certified, I completed my physical, and bought the required upgraded SFI-5 driving suit and gloves. This stuff is majorly expensive guys! $200 to get the cage cert'd, $75 for the physical, $100 for the NHRA competition license, $130 for the NHRA membership, and $500-1800 for the suit, gloves, and neck collar depending on what you get.

That safety shit is a mofo, people dont realize you can easy have 4000-5000 in just safety stuff between cage, belts, license bs, helmet, suit, gloves, pants, neck collar, chassis cert, window net ect.

Good luck,!

Mr. Kit · 07-10-2009, 10:18 AM

I´ll keep myself out of NHRA, lol

mcr00ex · 07-10-2009, 08:57 PM

13 second car sounds cheaper then a 9 second car!!! AHAHAHAHAH

JFK78 · 07-12-2009, 05:01 PM

Update:

So we rushed to close up shop Fri evening and got to the track 1.5 hrs before they closed. Then I couldn't do my licensing passes because we forgot to put the tranny blanket back on in the rush to get to the track!

They let me make a few runs though. Very few people there, 85-90* out, track prep wasn't very good, waterbox was so bad I couldn't even do a proper burnout.

We left the bone stock Z6 tranny in the car for the shakedown runs, so I wasn't expecting anything amazing timewise since it's open diff and the gearing doesn't match the setup at all, plus the fact it's an all new setup that'll need some bugs worked out.

As usual there were a few small issues with the new progressive shift light that we are trying geeking out (you can see it in the videos geeking out the whole time), and with the FTS causing the car to bog horribly on the shifts. So we just turned off the FTS, I ignored the new shift light and lift shifted instead of full-throttle shifting it on the last 2 runs.

I got 2 decent passes in right as they were closing. 10.5, 10.6 @ 136-137mph, shifting to 4th ~50ft before the line. We are very happy with the times considering the bad track prep, bad burnouts, and spinning all through 1st & 2nd with the stupid tall 3rd gear dropping the car out of the powerband and taking me the entire length of the track, then hitting limiter in 3rd trying to avoid the shift to 4th. Boost dropped to ~22psi on the shift to 3rd then gradually climbed to 25psi at 8500-9500rpm.

The last pass (10.6) I was all crooked in the burnout box and the car went sideways immediately so I didn't get a real burnout. I tried to launch a little less agressively thinking it was gonna blow the tires off, and it bogged instead. That run would've been a 10.4 otherwise.

All in all it went within a hair of last years best runs being peg-legged with horrid gearing and track conditions, so I'm super happy with it.

With what we saw, the car is definitely going to run low 10's no problem, with 9's in reach. Once we get the good tranny in the car and have a decently prepped track, the times are going to drop dramatically.

Here's the in-car vid: