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Old 08-31-2006, 04:32 PM
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The first thing out of the tech guys mouth was about arm restraints. I told him we would not be very fast (little did I know) and talked him into 3 runs. I know, shame on me for running 5. He didn't say anything about the roll bar and Kelly had on a short sleeved shirt.

The grove track may very well be stickier and my problem in more likely getting used to the limited slip vs the old open diff. Kinda like raw horsepower vs turbo lag. Sorry Arcy, I couldn't resist.

The only time I hit the rev-limiter was at the last trap trying not to shift to 4th. Frankly I don't know which is better since you loose time with both. I tried to hit all my shifts between 5500 and 6000. The limiter is set to 6400. The last run with the Z06 I spun 1st and grabbed 2nd early at the 60' or so and then went sideways. I backed off just a little and drove into it so it didn't turn out too bad, but again lost time to traction or rather lack of.

I didn't want to spend the money on drag radials and rims, but it looks like I will have to if I want any better times.
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