Recent strip trip and?'s

[black99lightning]

Last time I was at the track in June I went 13.2x on most passes.  Heat will knock a few tenths off your passes.

[Courier6]

Not many SHO's would run 12 second 1/4's in those conditions. Livernois had a track day, I think it was the year before last with terrible heat and humidity, everyone was in the low to mid 13's. It makes a huge difference.

[geswek]

I agree with Courier; I'd never run 12.5 anywhere else--the drag strip in Maryland is like one of the bests. It was 60F when I ran and the DA was like 500 feet; was last year I went. I did the run with the original 93 octane tune that Livernois first came out with; I didn't have downpipes, 3-bar, or t-stat. I've not ran it with new mods yet; weather is horrible.

[southtxSHO]

Just got back from the San Antonio Speedway last night and got results not as good as I was hoping for =-(

I have a 2014 SHO non-pp with adaptive cruise, collision avoidance, lane keeping, 20" factory 10 spoke wheels etc. in White with (weight with me in the car 4520 - I am 220 of that): Has dropped H&R springs installed,

Tune is:
Livernois: 3 bar 93 oct tune with catted down pipes and thermostat with re-gaped plugs

The post down pipe exhaust is still stock.


Times were all 13.2x between 13.21 and 13.26, plenty faster than some of the other cars that showed up =-)

Seems it should be faster maybe?? Not really sure where it should of fallen out at this point.

Times seem about right for the weather conditions . I run 13.10s all night in 85 degree weather at the Edinburg Raceway .

[SHOnUup]

Come visit michigan in the fall for those good times!!!

[TooFast4SHO]

I will go with I am right where I need to be...

The other SHO that was there that was two tenths faster must of been a freak, The guy did not even know if it was a PP or not....

[SHOnUup]

Those 60' times are a full tenth if not 2 tenths behind your mods. Bet a CAI with some recent modifications and you get some cooler air into those turbos at the line.

My 3 bar tune from lms reads...4+x TS 3 bar...pretty straight forward I think with the 4+x being the strongest canned tune compared to a 4 or 4+, TS = Tstat, and so on.

[boostedbull]

I agree.... it is in your 60' time.  It seems like these cars are easy to drive fast but there is a technique to launching them properly.  You have to find the sweet spot with your car.  Next time try launching at different rpm.  If you only chirped the tires at launch you can probably raise your rpm a little bit.  My best times were launching at around 2200 rpm.  I would spin a bit all the way through first gear but was pulling low 1.8 - high 1.7 60' times.  This translated to 13.05's (couldn't get that extra 5 hundredths) in the 1/4.  My car is basic tune only.

[steve142857]

Adjusted 12.85 is what to be expected. Livernois offers a good tune for the 13-14 SHOs, but not as aggressive as the 2010-2012's. The more recent SHO, stock for stock, are a bit faster than the 2010-2012... But, when tuned, even with the addiotion of downpipes and PP, my 2013 isn't faster than my 2010.
I thought with the most recent tune update (V8 ?), I could lower my times, but no, it went the opposite.
So, Livernois still needs to tweek it a bit, unless they are not comfortable tuning them more aggressive to preserve their solid track record of zero fails.
So, as I said, 12.8's, maybe 12.7's with better traction is good. Then an Xpipe with 2.5'' exhaust will cut you another tenth or two. Next step would be methanol to go low 12's. After that, we depend on the tuning.
Good luck!

[Josephm]

One of the down falls to the MYCAL is you can not log. If you could log, you could see what was going on with the car IE timing being pulled/added, boost, afr-- etc